Audio CD review:
Tears For Fears - The Hurting [UK Bonus Tracks]

Tears For Fears - The Hurting [UK Bonus Tracks]

Band: Tears For Fears Title: The Hurting [UK Bonus Tracks] Rating: Release Date: 13 March, 2001 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: The Hurting 2: Mad World 3: Pale Shelter 4: Ideas As Opiates 5: Memories Fade 6: Suffer The Children 7: Watch Me Bleed 8: Change 9: The Prisoner 10: Start Of The Breakdown 11: Pale Shelter (Long Version) 12: The Way You Are (Extended) 13: Mad World (World Remix) 14: Change (Extended Version)

Customer Reviews Great Songs but recordings sound crude compared to later stuff The remastering helps the overall sound but it also makes the shortcomings more obvious. I wish they would re-mix this album or even better re-record it, the songs are great but the recording, mix, arangements and performances are just not as good as their later recording, the CD sounds like a demo compared to Big Chair or Seeds. . One of the great Alt-rock albums The Hurting is their best album and one of the best (top 10) from the 80s (IMHO), all songs resonate and reach deeply inside. Like Simon & Garfunkel a generation earlier the Tears for Fear duo of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith will with any luck shine bright for generations to come. The opening to Pale Shelter embodies the mid-80's soaring atmospheric Alt-rock sound. While other Alt-heads were going gaga over bands like New Order, The Smiths and The Cure (yes, all great acts. . . . U2 is a different story altogether) some of us were cheering for Alt-Alt bands like TFF, Howard Jones, The Cars, Echo & The Bunnymen {and for me all courtesy of the once great WLIR radio station in New York (now reborn and webcasting!)}. Thank you Roland and Curt for your great gift to us. Brought back memories I went ahead and purchased this, received it in a week and quickly ripped it to my computer. I heard the promo for the new X-Box game "gears of war" and said to myself, "I know that song!" Sure enough, after some before work googling I figured out that it was Tears for Fears a group that I listened to quite a bit back in the '80s, the track "Mad World". I've been listening to tracks from this album ever since on my mp3 player. A good trip down memory lane!. . You can see a complete list of all Tears For Fears discography, or go back to the Tears For Fears tabs