Tears For Fears - Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
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Submitted by Κώστας Μπρέλλας on 13/04/2004 - 12:53.
Tears For Fears - Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
01.everybody loves a happy ending / 02.closest thing to heaven / 03.call me
mellow / 04.size of sorrow / 05.who killed Tangerine? / 06.quiet
ones / 07.who you are / 08.the devil / 09.secret world / 10.killing with
kindness / 11.ladybird / 12.last days on earth
Sanctuary Records / June 2004
It’s been more than 20 years since that album with the crying child on the cover
was released and the perfect electropop songs of the british duo touched my
teenage heart.
“The Hurting” was the absolute guide for teenagers and their
fears, done with naïve sensitivity but in such a mature way! Everything was
placed so nice and clear in it. It became immediately one of my favorite records
at that time..still is!
Then came “shout”, a more heavy sound and a universal
success with “songs from the big chair”. Tears For Fears were superstars, even
more successful than Duran Duran at that period, and the guys weren’t gorgeous,
right?
Songwriting skills, who can doubt about that?
A couple of years
later they (re)discovered The Beatles…”the seeds of love” was a far cry from
what I expected from them..I lost touch..I was an 80’s kid and they outdated
me..sorry guys, bye….
But it was that solo effort of Roland Orzabal some
years ago that made me remember what a genious composer he is! “Tomcats
screaming outside” was a brilliant album and the announcement of TFF reunion was
definitely something to look forward to..
And maybe I was too naïve to
believe that the guy is craving for the past and would like to revisit his youth
through Tears For Fears. I could see no other reason why he’d like to record
under the TFF name..and please, don’t mention bank accounts..
Unfortunately
it’s not like that at all..Tears For Fears don’t seem nostalgic about “the
hurting” years but only about the so called “mature” period of theirs..That
can’t be happening! Can it??
Well, yes….
“Everybody loves a happy
ending” could be called “seeds of love-the sequel” or “I can’t get over sgt.
Peppers lonely heart..”
I’m not a person that judges the book by the cover,
but just take a look at it! You can put it next to your 60’s -70’s psychedelic
record collection and it’ll fit perfectly!
Then, you move to the content and
feel the real hurting…The letting-you-down one..
Ok, maybe the songs are
good, I don’t think that Orzabal can write bad songs. It’s the direction of the
band in 2004 that bothers me..And so do song titles like “ladybird” or “who
killed Tangerine?”...Well, punk killed Tangerine..and new wave buried her…You
should know about that mr. Orzabal!!!
I’m not nagging..I know that someone
might say that “call me mellow” is pretty nice with its “dear
prudence”-ish guitar and the poppy chorus (a reminiscent of “head over heels”)
and “quiet ones” is a very good guitar-pop song, but the rest of the
album seems drowned in confusion trying really hard to marry “sgt. peppers
lonely hearts club band” to Bowie’s “young Americans”….
And it’s a shame that
this advanced cd I got has no information, cos I’d like to know what Curt Smith
is doing on this record, except from singing the more soulful tunes of
course..
I don’t know..I might be a bit confused too, but what I really know
is that Tears For Fears failed where Soft Cell succeeded with their reunion
album. It’s called memory lane…that would be enough, for me at
least…
was released and the perfect electropop songs of the british duo touched my
teenage heart.
“The Hurting” was the absolute guide for teenagers and their
fears, done with naïve sensitivity but in such a mature way! Everything was
placed so nice and clear in it. It became immediately one of my favorite records
at that time..still is!
Then came “shout”, a more heavy sound and a universal
success with “songs from the big chair”. Tears For Fears were superstars, even
more successful than Duran Duran at that period, and the guys weren’t gorgeous,
right?
Songwriting skills, who can doubt about that?
A couple of years
later they (re)discovered The Beatles…”the seeds of love” was a far cry from
what I expected from them..I lost touch..I was an 80’s kid and they outdated
me..sorry guys, bye….
But it was that solo effort of Roland Orzabal some
years ago that made me remember what a genious composer he is! “Tomcats
screaming outside” was a brilliant album and the announcement of TFF reunion was
definitely something to look forward to..
And maybe I was too naïve to
believe that the guy is craving for the past and would like to revisit his youth
through Tears For Fears. I could see no other reason why he’d like to record
under the TFF name..and please, don’t mention bank accounts..
Unfortunately
it’s not like that at all..Tears For Fears don’t seem nostalgic about “the
hurting” years but only about the so called “mature” period of theirs..That
can’t be happening! Can it??
Well, yes….
“Everybody loves a happy
ending” could be called “seeds of love-the sequel” or “I can’t get over sgt.
Peppers lonely heart..”
I’m not a person that judges the book by the cover,
but just take a look at it! You can put it next to your 60’s -70’s psychedelic
record collection and it’ll fit perfectly!
Then, you move to the content and
feel the real hurting…The letting-you-down one..
Ok, maybe the songs are
good, I don’t think that Orzabal can write bad songs. It’s the direction of the
band in 2004 that bothers me..And so do song titles like “ladybird” or “who
killed Tangerine?”...Well, punk killed Tangerine..and new wave buried her…You
should know about that mr. Orzabal!!!
I’m not nagging..I know that someone
might say that “call me mellow” is pretty nice with its “dear
prudence”-ish guitar and the poppy chorus (a reminiscent of “head over heels”)
and “quiet ones” is a very good guitar-pop song, but the rest of the
album seems drowned in confusion trying really hard to marry “sgt. peppers
lonely hearts club band” to Bowie’s “young Americans”….
And it’s a shame that
this advanced cd I got has no information, cos I’d like to know what Curt Smith
is doing on this record, except from singing the more soulful tunes of
course..
I don’t know..I might be a bit confused too, but what I really know
is that Tears For Fears failed where Soft Cell succeeded with their reunion
album. It’s called memory lane…that would be enough, for me at
least…
Memories fade…indeed!
Kostas Brellas
