I remember it like it was yesterday. That hot summer in 1985 and Tears for Fears played Red Rocks in Colorado. This was the opening song. Dark stage and this song is playing. Drop jawed we watched and for the next two hours they played flawlessly. At the end, the stage darkened, the lights grew dim and "Listen" played as we stood in silence. No words could grasp what we had just witnessed.
Cuanto me hubiera gustado presenciar algo tan sublime, yo los vine a apreciar en su totalidad hasta inicios de los noventas tanto así que un amigo mío y mis hermanos se hicieron fans de ellos.
This is the song of my life... After my Father passed away in 2007, I found myself playing the Album and "Listen" started to be on repeat on the CD player! It's a song that was hard for me to listen to, but i could not stop myself. That was a hard time in my life.....Tonight is the first time it's been played since 2007! Rest in Peace Dad... Love you 4ever x
My dad use to play this song when I was a baby to stop me from crying and I see why just LISTEN............This song really eases your soul and makes you want to be by a waterfall under the stars with your loved one. This song takes me to a place that puts you in the mind of neverland, seriously I listen to this song to get away from the troubles of this world. No recession, no violence, hate, poverty, racism, etc. Just peace.
When you close your eyes and just listen to this whole album it is one of the greatest of all time. Rivals Pink Floyd, the beatles basically you think of these guys as nobodys but man this album every song just flows into the next. It doesn't matter how old you are it just resinates in your head. I don't know how they did it. maybe an acid trip I don't know, but damn it awesome.
I'm only 16 years old and Tears for Fears is one of my favorite bands and the 80's is deffinetley my favorite decade for music. I just wish more artists would look at the 80's for inspiration and to spark new ideas. That's what music needs today. We need the boundries to be pushed alot more.
I'm usually in a bad situation when I start flying. Sometimes I'll still fall if I don't stay level once I'm up there but when I do I remember the first time I fell asleep with this playing... It looked like a foggy sky but once I got higher I realized the land was burning. I could smell it. By the end of the song with the piano the sun comes out and other kids joined me...we were all looking for our parents.
saquist There was a time in my childhood were I thought I could really fly too.. So, I started jumping off roof tops.. I really enjoyed the two seconds of floating sensations after that I was hook man
Thank you for uploading this. The album and this song has brought me to tears. I was 15 years old and desperately depressed and alienated. These songs brought me solace. That I feel again tonight, 46 years old, thousands of miles from when I first listened.
tears for fears has an uncanny ability to produce the exact sound and instrument at the right moment in their music. it is as if the sounds of their music speaks to you. not too many groups have that ability and talent especially these days. their lyrics are the best as well but if you notice their music could stand alone. One of the super groups in my opinion.
..what a magnificent mark they are leaving on the planet for us to enjoy and benefit from.....they are leading a purposeful life. I am so grateful that I am here to experience it now.
Seems like a thousand years ago. I was in college, met this lovely girl. We slow danced to this, really slow... just let the sound surround us. It almost feels the same every time I hear this... Too bad I cannot get back to that. Lament is a terrible thing.
This is such a strange and dreamy tune. I've always liked it, never understood it, but it always takes me back to the first time I heard it...to the days I was still in school and a lot of people that are dead today were still alive back then. It's like the soundtrack to my life. lol. A lot of great memories from my youth. All the Dreams, the fears, the hopes...all relived through this tune.
Wow, does this bring back memories! I saw them opening & closing night at Radio City in 1985 (?). Risked life to see them. An 18 yr old girl, traveling alone on the F train at 2am when the concert was over. Was so worth it! I was so in love with Roland Orzabal! Curt Smith never did anything for me, lol. Ian Stanley either. Manny Elias always reminded me of an older father trying to live his old rock & roll days or something, lol. Genius in harmonies and vocals.
I always did admire Ian Stanley's synthesizer work on both this song and on "Songs From The Big Chair" as a whole. Without Ian's contribution, TFF would not have become the success that they did with this LP. It was Ian who gave them free use of his recording studio, contributed to the writing of most of the songs on SFTBC, played on the record giving it it's signature synthesizer sound effect, and he also taught Roland and Curt valuable recording techniques which they would go on to use on the "Seeds of Love" project, without Ian for the most part. This was due to Roland and Curt bringing in so many session musicians on the "Seeds of Love" project that it ended up costing their record company over £1 million pounds (UK) (about $1.5 US) to make, and lead to creative differences with Ian Stanley and forced him to leave the project all together. TFF's sound hasn't been the same ever since, nor have they sold anywhere near what SFTBC did with Ian as part of the band.
Much of what you said is also true of another great group: The Moody Blues. Their original keyboard player, Mike "Mr. Mellotron" Pinder was responsible more than any other member of the group for putting them on the map with their hugely successful "core seven" albums with their signature sound (Days of Future Passed, through to Seventh Sojourn), and who was very much the soul of that band. Every song from those albums is enriched with his emulation of a massed string section from his Mellotron, and just like TFF, their sound, nor their later album popularity has never been the same since his departure. It's a pity that people can't set their egos aside for the greater good (and success).
Inflec I agree, but I always did like the way that Justin Haywood handled vocal and songwriting duties on many of their songs. He wrote many of their hit songs. I once got to see The Moody Blues live in concert many years ago at Red Rocks Amphitheatre just outside of Denver, Colorado when I had to go out west for two weeks to visit my then employer's corporate offices in nearby Golden, Colorado. I was participating in several company seminars that they were doing at that time. The Red Rocks concert also lead to the release of a live album and VHS video.
Robbie Stewart Indeed so. I never intended to mean that their sound went down the drain, just that on balance, it wasn't as good as before. And yes, Justin Hayward certainly became the sparkplug of that group when he came onboard--Nights In White Satin is all the proof needed for that opinion. But the Moodies are a classic example of synergism--where the result is greater than the sum of the individual parts. This can be seen when you compare their individual works that they released in the '70s (when they broke up for a time) to those earlier albums--simply nowhere near as good. The closest any of those came to that former glory was the joint Justin Hayward/John Lodge project, Bluejays. But that album owed as much to the well known voices of John and Justin (who were also the lead vocalists for the Moodies), as it did to their songwriting. Yes, the Moodies are still a great group, but theirs is a case where once you've gotten to the top of the mountain, there's nowhere else to go but down. Nonetheless, you were most fortunate to catch the Red Rocks tour.
100% agreed, that line up from sftbc was golden, and their sound was topnotch... should have never left that trademark imo...80s BEST decade really, new times are PISS
The Emax, Fairlight, Roland Jupiter 8, Prophet 5 and Yamaha DX7. They featured heavily on almost the entire decade, but somehow no one else (except perhaps Peter Gabriel) could blend them into such a seductive sound. Orzabal and Stanley had a very, very keen sense of how sounds interplay with one another, and what types of sounds/sound design came across as professional rather than cheesy. We also can't overstate David Bascombe's contribution; he put the final shine on it all.
Out of my mom's collection of older music, Songs From The Big Chair is my favourite. I grew up with this album and I always dismissed this song because it was the last one, and it was slow and endless and not as fun as the others. Right now, my favourite is The Working Hour (same as my mom) but listening to this song, it's an experience. It's completely unique and it's pretty damn amazing.
This gives me chills. I was about a year old when this album came out and my parents used to put this song on to calm me down as an infant. Hearing this song seems to trigger some distant memory
I grew up in the 80's. There is a lot of TFF music I never heard before. They are awesome and genius. It is like a treasure chest of beautiful and deep music. Thanks for posting.
When I was about a year old my parents used to put this song on to relax me...and it would. Listening to it gives me a chill, like it's buried away somewhere deep in my sub-conscience. I want this played at my funeral.
I could play this over and over....Very dreamy and relaxing...Its like walking into crowded room and seeing her there and doing a double take.....Later talking in a narrow dim hallway...Walking in the rain, hair wet...A hug in a doorway....Kissing the rain drops on her forehead...Breathing in her scent...Hmmmm nice.
a time thats gone- the 80s were life was adventure....TFF genius music- thankful forl livin that decade cause it was better than all other times....if you were there you understand the specialty of that decade-really
MultiMrMiles In the 80s I just was a child but I could feel the euphoria that people lived in that years, I can see in my mind cars, movies, clothe, and how in the news we could watch about the 3rd world war was inminent.
Banda emblemática dos anos 80 com hits inesquecíveis. Destaque para Listen que une excelentes arranjos com as vozes marcantes de Roland Orzabal e Curt Smith. É a minha favorita para ouvir com a alma e refletir.
So cool to think this was album and the group in general were really famous. Really can’t find groups like them with such an experimental sound, but also can appeal to a demographic! TFF were definitely one of the last great commercial acts
I remember listening to this in 1985 (when I was 20) eight of us taking two cars and driving off (in my Ford Granada 2.8 Ghia and friend’s Talbot Horizon) from our homes in Colchester for a holiday to a Gite in Brittany. In some ways it seems so long ago and in others like yesterday. This always makes me remember the good times we had on that holiday...
yo, turning 19, the summer of 87 was a discovery like no other. I kept TFF in heavy rotation I pop this tape twice. I just move to New York City got me through, scarey time, big ups to TEARS FOR FEARS and STING
This song was not composed by the drummer. It was composed by the keyboard player, Ian Stanley who also helped produce the record -and would go on to become a producer in his own right- together with Chris Hughes, ex-Adam And The ants' drummer, who was an excellent early computer-aided kind of producer. ...Indeed, nothing better than this song on a quiet, nice summer eve. Awesome.
This was one of my favorite songs from "Songs From the Big Chair". I was 13 when this album came out in 1985. Judging by the comments, it seems like a lot of us were children of the 80s and this songs brings back a lot of memories for us. @Silvaria928 said it better than I can. This was a time in our lives when our futures were yet to be written and anything was possible. That time is past for me now but it reminds me of where my own children will soon be in their lives.
This song is one of their most beautiful. Especially the very symbolic first lines, and how it turns into a bombastic song and yet sound like the calm part.
What a typical and inspiring 80s tune! Even though they rarely play this awesome tune on the radio. In fact, radios mostly play the boring ones and rarely the goodies. They don't make music like they used to. Music back then had so many great tunes. I love thy 80s, those were the days, the prosperous days that I still miss to this day. Thank you TFF.
I saw them in concert in 1985 and also 2011 in Perth, Australia. They were better than ever and if they ever tour Perth again I will be there. Woman in chains still has the most overpower effect on you when you see/hear it live. I've recently bought Elemental (and album I missed when it came out) and just love the first 3 tracks.
Thank you to everyone who responded positively...it's good to know the optimistic spirit of this music lives on, even when there is so much negativity in the world. Just...thank you. 8)
Songs From the Big Chair was one of my favorite albums growing up. This is one of the first songs that was so surreal and strange, but I understood it and loved it. It introduced me to more strange music and stuff like this. Listening to it today is awesome and this song still kicks ass!
Eu também! A primeira vez que ouvi essa música foi na estinta rádio Alvorada FM num especial do Tears for Fears em 1991, e me apaixonei na hora por essa música. 😍
OMG...I haven't heard this song since I was a teenager...it takes me back to sitting in my room with my headphones on & the lights out...listening, & imagining...there was so much hope for the future, so many potential dreams to be realized...this music made me feel something beyond myself. Those were the times when each new day could bring an adventure...the perfect love and the perfect life were still attainable...all I had to do was stretch out my hand and my mind...
I had to sell a lot of my record collection to move interstate quickly in the early 90s, but this was one of the dozen or so I couldn’t part with so still got the vinyl!
I have been looking for this track all afternoon (and its been a great afternoon listening to all the old TFT tracks) I had Songs From The Big Chair and The Hurting, but I couldn't remember the name of this track. Its my all time favourite. I remember laying on my bed with my head phones on with this on full volume and playing it over and over again. I was full of teenage hormones and I loved it. Hearing it now makes me feel 15 all over again.
A truly breathtaking piece of music, and fleeting testimony to the talent of Ian Stanley. After severing ties with Stanley Tears For Fears never again possessed the compositional depth his obvious songwriting skill brought to the band. Whatever the reasons, his departure initiated TFF's sad, drawnout decline into almost-interestingness . . .
This is such a relaxing song. When I was in 5th grade I did not imagine that I'll see them in concert 27 years later. They were here in the Broward Center of Performing Arts last tuesday.
Oh my God! This is my childhood! This song, with that haunting synth tune, and the other elements picking up behind it that we hear at 2:53, for example, would play repeatedly in short loops in my young mind for what seemed like months in what year, I can't remember. Brings back memories, though.
OMGosh you have no idea, music was soooooo great back then , this is a fine example . I do think there are asome good bands still nowadays you just have to sift thru the rubble to find a few Gems. This is probably one of the most beautiful songs ever written and very "Romantic Too", shortly after meeting my wife back in 1987 I introduced her to this song we probably played it over and over for a hour at least. Although tonight is the first time we have heard it in 10 years or so what a crime
I remember it like it was yesterday. That hot summer in 1985 and Tears for Fears played Red Rocks in Colorado. This was the opening song. Dark stage and this song is playing. Drop jawed we watched and for the next two hours they played flawlessly.
At the end, the stage darkened, the lights grew dim and "Listen" played as we stood in silence. No words could grasp what we had just witnessed.
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Cuanto me hubiera gustado presenciar algo tan sublime, yo los vine a apreciar en su totalidad hasta inicios de los noventas tanto así que un amigo mío y mis hermanos se hicieron fans de ellos.
how I wish there were video recordings of that show ❤
Is anyone listening to this wonderful song in 2025, 40 years after it was produced?
This is the song of my life... After my Father passed away in 2007, I found myself playing the Album and "Listen" started to be on repeat on the CD player! It's a song that was hard for me to listen to, but i could not stop myself. That was a hard time in my life.....Tonight is the first time it's been played since 2007! Rest in Peace Dad... Love you 4ever x
My dad use to play this song when I was a baby to stop me from crying and I see why just LISTEN............This song really eases your soul and makes you want to be by a waterfall under the stars with your loved one. This song takes me to a place that puts you in the mind of neverland, seriously I listen to this song to get away from the troubles of this world. No recession, no violence, hate, poverty, racism, etc. Just peace.
When you close your eyes and just listen to this whole album it is one of the greatest of all time. Rivals Pink Floyd, the beatles basically you think of these guys as nobodys but man this album every song just flows into the next. It doesn't matter how old you are it just resinates in your head. I don't know how they did it. maybe an acid trip I don't know, but damn it awesome.
Still sounds so beautiful after so many years...
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I'm only 16 years old and Tears for Fears is one of my favorite bands and the 80's is deffinetley my favorite decade for music. I just wish more artists would look at the 80's for inspiration and to spark new ideas. That's what music needs today. We need the boundries to be pushed alot more.
I used to listen to this to escape my realities....
very peaceful and soothing..
GlassLegend40
I used to it fly in my dreams.
To this day I fly like the Greatest American Hero (seriously I'm not the best dream-flyer)
saquist
That's even better mat..! does the soundtrack comes on as soon as you felt your floating..?YESS!!
I'm usually in a bad situation when I start flying. Sometimes I'll still fall if I don't stay level once I'm up there but when I do I remember the first time I fell asleep with this playing...
It looked like a foggy sky but once I got higher I realized the land was burning. I could smell it. By the end of the song with the piano the sun comes out and other kids joined me...we were all looking for our parents.
saquist
There was a time in my childhood were I thought I could really fly too.. So, I started jumping off roof tops.. I really enjoyed the two seconds of floating sensations after that I was hook man
GlassLegend40 I used to listen to this to escape my relatives....(headphones of course)
Thank you for uploading this. The album and this song has brought me to tears. I was 15 years old and desperately depressed and alienated. These songs brought me solace. That I feel again tonight, 46 years old, thousands of miles from when I first listened.
Hands down the most beautiful thing TFF ever did. Epic, grand, a testament to the 80's ethos and yet also timeless.
Ian Stanley wrote this. Sadly he seemed very underrated in his time with TFF.
@@deenamccarthy6177 He wasn't keen on including it on the album as he felt it wasn't in keeping with the other tracks.
Love the dreamscape sound of this gorgeous melody. 💖TFF💖
tears for fears has an uncanny ability to produce the exact sound and instrument at the right moment in their music. it is as if the sounds of their music speaks to you. not too many groups have that ability and talent especially these days. their lyrics are the best as well but if you notice their music could stand alone. One of the super groups in my opinion.
you're right!.
Their music never gets old or boring; it's like a whole other world when listening to it.
TIMELESS TREASURES ❤
..what a magnificent mark they are leaving on the planet for us to enjoy and benefit from.....they are leading a purposeful life. I am so grateful that I am here to experience it now.
Absolutely...my sentiments precisely...
DAMN.
HOW I LOVE THIS SONG.
HOW I FREAKING LOVE THIS SONG.
Seriously. Tears for Fears are the best ever
Seems like a thousand years ago. I was in college, met this lovely girl. We slow danced to this, really slow... just let the sound surround us. It almost feels the same every time I hear this... Too bad I cannot get back to that. Lament is a terrible thing.
And bittersweet is a teo edged sword. I keep getting older and her face never ages
This is such a strange and dreamy tune. I've always liked it, never understood it, but it always takes me back to the first time I heard it...to the days I was still in school and a lot of people that are dead today were still alive back then. It's like the soundtrack to my life. lol. A lot of great memories from my youth. All the Dreams, the fears, the hopes...all relived through this tune.
"Songs From The Big Chair"! Great album. Brings back memories from the summer of '85
This song..... especially the instrumentals during the intro, is just the most beatiful thing i've heard.
Songs from the Big Chair -the best album of the 1980's
AND STILL TODAY.👍😎👍
It's year 2020 im 37year old African-American man. And that album is the greatest of all time....
Probably right
Power, Corruption and Lies?
Who are these men...and what planet have they come from?? To grace us with their gifts???
It keeps getting better and better....
THE best album of the 80s in my opinion. One of a number of very good tracks of this. Even the extra tracks are good!
It is a masterpiece of the music, it sounds kind of like ambient ethereal or atmospheric.Wow! amazing TFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Masterpiece it is!
Wow, does this bring back memories!
I saw them opening & closing night at Radio City in 1985 (?). Risked life to see them. An 18 yr old girl, traveling alone on the F train at 2am when the concert was over. Was so worth it!
I was so in love with Roland Orzabal! Curt Smith never did anything for me, lol. Ian Stanley either. Manny Elias always reminded me of an older father trying to live his old rock & roll days or something, lol.
Genius in harmonies and vocals.
I Love the way the sound splits and moves around.
A very uplifting Song.
Can play this one over and over.
This so ..beautiful..it is frightening...I am in love...my heart sings when I listen to it...
I always did admire Ian Stanley's synthesizer work on both this song and on "Songs From The Big Chair" as a whole. Without Ian's contribution, TFF would not have become the success that they did with this LP. It was Ian who gave them free use of his recording studio, contributed to the writing of most of the songs on SFTBC, played on the record giving it it's signature synthesizer sound effect, and he also taught Roland and Curt valuable recording techniques which they would go on to use on the "Seeds of Love" project, without Ian for the most part. This was due to Roland and Curt bringing in so many session musicians on the "Seeds of Love" project that it ended up costing their record company over £1 million pounds (UK) (about $1.5 US) to make, and lead to creative differences with Ian Stanley and forced him to leave the project all together. TFF's sound hasn't been the same ever since, nor have they sold anywhere near what SFTBC did with Ian as part of the band.
Much of what you said is also true of another great group: The Moody Blues. Their original keyboard player, Mike "Mr. Mellotron" Pinder was responsible more than any other member of the group for putting them on the map with their hugely successful "core seven" albums with their signature sound (Days of Future Passed, through to Seventh Sojourn), and who was very much the soul of that band. Every song from those albums is enriched with his emulation of a massed string section from his Mellotron, and just like TFF, their sound, nor their later album popularity has never been the same since his departure. It's a pity that people can't set their egos aside for the greater good (and success).
Inflec I agree, but I always did like the way that Justin Haywood handled vocal and songwriting duties on many of their songs. He wrote many of their hit songs. I once got to see The Moody Blues live in concert many years ago at Red Rocks Amphitheatre just outside of Denver, Colorado when I had to go out west for two weeks to visit my then employer's corporate offices in nearby Golden, Colorado. I was participating in several company seminars that they were doing at that time. The Red Rocks concert also lead to the release of a live album and VHS video.
Robbie Stewart Indeed so. I never intended to mean that their sound went down the drain, just that on balance, it wasn't as good as before. And yes, Justin Hayward certainly became the sparkplug of that group when he came onboard--Nights In White Satin is all the proof needed for that opinion. But the Moodies are a classic example of synergism--where the result is greater than the sum of the individual parts. This can be seen when you compare their individual works that they released in the '70s (when they broke up for a time) to those earlier albums--simply nowhere near as good. The closest any of those came to that former glory was the joint Justin Hayward/John Lodge project, Bluejays. But that album owed as much to the well known voices of John and Justin (who were also the lead vocalists for the Moodies), as it did to their songwriting. Yes, the Moodies are still a great group, but theirs is a case where once you've gotten to the top of the mountain, there's nowhere else to go but down. Nonetheless, you were most fortunate to catch the Red Rocks tour.
100% agreed, that line up from sftbc was golden, and their sound was topnotch... should have never left that trademark imo...80s BEST decade really, new times are PISS
The Emax, Fairlight, Roland Jupiter 8, Prophet 5 and Yamaha DX7. They featured heavily on almost the entire decade, but somehow no one else (except perhaps Peter Gabriel) could blend them into such a seductive sound. Orzabal and Stanley had a very, very keen sense of how sounds interplay with one another, and what types of sounds/sound design came across as professional rather than cheesy. We also can't overstate David Bascombe's contribution; he put the final shine on it all.
Out of my mom's collection of older music, Songs From The Big Chair is my favourite. I grew up with this album and I always dismissed this song because it was the last one, and it was slow and endless and not as fun as the others. Right now, my favourite is The Working Hour (same as my mom) but listening to this song, it's an experience. It's completely unique and it's pretty damn amazing.
Well said. I can relate.
Such a beautiful piece of music, still stands the test of time I’ve not listened to it for about 30 years ❤️
great sound, beautiful melodies on the synth, Ian Stanley did a great job, would like to see him rejoin TFF
This gives me chills. I was about a year old when this album came out and my parents used to put this song on to calm me down as an infant. Hearing this song seems to trigger some distant memory
The arrangement and production on this song is uncanny! I'm overwhelmed with ear candy to LISTEN to!
Tears for fears is an excellent band, but this song is really outstanding! lots of happy memories
an incredible audio experience...love this group then and more now...
Such beautiful music!!!! Just discovered this beauty! They are phenomenal!!!!!!!!
1985........one UNFORGETTABLE Year.......!!!!!!!!!
I could not listen to this song back in the 80's,either,but nowadays it sounds FANTASTIC to me!! How i've grown to realize what a Genious Roland is!!
I cannot begin to tell you how hot this band was back n the day. I was in my early 20s and working in Scotland. This band was global.
I grew up in the 80's. There is a lot of TFF music I never heard before. They are awesome and genius. It is like a treasure chest of beautiful and deep music. Thanks for posting.
This song was Ian Stanleys creation. Just beautiful. He must have had a beautiful soul writing such a genuine song from the heart.
My thoughts Exactly!
One Of The Greatest Music Pieces Ever Recorded.
Spellbound. I'm loving finding TFF again, after all these years. Great work!
for crying out loud on the talent these guys have such a variety of one and the gang - AWESOME !!!
Few songs make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck but this one does!!! Fantastic song and will never tire from listening to it !!!
When I was about a year old my parents used to put this song on to relax me...and it would. Listening to it gives me a chill, like it's buried away somewhere deep in my sub-conscience. I want this played at my funeral.
This music is hauntingly beautiful
I could play this over and over....Very dreamy and relaxing...Its like walking into crowded room and seeing her there and doing a double take.....Later talking in a narrow dim hallway...Walking in the rain, hair wet...A hug in a doorway....Kissing the rain drops on her forehead...Breathing in her scent...Hmmmm nice.
wow this is one of the best Tears for Fears songs yet, god damn they were good at what they did
Oh..... I love this melody..... I miss them, their sound, I wish they could return....... will always love them :-)
They returned!
So beautiful, so surreal. I feel like I'm floating on air while in Egypt.
a time thats gone- the 80s were life was adventure....TFF genius music- thankful forl livin that decade cause it was better than all other times....if you were there you understand the specialty of that decade-really
MultiMrMiles In the 80s I just was a child but I could feel the euphoria that people lived in that years, I can see in my mind cars, movies, clothe, and how in the news we could watch about the 3rd world war was inminent.
Magical times, missing them always. Cheers
We were youthful
Why are you writing in English if you suck so hard at it?
Hairs on the back of my neck are sticking up right now! Phenomenal song brilliant band and stunning album.
Curt said in an interview that this is Ian's baby. No wonder why this song sounds so heavenly
A staggering composition.
These beauties are still sharing the pleasure of their genius music with us.
How beautiful is this song though 😍
Great song from a great band. Thanks for sharing.
Fa venire la pelle d'oca.. Una delle melodie più belle mai ascoltate. Epica❤️
Still gives me chills...
Simply genius..I Love TFF
Banda emblemática dos anos 80 com hits inesquecíveis. Destaque para Listen que une excelentes arranjos com as vozes marcantes de Roland Orzabal e Curt Smith. É a minha favorita para ouvir com a alma e refletir.
listen to this....music from another world
So cool to think this was album and the group in general were really famous.
Really can’t find groups like them with such an experimental sound, but also can appeal to a demographic! TFF were definitely one of the last great commercial acts
Beautiful song! Ian Stanley is Amazing!
my all time favorite TFF tune
I remember listening to this in 1985 (when I was 20) eight of us taking two cars and driving off (in my Ford Granada 2.8 Ghia and friend’s Talbot Horizon) from our homes in Colchester for a holiday to a Gite in Brittany. In some ways it seems so long ago and in others like yesterday. This always makes me remember the good times we had on that holiday...
stevealexR1 Curt Smith is singing lead here... compared to Rolands booming voice, his is gentle and sweet
I love how clean this song is (:
Felicidades Ian donde quiera que estés, junto con curt y roland grandioso tema son todavía geniales
yo, turning 19, the summer of 87 was a discovery like no other. I kept TFF in heavy rotation I pop this tape twice. I just move to New York City got me through, scarey time, big ups to TEARS FOR FEARS and STING
pure magic
Puts a shiver down my spin every time
Angelic Music!
This song was not composed by the drummer. It was composed by the keyboard player, Ian Stanley who also helped produce the record -and would go on to become a producer in his own right- together with Chris Hughes, ex-Adam And The ants' drummer, who was an excellent early computer-aided kind of producer.
...Indeed, nothing better than this song on a quiet, nice summer eve. Awesome.
One of the"BEST"!!!! By far
This was one of my favorite songs from "Songs From the Big Chair". I was 13 when this album came out in 1985. Judging by the comments, it seems like a lot of us were children of the 80s and this songs brings back a lot of memories for us. @Silvaria928 said it better than I can. This was a time in our lives when our futures were yet to be written and anything was possible. That time is past for me now but it reminds me of where my own children will soon be in their lives.
This song is one of their most beautiful.
Especially the very symbolic first lines, and how it turns into a bombastic song and yet sound like the calm part.
one very dreamy relaxing soothing timeless epic epic song!!!
What a typical and inspiring 80s tune! Even though they rarely play this awesome tune on the radio. In fact, radios mostly play the boring ones and rarely the goodies. They don't make music like they used to. Music back then had so many great tunes. I love thy 80s, those were the days, the prosperous days that I still miss to this day. Thank you TFF.
....This is....stunning..breathtaking...I ..am speechless...
Wave after wave of melody.
O_O This is such a marvelous amazing sound. It radiates an aura of euphoria.
its a masterpiece
I saw them in concert in 1985 and also 2011 in Perth, Australia. They were better than ever and if they ever tour Perth again I will be there. Woman in chains still has the most overpower effect on you when you see/hear it live. I've recently bought Elemental (and album I missed when it came out) and just love the first 3 tracks.
In high school I performed an interpretive dance to this song. haunts me still... love this song
Thank you to everyone who responded positively...it's good to know the optimistic spirit of this music lives on, even when there is so much negativity in the world. Just...thank you. 8)
Songs From the Big Chair was one of my favorite albums growing up. This is one of the first songs that was so surreal and strange, but I understood it and loved it. It introduced me to more strange music and stuff like this. Listening to it today is awesome and this song still kicks ass!
I can't put into words what this song means to me but I swear that I get a tear in my eye when ever I listen to it.
I love this melody, The first time I heard this song was ten years ago in this same video, now I’m here again and still love this song
This is in a class of its own, stunning stunning,, music art of the highest standard,
Quando eu escutei essa música pela primeira vez me apaixonei na hora, ainda mais que foi ouvindo no vinil que é do meu pai...
Eu também! A primeira vez que ouvi essa música foi na estinta rádio Alvorada FM num especial do Tears for Fears em 1991, e me apaixonei na hora por essa música. 😍
OMG...I haven't heard this song since I was a teenager...it takes me back to sitting in my room with my headphones on & the lights out...listening, & imagining...there was so much hope for the future, so many potential dreams to be realized...this music made me feel something beyond myself. Those were the times when each new day could bring an adventure...the perfect love and the perfect life were still attainable...all I had to do was stretch out my hand and my mind...
This song..is amazing..... Very Nice
I had to sell a lot of my record collection to move interstate quickly in the early 90s, but this was one of the dozen or so I couldn’t part with so still got the vinyl!
I have been looking for this track all afternoon (and its been a great afternoon listening to all the old TFT tracks) I had Songs From The Big Chair and The Hurting, but I couldn't remember the name of this track.
Its my all time favourite. I remember laying on my bed with my head phones on with this on full volume and playing it over and over again. I was full of teenage hormones and I loved it.
Hearing it now makes me feel 15 all over again.
An exceptional and haunting piece of music, it is so atmospheric. I would classify this in the prog rock style.
I listened to this on cassette tape once on a tour bus going up I-29 to Winnipeg in the winter...a straight road...a smooth song for a smooth ride!
A truly breathtaking piece of music, and fleeting testimony to the talent of Ian Stanley. After severing ties with Stanley Tears For Fears never again possessed the compositional depth his obvious songwriting skill brought to the band. Whatever the reasons, his departure initiated TFF's sad, drawnout decline into almost-interestingness . . .
Ian Stanley's leaving was the Beginning of the End for Tears for Fears in the 80s
This is such a relaxing song. When I was in 5th grade I did not imagine that I'll see them in concert 27 years later. They were here in the Broward Center of Performing Arts last tuesday.
Thank you a million times for posting this classic,brings back some great memories for me, way back when i was young.
Dio quanti ricordi!
Migliore band.
Oh my God! This is my childhood!
This song, with that haunting synth tune, and the other elements picking up behind it that we hear at 2:53, for example, would play repeatedly in short loops in my young mind for what seemed like months in what year, I can't remember. Brings back memories, though.
OMGosh you have no idea, music was soooooo great back then , this is a fine example .
I do think there are asome good bands still nowadays you just have to sift thru the rubble to find a few Gems. This is probably one of the most beautiful songs ever written and very "Romantic Too", shortly after meeting my wife back in 1987 I introduced her to this song we probably played it over and over for a hour at least. Although tonight is the first time we have heard it in 10 years or so what a crime
This will always remind me of my drive across North America from Virginia to British Columbia in November, 1988.