I Never Want This Tears For Fears Song To End

The hurting was an abstract masterpiece possibly the most underrated album period. It was years ahead of its time 1982 realize. Pale Shelter my favorite

Seven years of asking the camera what's up. Amazing

Elemental is an amazing album!

Badman's Song anyone?

I hope you have at least another 7 years teaching us! Congrats!

Hey Rick I am a late arrival to your channel and was only drawn to the Tears For Fears title. For some reason I had assumed you were an American sentric presenter or maybe they were the only ones I noticed. It was great to hear you mention Seal and I would add Simple Minds to that list. Being a drummer, closet bass player, born agin guitarist and a 1 fingered typist keyboard player I may not have the musical chops that others have here but I am able to write, record and release music my way. I was wondering if the the tuning of the bass guitar, ie drop D, which is my go to, has an effect on the melodies created by the guitars, keys and vocals. The bass is certainly prominent in this Tears song but seems to be sitting just above the kick! Happy to be wrong but regardless the sonic landscape of their music is crafted beautifully and especially those 6ths, 7ths and 9ths, that I use, but never knew what they were! cheers Ma9Na
ps I think one of your courses is on the cards for this self taught muso!

this song is so underrated! i still remember using my birthday money that year to buy my first walkman and also got this on cassette. i listened to this album so much and this song was definitely my favourite track on the album.

"Head over heels" I always liked

Last Train Home by Pat Metheny is the one I can listen to forever...

Roland is amazing

You should pop over to Malta!

TFF from start to now. and helpfully in the future. are unique, creative and full of inspiration. Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith are both began their 7 decade.. and they are great.

I'm 73, been around rock since before the Beatles, and there's just something about TFF and Roland's music that just grabs me and won't let go. All his songs, all of them different from the next, are inventive, thoughtful, melodic, and you just don't want them to end.

Thank you Rick! I once again am blown away from your offerings! I was not aware of this song Elemental or album, and now it's easily in my top 3 favorite of all time. It's a "10" in every way! Roland is such a talent to this world. Wow!

It's an additive continuum with a loose A-B song structure. The chord progression repeats while instruments, riffs and voices are added, deleted, multiplied. Terry Rily's "In C" is an extreme example. Riffs and snippets come in and out. Instruments are added, etc. The Morse Code keyboard rhythm with a slouchy bass, floor tom heavy ethnic drum groove give it urgency. Very hook heavy. You don't get this many hooks on entire albums nowdays.

Would loved to have seen a collaboration of TFF and 10cc.

“Brian Wilson Said” is one of the best Beach Boys songs Brian never wrote. Great album!

Rick , beyond the obvious musicality, me and my boxer dog malarkey just love your life affirming, enthusiasm, beautiful attitude.
You are a star my friend

every roland and tff album oozes craftsmanship. Sewing the seeds of love is one of the most meticulously crafted albums of the 1980's

When I saw the thumbnail I was sure you were going to talk about the song "Brian Wilson Said" in that album... that's one of the most beautiful arrangements ever done for a song, and with all those references in the lyrics I thought you're the kind of guy who would really love that song. But Elemental title song is awesome too! at this point I was just really surprised you talked about it, since I was used to lonely listening this album repeatedly, an album largely ignored even by TFF fanbase...although Raoul and The Kings of Spain is even way more dismissed..and prefered by me.

Rule the world was played at my Sons graduation. 2009. It was an ab Spiritual. Mind blowing experience. Not a dry eye in the place. What s time to be alive!

😂😂😂😂 I havnt seen you so animated as this before Ruck. It's so great and your love of the music is so infectious. You have that creative buzz about you . Great stuff . Makes me crack up. 😂😂

Elemental is one of the best albums I ever heard.

Jumped on the TFF band wagon from day 1.....
I love them... and Roland's solo stuff as well.
As stated in another remark below.... Roland is a "Mad Genius".
Thank you Rick!!!

When this album came out, I bought it at midnight and brought it home to play it. My first reaction to Elemental was “Holy s***!” Still feel that way almost 30 years later.

In the eighties it was described as New Romantic or New wave.

I like pale shelter, and break it down again, but they do have a lot of really good songs

Atmospheric Rock

Elemental is a criminally underrated album.

I knew it was gonna be Elemental. Just a beautiful song from top to bottom, start to finish. I’ve played this song way more than any of their other hits.

Does this mix harken back to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, yes, absolutely. In the 1960s, Spector usually worked at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles because of its exceptional echo chambers. The sound for the Wall of Sound would normally sound "wet," but accusations of distortion were untrue. He mixed for the sound equipment of the 1960s. Spector also typically worked with such audio engineers as Larry Levine and the late Brian Ingolsby, former head of MCA Records, and the conglomerate of session musicians who later became known as The Wrecking Crew. Orzabal has captured here the perfect incarnation of Spector's Wall of Sound. I knew Ingolsby who had a recording studio on Magnolia Blvd in North Hollywood. It has long been torn down. An odd thing about Spector is his placement of his handgun on the board during sessions.

The "Wall of Sound" consisted of various elements:
1) Layering
2) Echo
3) Spill or Mic Bleeding.

It was not a maximum of noise, nor distortion.

God that chorus melody line is gorgeous.

This is a great song, but for me Woman in Chains is a masterpiece.

One of my favorite songs. Great album as well.

Elemental is gorgeous but for me, its the Working Hour. On loop.

I spent the better part of three years studying the music of Roland Orzabal. I’m an extension/ altered extension guy anyway, but immersion in song writing of this level changes you. He’s a master at layering and bringing big hooks at unexpected places. As far as pop music goes the guy is an absolute genius.

I used to listen to the song back in the day over and over and I thought I was the only one that 1. Had heard it. 2. Loved it! Nice to see, so many years later, I wasn't the only one.

3.5 million subscribers - that was SOOOOO 280k subscribers ago.

This song, and Mr. Pessimist. Perfection

It's called, New Wave. lol

Great song. My all-time favorite of theirs is Bad Man’s Song…the Knebworth Concert with Oleta Adams. The best live performance ever, to me 😊

Goodnight Song is the song I never want to end.

I love those guys. So glad I got to see them a few times back in the day! And they are STILL good

Head Over Heels is in my top 3 all time list. Woman In Chains is also unbelievably beautiful

Auric Rock

I was fortunate enough to see them 2 separate times this past summer on their tour. Roland and Curtis can still belt out those notes. Amazing talent. I'm 57 years old and blessed to have had them growing up and watching them age like fine wine.

Transition from late eighties to early nineties really brought Tears for Fears alive for me. This entire album is a masterpiece.

I like most songs until the lyrics start!