I still say the loss of Ian Stanley was a great loss. His keyboards were perfect in every song. Excellent texture and highlights. He left and so be it. I just want him to be recognized for excellence.
3:51 LOL, poor Roland XDD
The best song of Tears For Fears, a masterpiece.
Tears For Fears is one of those special bands I liked the first time I heard, and just never got old. The music has aged VERY well.
I'm dying of lung cancer. Only this music comforts me. Thanks for the excellent clip. I hope I die without suffering this music will play in paradise.
The 80's were something else.
Easily the best song made by Tears for Fears, I cant get over how good this is.
Tears For Fears music is timeless. Roland is a songwriting genius.
Just heard this on BBC 2 radio .... Haven't heard it since the 80s .. took me right back!!! Wow thanks for the brilliant music and memories 💕
Not just a hit maker. These guys really knew how to arrange and produce songs, incorporating interesting breaks, instrumentation, lyrics, and passion that helped put them above the majority of 80s bands.
Curt's bass playing deserves more recognition, he's nailing it!!
This, kids, is pure, raw talent. Thank you Curt and Roland, forever in my heart.
I love when they both share the songs. Curt's Angelic voice balanced out with Roland's Dark Booming vocals.
I'm 50, 37 years later, still lovin'it, this is the power of music!
Songs like these still put tears in your eyes, because those times are gone.
The 80's produced a lot of good timeless music. I'm glad I was raised on this.
To understand this song and the entire debut album it's on (The Hurting, 1983), one thing must be said: both members of the band were enchanted by the work of the psychotherapist Arthur Janov, whose most renowned book was Primal Scream (1970). Janov was the inventor of “primal therapy”, a treatment that encouraged the patient to explore his childhood traumas, experiencing them for a second time and then expressing the long-repressed pain. One way to release this pain is this primal scream. The same name of the duo, not by chance, comes from a psychotherapeutic treatment developed by Janov, during which the patient lives again the earliest sensations of the perinatal age, hence the name “Tears for Fears”. Both members felt that their parents had not given them love, but only a weak, “Pale Shelter”. Composing The Hurting was a way to throw out all the things they absorbed in the childhood, to take the feelings of abandonment, rejection and anger and turn them into something active. With its pure emotions, The Hurting is the album for those who have experienced what being imprisoned in our own emotions means; for those who have felt the desperation that makes its way, when you cannot escape, whether it comes from childhood or not. Source: auralcrave.com
GTA Vice City has introduced me to some amazing music and to an amazing decade, and for that I will always be grateful.
I remember dancing to this song in 1983 with a very cute short-haired New Wave girl at the Odyssey 1 club in Los Angeles. I was so lucky that this incredible music was the music of my generation.
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