Tears For Fears – Songs From The Big Chair (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
Mercury Records (1985)
$95.00
High Quality Japanese First Pressing ~ Vinyl Still In Top Condition! Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics. Features “Shout”, “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”, “Mothers Talk” & More!
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High Quality Japanese First Pressing ~ Vinyl Still In Top Condition! Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics In Japanese & English, Labels Are Clean. The Multi-Platinum Hit-Filled Second Tears For Fears LP Features “Shout”, “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”, “Mothers Talk”, “Head Over Heels” & More!
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS! Some shelf wear, light ring wear.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Shout
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Mothers Talk
Side 2:
I Believe
Broken
Head Over Heels
Broken
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Songs from the Big Chair is not only a commercial triumph, it is an artistic tour de force! If The Hurting was mental anguish, Songs from the Big Chair marks the progression towards emotional healing, a particularly bold sort of catharsis culled from Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith's shared attraction to primal scream therapy. The album also heralded a dramatic maturation in the band's music, away from the synth-pop brand with which it was (unjustly) seared following the debut, and towards a complex, enveloping pop sophistication. The songwriting of Orzabal, Smith, and keyboardist Ian Stanley took a huge leap forward, drawing on reserves of palpable emotion and lovely, protracted melodies that draw just as much on soul and R&B music as they do on immediate pop hooks. The album could almost be called pseudo-conceptual, as each song holds its place and each is integral to the overall tapestry, a single-minded resolve that is easy to overlook when an album is as commercially successful as Songs from the Big Chair. And commercially successful it was, containing no less than three huge commercial radio hits, including the dramatic and insistent march, "Shout" and the shimmering, cascading "Head Over Heels," which, tellingly, is actually part of a song suite on the album. Orzabal and Smith's penchant for theorizing with steely-eyed austerity was mistaken for harsh bombasticism in some quarters, but separated from its era, the album only seems earnestly passionate and immediate, and each song has the same driven intent and the same glistening remoteness. It is not only a commercial triumph, it is an artistic tour de force. And in the loping, percolating "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," Tears for Fears perfectly captured the zeitgeist of the mid-'80s while impossibly managing to also create a dreamy, timeless pop classic. Songs from the Big Chair is one of the finest statements of the decade.