This is one of the most iconic songs from the 80's. They came out from England and many bands had that particular sound, that production style that immediately bring you back to those years.
I arrived in the US in 1986 from France. First thing I did when I walk up the stairs from the subway station in Manhattan, was to blast this song in my walkman and looked up the highrise buildings of the city!!! I never left 😊
I believe the "sound" you're recognizing was nicknamed either "British Synth-Pop" or "Electropop." It was dominated by Duran Duran, but qualifiers include: Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode, Thompson Twins, A Flock of Seagulls, Spandau Ballet, Bananarama, Culture Club, The Eurythmics, Simple Minds, Wham!, the Psychadelic Furs, and Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark."
I've seen them recently and their just as good as they were back in the day. Roland Orzabal has long gray hair & still plays like he did. Curt Smith has short gray hair & can belt out their song's like he did when he was young. Love these guy's. They came out in 1981,from Bath.
Great band with an extensive playlist and they still sound great live. Saw them in Austin last year and they blew the roof off the place. The band that most sounds like, to my ears, is Talk Talk. They had a huge hit with It's My Life, which Gwen Stefani did an excellent cover of and well worth adding to your reaction list if you haven't covered them yet.
Shout and Mad World are my favorites. My kids remember me turning up radio or MTV. They’re in late 30s- early 40’s. Amazing Tears for Fears is one they remember. Lol
Here's a fun little story: "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" is a line from the 1980 Clash song "Charlie Don't Surf." Joe Strummer of The Clash thought that Tears for Fears took the line from this song. He recounted a story to Musician magazine about confronting Roland Orzabal in a restaurant, informing Orzabal that "you owe me a fiver." Strummer said that Roland reached in his pocket and produced a five pound note, ostensibly as compensation for poaching the line for his hit title. 🤩
Big fan of Tears for Fears!🔥 I love the 80s music and this particular type also reminded me of Mr Mister with “Broken Wings”, Don Henley with “The Boys of Summer” and Night Ranger with “Sister Christian”.🔥🔥🔥
You should check out the Live versions of Rule the World and Shout from 2007 in Belgium (Night of the Prom). They are performing with a packed full Orchestra on stage. Sounds Awesome! Roland and Curt were 23 in 1985 and their voices 2day still sound great! Check out their new album The Tipping Point. Released in 2022. Still will recognize the Tears for Fears sound of the 80's but they updated their music in the new album to today's times. No Small Thing, The Tipping Point, and End of Night are great!
The New Wave sound or the second British Invasion. Duran Duran, TFF, Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, Human League, Pet Shop Boys all came out around the same time and had similar sounds.
This song reminds me of a funny story. My little brother loved this song when it was in the charts (he was about 15) and when our dad was going into town he asked him to get him the vinyl single. Silly man. He came back with We Are The World 😂😂😂A couple of years before dad had asked Vince what he wanted for his birthday and he asked for an Elvis LP. He got Elton John, so he knew dad had previous for being an idiot 😁
When they wrote this album, I remember they said that they both had less than perfect upbringing or parents and therefore it is a very personal album and attention should be paid to the lyrics
I came from this era and it was called.new romantics. Boys and girls wore makeup. We dressed up in dresses from the 1950s and anything went very glamorous. Human league, midge ure, Gary Numan. They are all having a revival this year in the UK. Just seen Gary Numan last week, going to book to see the other's later in the year. New romantic never made it in America. The music yes but not the dressing up. We were unique. All sythicisors in the music, took it to a new level.
❤Love this band's entire catalog. They are referring to World Leaders wanting to rule the world. It is not enough just to rule their own people and country......they want to make everyone think like them and that is why there will always be war, oppression, genocide and fighting. It is happening in our own country. It is the opposite of live and let live. 🌍🕊❤✌ I don't want to kill the vibe so......the sound you are picking up on is part of the 80s British Groups known as the 2nd British Invasion. The first Invasion was of course in the 60s lead by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Animals, The Who and many more.
What you’re picking up on is it’s early 80s music especially from Europe that’s what you’re hearing. I believe I was a DJ back in those days mobile Dj.
I have had a positive take on this song. I interpret it as a positive feeling of ambition. I would feel inhibited by “this indecision married with a lack of vision.” The part I am a bit uncertain about is “best behavior”. I’d like to think it refers to acting on one’s best behavior being opposed to one’s natural instincts towards seeking their paradise.
You were very close!!! Depeche Mode had a big hit with Enjoy the Silence. It's the synth's that give you that connection. But, I'd label Tears For Fears as much more Pop than Depeche Mode. They were straight up New Wave/Electronica.
Thanks for reacting....brings back memories of watching 80s MVs on MTV with my daughter. She was in 5th-6th grade back then...we both loved Tears for Fears, among other great 80s music/groups. They have a lot of great tracks mentioned in the comments that I hope you'll discover further. Sadly, not many folks in my circle share the same feeling about 80s music which is kind of sad. Could you react to Robert Palmer's rendition of Marvin Gayes' "Mercy, Mercy Me/I Want You"....from 1991. Link: m.ua-cam.com/video/_hX06ajVGHg/v-deo.html His 85 song around the same time as Tears for Fears, was "Addicted to Love".... cheesey or not...but "catchy" none the less....link: m.ua-cam.com/video/XcATvu5f9vE/v-deo.html Thanks again for this reaction. 👍😊
They are brilliant writers, musicians, producers, composers, they have worked on so many other projects. You're right, they are very intelligent ! Sooo underrated!!
It was the 80s. We enjoyed what we were given. Radio, stereo systems, walkmans and music television was it. No Internet, smart phones or streaming services. It was a simpler time when we enjoyed some of the best music in history, along with what came before. I'm not knocking anything after the 80s, but the 90s began to usher in the Net, and everything started to become a blur with instant information and gratification. It seems like we had more time to realize who we were back then. But all will be well. Every generation faces its obstacles.
So very well stated. Grew up same era, and it's crazy looking back how much we took for granted. Especially when you put it in the context of how the 90s ushered in the Net and new communication technology. Gone were the innocent days of braving a germ-filled Phone booth receiver to call Mom to let her know you were ok, and would be home soon lol. How quickly time seemed to fly by. I looked up one day, and there were pagers, then mobile phones, and Windows. And while I welcomed in a lot of that new technology with open arms, t's so nice to know that we can go back to this proverbial time machine and relive that old nostalgic feeling of 80's music on a place called UA-cam. Yes, all is well... 🥰
@@thewarrior5486 "Every generation faces its obstacles." Word! Not only that, but we've survived all of those changes...a little bruised, but still not broken. Peace out! ✌😎
The first two lines of this song pretty much sum up the human experience: "Welcome to you life. There's no turning back." The song is about wanting to have more control over our own lives.
Curt Smith, the song's lead singer, said the themes were "quite serious - it's about everybody wanting power, about warfare and the misery it causes." "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" was first released on 22 March 1985 through Phonogram, Mercury and Vertigo Records as the third single from Songs from the Big Chair.
This song is about the lunacy of the 1980s policy of mutually assured destruction of the arms race. Our generation thought we would never see the year 2000. The verse that says " there's a room where the lights won't find you, holding hands while walls come tumbling down, when they do I 'll be right behind you, so glad we almost made it, so sad they had to fade it, everybody wants to rule the world." The message we took from this song then was enjoy life while you can ❤
yea, that "so glad we almost made it. so sad they had to fade it" right there. Fade it out with nuclear winter. But everyone was so sure nuclear extinction was just around the corner. If we only knew what was coming in the mid 2020's.
when you don't have power, most people are chill. But when you give even a chill person power, 99% will trip. Power is a drug that very few individuals can handle.
Everybody's "decade" in their opinion was the best. Mine was late 60's , 70's my Mom's was post war Benny Goodman, Glen Miller..the big bands and "swing" which I like alot too...
@@Cchan53 So true! Us old ones have it made! After all...we got to live through ALL of those decades of change, and all the great music that came with it. Peace! ✌😎
Depeche Mode Naked Eyes, Tears For Fears ,Flock Of Seagulls, The Fix...and more all came out of Britain in the same decade. Things became less heavy for the most part, more poppy and synthesized but still good...I owned all music from these groups.
One of the final lines in the song - "So glad we almost made it. So sad they had to fade it" is a reference to when they were in the studio with a previous album. I believe it was the song 'Shout', and the record execs were telling them in the studio that the song would be a failure unless they faded the end 5 seconds earlier. They refused to compromise over such a ridiculous request... and on the next album, when writing this song, they made a subtle sarcastic comment about that situation, because Shout had become their best performing song. Looking back with that info from the band themselves.... I do believe this entire song was inspired more from a viewpoint that the record label was trying to control their music, their vision, and their direction. Everyone should be in charge of their own lives, and I think this song is a critique of the entities in this world that strive to control all of our lives.
I remember walking down the hallway on the last day of school, 5 teenage girls, arms linked, singing this song. I know everyone probably thinks it, but we really had the best music and the best generation. No smart phones, no pagers, news was on 2x a day or in the newspaper so we only really heard the "big" stuff. We got to be young, and grow up with an innocence that is impossible today.
Love Tears for Fears!! They have mad bangers but Sowing the seeds of love, Shout, and Head over heels are a few of their more popular songs! Definitely listen to more!!
The songs of my teen years. Tears for Fears were unique. This song fits with that "cruising with the top down" vibe. Their song "Shout" was another hit & definitely a "stop & sing along" song.
Your comparison to Depeche Mode (and INXS?) is spot on. “Head over Heels” has a great sound too but is totally different. Try Joe Jackson’s “stepping out” for vibes in this family.
Tears for fears are amazing, and their songs have deep meaning. Few of their song: Shout, sowing the seeds of love, pale shelter, mad world, woman in chain.
I've always felt that Neil Taylor's solo at the end is one of the greatest outro solos ever recorded. The note choices and structure are, indeed, sublime.
A lot of 80s music is exactly like this... It has the hook, It has a vibe. It feels like an anthem. It makes you want to move your body.... Then the actual lyrics hit you like a drop kick of "WTF was that?" Deep lessons in a sweet package.
Yes New Wave ,that's what it was called and although growing up as a teen in the late 60's I embraced all decades of music to come ...some good some not so good...80's was cool yes...
This will forever be a song of summer for me... the same way that as soon as I start hearing Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer" I start thinking about the end of summer... the end of the good times. This song hits me as a build up to summer in the opposite way.
I actually hope BP will react to some Don Henley songs (as well as the solo work of the other Eagles members). Boys of Summer, All She Wants to do is Dance, etc. from Henley would be good.
I was a teenager in the 80’s. This was a banger back then and hopefully still..oh well. Love this band and showed how much chill we had and just as teens engulfed Ourselves in the Music of the Times! 80’s were the Best
Depeche Mode, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure, Electronic - all new wave groups that used primarily synth (with a few exceptions) Tears For Fears is one of those bands that does embrace synth from the same era, but crossed over to more radio main stream... much like Duran Duran did. I think the 'common' sound you hear is the instrumentation..... back in the early days of synth, there as a few main keyboard manufacturers, and a limited collection of sounds you could generate. Some artists were innovating new sounds (like Phil Collins developing the 80's unique 'gated drum' technique of modulating the sound a drum made). As the decade went on, more and more variety was heard, as computers and synth just exploded... but the early 80's did have a more homogenous sound overall. FYI, the drums on this song use Phil's 'gated' technique, and all through the 80's it was overused, lol.
yeah it was a specific sound from a specific time. I loved it even though by the time this came out I was already an older guy who didn't listen that much to popular music anymore.
These guys are top notch. Their hits are great but they were/are not just another 80's band. A lot of depth to their catalog and their compositions are phenomenal.
This is one of the most iconic songs from the 80's. They came out from England and many bands had that particular sound, that production style that immediately bring you back to those years.
next up: "Shout" & "Seeds of love" & "Mad World" & "Head over heels" & "Woman in chains". Some of the greatest hits in my youth.
And mothers talk
And Pale Shelter!
Seeds of Love is an absolute banger
And live in L.A. "The Year of the Knife", "Badman's Song"
Agree, all great songs, love shout 😊🇬🇧
Tears for Fears are one of the most underrated Bands to have come out of the UK..awesome music.. meaningful songs ..and still relevant to today
My son is 10 and this is his FAVORITE song. Listens to it multiple times a week and knows every word.
"I can't stand this indecision married with a lack of vision" - One of the most profound statements EVER put to music!!
They are so awesome in concert! One of my faves.
My Mom's favorite 80's song. RIP. 😎❤
Its a GOOD song! 💯
I arrived in the US in 1986 from France. First thing I did when I walk up the stairs from the subway station in Manhattan, was to blast this song in my walkman and looked up the highrise buildings of the city!!! I never left 😊
"Mothers Talk" and "Working Hours" and "Pale Shelter" are great TFF songs.
and they sound even better today
Great Song from the best Music Decade 😊
I believe the "sound" you're recognizing was nicknamed either "British Synth-Pop" or "Electropop." It was dominated by Duran Duran, but qualifiers include: Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode, Thompson Twins, A Flock of Seagulls, Spandau Ballet, Bananarama, Culture Club, The Eurythmics, Simple Minds, Wham!, the Psychadelic Furs, and Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark."
I've seen them recently and their just as good as they were back in the day.
Roland Orzabal has long gray hair & still plays like he did.
Curt Smith has short gray hair & can belt out their song's like he did when he was young. Love these guy's. They came out in 1981,from Bath.
Great band with an extensive playlist and they still sound great live. Saw them in Austin last year and they blew the roof off the place. The band that most sounds like, to my ears, is Talk Talk. They had a huge hit with It's My Life, which Gwen Stefani did an excellent cover of and well worth adding to your reaction list if you haven't covered them yet.
Great music!!! Love this era, my high school days all coming back to me.
Shout and Mad World are my favorites. My kids remember me turning up radio or MTV. They’re in late 30s- early 40’s. Amazing Tears for Fears is one they remember. Lol
In the headspace of the 80's, these lyrics were totally in sync with the times.
SE also Nena - 99 Red Balloons
This song is also featured on „For all mankind“
yet another musically ambitious and lyrically thoughtful set of artists from the 80s... made you move and made you think
it was called "new wave" simular the music of Iron Maiden, Saxon and so on was called "the new wave of british heavy metal" (NWOBH)
Here's a fun little story: "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" is a line from the 1980 Clash song "Charlie Don't Surf." Joe Strummer of The Clash thought that Tears for Fears took the line from this song. He recounted a story to Musician magazine about confronting Roland Orzabal in a restaurant, informing Orzabal that "you owe me a fiver." Strummer said that Roland reached in his pocket and produced a five pound note, ostensibly as compensation for poaching the line for his hit title. 🤩
Big fan of Tears for Fears!🔥 I love the 80s music and this particular type also reminded me of Mr Mister with “Broken Wings”, Don Henley with “The Boys of Summer” and Night Ranger with “Sister Christian”.🔥🔥🔥
Saw these guys live a few years ago. They’ve still got it 🔥🤩
This one of my fav 80 song. ❤
You should check out the Live versions of Rule the World and Shout from 2007 in Belgium (Night of the Prom). They are performing with a packed full Orchestra on stage. Sounds Awesome! Roland and Curt were 23 in 1985 and their voices 2day still sound great! Check out their new album The Tipping Point. Released in 2022. Still will recognize the Tears for Fears sound of the 80's but they updated their music in the new album to today's times. No Small Thing, The Tipping Point, and End of Night are great!
The New Wave sound or the second British Invasion. Duran Duran, TFF, Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, Human League, Pet Shop Boys all came out around the same time and had similar sounds.
Se tem Tears for Fears, eu já compareço ❤❤❤❤❤❤. Amooo
And they still sound amazing today!
Shout was a banger, this one was good too
Think that sound you were talking about was a duet named Wham. TFF and Wham came on the scene almost together
It’s the sound of the 80’s
U2
Duran duran
INXS
Frankie goes to Hollywood
Kajagoogoo
Soft Cell
Human league
Simple minds
etc etc and many more, it's the 80's vibe
nothing is more common than the desire to be special.
There were a lot of groups back then that sounded similar due to the use of electronic keys and synths used.
New subscriber here you’re playing all all the songs in my high school days. Love it.
Woman in chains! The most amazing performance/ song
this is one of my vinyl copies that fills the entire room. wonderful production.
Great song, was featured in an 80's movie "Real Genius" starring a young Val Kilmer. Enjoy 😊
This song reminds me of a funny story. My little brother loved this song when it was in the charts (he was about 15) and when our dad was going into town he asked him to get him the vinyl single. Silly man. He came back with We Are The World 😂😂😂A couple of years before dad had asked Vince what he wanted for his birthday and he asked for an Elvis LP. He got Elton John, so he knew dad had previous for being an idiot 😁
I love the Astin Martin in the video.
This song was #1 for 1985..❤
When they wrote this album, I remember they said that they both had less than perfect upbringing or parents and therefore it is a very personal album and attention should be paid to the lyrics
That backbeat is “The way you make feel” From MJ
Tears For Fears released this song in 1985 , MJ released The Way You Make Me Feel in 1987 so yeah he borrowed the beat.
Quintessential theme of the 80's.
A lot of artists during this time used similar synthesizers and drum machines
I came from this era and it was called.new romantics. Boys and girls wore makeup. We dressed up in dresses from the 1950s and anything went very glamorous. Human league, midge ure, Gary Numan. They are all having a revival this year in the UK. Just seen Gary Numan last week, going to book to see the other's later in the year. New romantic never made it in America. The music yes but not the dressing up. We were unique. All sythicisors in the music, took it to a new level.
Loved this when it came out
❤Love this band's entire catalog. They are referring to World Leaders wanting to rule the world. It is not enough just to rule their own people and country......they want to make everyone think like them and that is why there will always be war, oppression, genocide and fighting. It is happening in our own country. It is the opposite of live and let live. 🌍🕊❤✌ I don't want to kill the vibe so......the sound you are picking up on is part of the 80s British Groups known as the 2nd British Invasion. The first Invasion was of course in the 60s lead by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Animals, The Who and many more.
Thank you for reacting to this. From a person born in the 90s, this is my favourite song to listen to from the 80s.
Tears for Fears is a great band. Another 80's recommendation.. "Things can only get Better" by Howard Jones. I think you will really like it.
Back then, this and few others songs when they came on the radio it was time to change the channel. Some things never change.
What you’re picking up on is it’s early 80s music especially from Europe that’s what you’re hearing. I believe I was a DJ back in those days mobile Dj.
Being a teenager in the 80's, I always thought they sounded similar to The Human League and Simple Minds.
Great driving song.
Head Over Heels and Woman In Chains next please!
I have had a positive take on this song. I interpret it as a positive feeling of ambition. I would feel inhibited by “this indecision married with a lack of vision.” The part I am a bit uncertain about is “best behavior”. I’d like to think it refers to acting on one’s best behavior being opposed to one’s natural instincts towards seeking their paradise.
Now go find their newest album. Their voices may not be as powerful, but the songs are still fantastic.
You were very close!!! Depeche Mode had a big hit with Enjoy the Silence. It's the synth's that give you that connection. But, I'd label Tears For Fears as much more Pop than Depeche Mode. They were straight up New Wave/Electronica.
You should listen to Echo and The Bunnymen and their popular song called The Killing Moon.
The whole album was good.. i had it on cassette tape.. lol
*Michael Jackson loved this song so much he used/borrowed/stole the bassline for 'The Way You Make Me Feel' two years later in 1987.*
Watch the movie “Weird Science” and this video and the 80’s makes total sense! Haha
Thanks for reacting....brings back memories of watching 80s MVs on MTV with my daughter. She was in 5th-6th grade back then...we both loved Tears for Fears, among other great 80s music/groups. They have a lot of great tracks mentioned in the comments that I hope you'll discover further. Sadly, not many folks in my circle share the same feeling about 80s music which is kind of sad.
Could you react to Robert Palmer's rendition of Marvin Gayes' "Mercy, Mercy Me/I Want You"....from 1991. Link: m.ua-cam.com/video/_hX06ajVGHg/v-deo.html
His 85 song around the same time as Tears for Fears, was "Addicted to Love".... cheesey or not...but "catchy" none the less....link: m.ua-cam.com/video/XcATvu5f9vE/v-deo.html
Thanks again for this reaction. 👍😊
All about the same time, British invasion part 2.
@BlackPegasus
Their song Mad World will break your heart.
BP Please try Woman in Chains by this great British band 👍🎶🎵🍯🤌🙏💪🐝🍀
Tears for Fears is a great new wave band from the 80s. If it wasn't for MTV there would have been a lot of great music I never would have heard.
Don't you forget about me, is by Simple Minds, not Tears for Fears...
@@chelseahaley8350 corrected. I'm old now
@@allenruss2976 Ur all good! 😊
Severally underrated musicians just because they're from the 80's. They are actually extremely intelligent.
What does that mean?
@@woodchucknationIt means that they're smart at making music.
They are brilliant writers, musicians, producers, composers, they have worked on so many other projects. You're right, they are very intelligent ! Sooo underrated!!
What did you mean underrated? They're are huge in the 80s.
I was going to say something similar 😂@@helpfulplaylists3933
It was the 80s. We enjoyed what we were given. Radio, stereo systems, walkmans and music television was it. No Internet, smart phones or streaming services. It was a simpler time when we enjoyed some of the best music in history, along with what came before. I'm not knocking anything after the 80s, but the 90s began to usher in the Net, and everything started to become a blur with instant information and gratification. It seems like we had more time to realize who we were back then. But all will be well. Every generation faces its obstacles.
spectrum 48k, 3 tv channels, Family.
So very well stated. Grew up same era, and it's crazy looking back how much we took for granted. Especially when you put it in the context of how the 90s ushered in the Net and new communication technology. Gone were the innocent days of braving a germ-filled Phone booth receiver to call Mom to let her know you were ok, and would be home soon lol. How quickly time seemed to fly by. I looked up one day, and there were pagers, then mobile phones, and Windows. And while I welcomed in a lot of that new technology with open arms, t's so nice to know that we can go back to this proverbial time machine and relive that old nostalgic feeling of 80's music on a place called UA-cam. Yes, all is well... 🥰
@@earth2kosmickitty word!
Very, well said, @thewarrior5486. 🙂
@@thewarrior5486 "Every generation faces its obstacles." Word! Not only that, but we've survived all of those changes...a little bruised, but still not broken. Peace out! ✌😎
The first two lines of this song pretty much sum up the human experience: "Welcome to you life. There's no turning back." The song is about wanting to have more control over our own lives.
Curt Smith, the song's lead singer, said the themes were "quite serious - it's about everybody wanting power, about warfare and the misery it causes." "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" was first released on 22 March 1985 through Phonogram, Mercury and Vertigo Records as the third single from Songs from the Big Chair.
Pre release title was ….everybody wants to go to war…..record company said no
They opening riff is so iconic
And it’s got one of the all-time great lyrics: “I can’t stand this indecision/married with a lack of vision”.
*The
Tears for Fears "HEAD OVER HEALS" and "SHOUT" (original videos) are awesome!!! 🔥🔥🔥
I love the story behind "Shout." :D
This song is about the lunacy of the 1980s policy of mutually assured destruction of the arms race. Our generation thought we would never see the year 2000. The verse that says " there's a room where the lights won't find you, holding hands while walls come tumbling down, when they do I 'll be right behind you, so glad we almost made it, so sad they had to fade it, everybody wants to rule the world." The message we took from this song then was enjoy life while you can ❤
yea, that "so glad we almost made it. so sad they had to fade it" right there. Fade it out with nuclear winter. But everyone was so sure nuclear extinction was just around the corner. If we only knew what was coming in the mid 2020's.
Wrong
when you don't have power, most people are chill. But when you give even a chill person power, 99% will trip. Power is a drug that very few individuals can handle.
Just look at He-Man.
Absolute power absolutely corrupt.
Every time I hear this song, it always takes me back to 1985 and being a 14/15-year old teenager experiencing the best decade of music.
Reminds me of those long drives to the beach, crammed in the car with my sisters, listening to Casey Kasem Top 40 on the radio
Everybody's "decade" in their opinion was the best. Mine was late 60's , 70's my Mom's was post war Benny Goodman, Glen Miller..the big bands and "swing" which I like alot too...
@@Cchan53 So true! Us old ones have it made! After all...we got to live through ALL of those decades of change, and all the great music that came with it. Peace! ✌😎
Me too
Senior year hs
Depeche Mode Naked Eyes, Tears For Fears ,Flock Of Seagulls, The Fix...and more all came out of Britain in the same decade. Things became less heavy for the most part, more poppy and synthesized but still good...I owned all music from these groups.
Interesting!
You forgot OMD. The same has you do, I have all of them and then some.
You also forgot Talk Talk.
Throw in The Human League as well
@@BrendenCorlet See your Human League and raise you Heaven 17
One of the final lines in the song - "So glad we almost made it. So sad they had to fade it" is a reference to when they were in the studio with a previous album.
I believe it was the song 'Shout', and the record execs were telling them in the studio that the song would be a failure unless they faded the end 5 seconds earlier. They refused to compromise over such a ridiculous request... and on the next album, when writing this song, they made a subtle sarcastic comment about that situation, because Shout had become their best performing song.
Looking back with that info from the band themselves.... I do believe this entire song was inspired more from a viewpoint that the record label was trying to control their music, their vision, and their direction. Everyone should be in charge of their own lives, and I think this song is a critique of the entities in this world that strive to control all of our lives.
This was on the same album as "Shout", so it can't be that one.
Sounds like a reference to the the great reset and NWO to me, but hey they definitely weren't into the illuminati. 👀
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I remember walking down the hallway on the last day of school, 5 teenage girls, arms linked, singing this song. I know everyone probably thinks it, but we really had the best music and the best generation. No smart phones, no pagers, news was on 2x a day or in the newspaper so we only really heard the "big" stuff. We got to be young, and grow up with an innocence that is impossible today.
Nostalgia is selective amnesia.
@@2tonesg Huh? I don't remember! 😉👍
Love Tears for Fears!! They have mad bangers but Sowing the seeds of love, Shout, and Head over heels are a few of their more popular songs! Definitely listen to more!!
The songs of my teen years. Tears for Fears were unique. This song fits with that "cruising with the top down" vibe. Their song "Shout" was another hit & definitely a "stop & sing along" song.
Your comparison to Depeche Mode (and INXS?) is spot on. “Head over Heels” has a great sound too but is totally different. Try Joe Jackson’s “stepping out” for vibes in this family.
SHOUT is an awesome cut from them
Tears for fears are amazing, and their songs have deep meaning. Few of their song: Shout, sowing the seeds of love, pale shelter, mad world, woman in chain.
the lead singer has one of the greatest voices i’ve ever heard tbh
There isn’t a lead singer they both have unique and amazing voices
The guitar work on this song is sublime
I've always felt that Neil Taylor's solo at the end is one of the greatest outro solos ever recorded. The note choices and structure are, indeed, sublime.
This has been on my playlist for decades. A great and iconic song.
One of the best songs EVER. just a whole ass VIBE.
They did an incredibly under rated song with Oleta Adams - Woman in Chains - well worth checking out...
A lot of 80s music is exactly like this... It has the hook, It has a vibe. It feels like an anthem. It makes you want to move your body.... Then the actual lyrics hit you like a drop kick of "WTF was that?"
Deep lessons in a sweet package.
Pure British Synth pop. A huge wave of British sound we loved every minute of it. Almost every band I loved back then❤❤❤
We all loved the New wave
Yes New Wave ,that's what it was called and although growing up as a teen in the late 60's I embraced all decades of music to come ...some good some not so good...80's was cool yes...
This song was huge. Saw them live recently. They are soooo good.
This will forever be a song of summer for me... the same way that as soon as I start hearing Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer" I start thinking about the end of summer... the end of the good times. This song hits me as a build up to summer in the opposite way.
I actually hope BP will react to some Don Henley songs (as well as the solo work of the other Eagles members). Boys of Summer, All She Wants to do is Dance, etc. from Henley would be good.
Yes me too! Those two songs start and end the summer. I can listen to either one in the darkest winter and immediately be transported
I was a teenager in the 80’s. This was a banger back then and hopefully still..oh well. Love this band and showed how much chill we had and just as teens engulfed Ourselves in the Music of the Times! 80’s were the Best
Yea the British Invasion from the 80s
You'll also Love Tears for Fears- Mad World - Head Over Heals - Shout - Sowing the Seeds of Love
Depeche Mode, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure, Electronic - all new wave groups that used primarily synth (with a few exceptions)
Tears For Fears is one of those bands that does embrace synth from the same era, but crossed over to more radio main stream... much like Duran Duran did.
I think the 'common' sound you hear is the instrumentation..... back in the early days of synth, there as a few main keyboard manufacturers, and a limited collection of sounds you could generate. Some artists were innovating new sounds (like Phil Collins developing the 80's unique 'gated drum' technique of modulating the sound a drum made). As the decade went on, more and more variety was heard, as computers and synth just exploded... but the early 80's did have a more homogenous sound overall.
FYI, the drums on this song use Phil's 'gated' technique, and all through the 80's it was overused, lol.
yeah it was a specific sound from a specific time. I loved it even though by the time this came out I was already an older guy who didn't listen that much to popular music anymore.
all horrible.
Love this song. Maybe the best opening line ever with "Welcome to your life there's no turning back."
These guys are top notch. Their hits are great but they were/are not just another 80's band. A lot of depth to their catalog and their compositions are phenomenal.
Mad World, Sowing The Seeds Of Love and Woman In Chains another 3 epics