Songs from the Big Chair

Occupation

  • Vocals / Bass: Curt Smith
  • Vocals / Guitar / Keyboard: Roland Orzabal
  • Keyboard: Ian Stanley
  • Drums: Manny Elias

Songs From the Big Chair ( German Songs from the big chair ) is the second studio album by the British band Tears for Fears. The album was released February 25, 1985 at Phonogram and Mercury Records and is the genre New Wave attributed. Thus, the band reached the global commercial breakthrough. The album spent five weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard 200 and was charged with five platinum records sold the RIAA for more than five million albums and three platinum records of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI ) for more than 900,000 records sold excellent. The album also managed to the top of the Media Control Charts and was awarded a gold record of IFPI Germany for more than 250,000 copies sold. With singles such as Shout and Everybody Wants to Rule the World, the band achieved two number - one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 Everybody Wants to Rule the World won the 1986 Brit Award for Best British Single. Orzabal was in 1986 with the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors awarded as Outstanding songwriter.

Formation and style

The album title refers to the winner of an Emmy television series Sybil, whose protagonist suffers from a multiple personality and only then something can feel like happiness, when she sits in the big chair her therapist. The published as a B- side of the single Shout Big Chair contains samples of dialogue of the TV series.

Orzabal and Smith changed in the sequel to The Hurting the sound of the melancholic and often strange and humorless mood of their debut toward a brighter and more cosmopolitan sound. And they continued doing the cast of The Hurting faithful; Chris Hughes served as the debut as a producer and helped Elias when programming the rhythms. Hughes sat in the recordings for Shout even himself on drums. Mel Collins was also for the saxophone part at The Working Hour back again with. The songs come again from the pen of Orzabal, but the band members Ian Stanley and Manny Elias were more involved in the compositions and are co-authors of Shout. Producer and drummer Chris Hughes was also involved with the creative process and is adjacent to Orzabal and Stanley co-author of Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Another musician Neil Taylor come on guitar, William Gregory on saxophone, Andy Davis on the wing and next to Hughes also Jerry Marotta on drums used.

Even countries influenced by psychology and in particular the primary therapy texts remains faithful Orzabal. Especially Shout is often associated with the work of Arthur Janov Primal Scream in combination, on whose work goes back even the band's name. In interviews, however, was expressed repeatedly by Smith, the text should encourage to protest. I Believe was written by Orzabal with Robert Wyatt in mind, dedicated to this musician and alongside Broken the only single composition Orzabals.

Title list

The album was released in 1999 as a digitally remastered version on CD. In addition to the recordings from the original album, the following titles were used as bonus tracks:

The album was released again in 2006, this time as a deluxe edition on two CDs and get on with numerous additional pieces, mostly remixes.

CD1

CD2

Publications and chart success

The published February 25, 1985 album spent over a year in the UK and U.S. album charts and has won numerous platinum and gold records. Up until the release of the remastered version of 1999, more than eight million albums were sold in the United States and Great Britain.

Four singles were released from the album: On August 6, 1984 Mother's appeared talc. On November 19, 1984 Shout was coupled followed by Everybody Wants to Rule the World on March 18, 1985, Head Over Heelsam June 10, 1985 in bulk. Britain was on September 30, 1985 also I Believe in a newly recorded version (A Soulful Re - Recording) published.

The new version betextete Everybody Wants to Run the World was published in May 1986 on the occasion of the "Sport Aid" initiative only in the UK and reached # 5 on the UK Singles Chart.

Reception

The Music Express attested the album at the time a " both musically and lyrically rather combative tenor ".

Stanton Swihart of Allmusic describes the album as " a giant step forward, leaning on the support striking emotion and loving, long melodies that are so grounded in soul and R & B music as in immediate Pophooks ", and assigns four and a half stars out of five.

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