Biography

Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith's debut album as Tears For Fears appeared smack dab in the middle of the '80s UK synth-pop invasion, but it was no mere pop trifle. THE HURTING is full of sophisticated production and accomplished songwriting, using the electronic tools of the day in the service of highly evocative, emotive songs. While it was successful, the follow-up SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR made the duo international stars and turned out one hit single after another. Despite another hit in '89 with "Sowing the Seeds of Love," the band's fanbase quieted down as the years passed, but a cover of the melancholy "Mad World," featured prominently in 2001 film DONNIE DARKO showed that the world had not forgotten.

Top Tracks

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• Advice For The Young At Heart

• Ashes To Ashes

• Break It Down Again

• Brian Wilson Said

• Change

• Closest Thing To Heaven

• Everybody Loves A Happy Ending

• Everybody Wants To Rule The World

• Famous Last Words

• Fish Out Of Water

• Head Over Heels

• Head Over Heels/broken

• I Choose You

• Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams

• Mad World

• Mothers Talk

• Pale Shelter

• Raoul And The Kings Of Spain

• Sea Song

• Shout

• Sketches Of Pain

• Sowing The Seeds Of Love

• Tears Roll Down

• The Marauders

• The Way You Are

• When In Love With A Blind Man

• Who Killed Tangerine?

• Woman In Chains

Discography

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• Everybody Loves a Happy Ending

  New Door Records

  2004

• Closest Thing to Heaven

  BMG International

  2004

• Elemental

  Mercury

  1993