Audio CD review:
Tears for Fears - Songs From The Big Chair

Tears for Fears - Songs From The Big Chair

Band: Tears for Fears Title: Songs From The Big Chair Rating: Release Date: 25 October, 1990 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Shout 2: The Working Hour 3: Everybody Wants To Rule The World 4: Mothers Talk 5: I Believe 6: Broken 7: Head Over Heels/Broken (Live) 8: Listen

Editoral Review " What was surprising was how the two managed to take all their deep-rooted inner turmoil and make such positively buoyant music. Considering that Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, the English duo known as Tears for Fears, were avid followers of Arthur Janov, father of the Primal Scream form of mental therapy, it wasn't surprising that one of their biggest hits was titled "Shout. Case in point: their other Songs from the Big Chair-spawned, No. 1 hit, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," was a meditative contemplation of the struggle for power within interpersonal relationships as a metaphor for global supremacy--which, thank god, had a good beat so you could at least dance to it. --Billy Altman .. You can see a complete list of all Tears for Fears discography, or go back to the Tears for Fears tabs