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Summary: Not Their Best, But Better Than The Rest
Comment: I love Tears for Fears. I love their over production, attention to detail, overlayering of tracks, and the general feel of their music. They represent the best of the 80's, of that there is no doubt. Seeds is not their best album, but it is a spectacular blend of many styles and has an overall feeling of otherworldliness. It seems that TFF is so often forgotten by MTV and VH1 when they speak of the eighties. All the hairband trash going down at that time and then you had the beauty and thoughfulness of TFF. I personally think that Everbody Wants To Rule the World was the best video and best song of the eighties (I know it was on Big Chair). Seeds is a very complex Beatles infused outing and worth every penny to own. I just wish these two would keep creating more music in this time of so much stuff being produced that is not worth listening to.
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Summary: Not Quite Yer Average 80s Album
Comment: It was 1989, and I guess most of the thinking musicians were fed up with operatic sequencers and sunny shiny pop fodder of the second leg of that decade.
The Seeds of Love definitely represents those early turning points when musicians were yearning for that 1960s organic feeling - something that the music press & critics of the late 1980s were yet to digest until alternative rock came along in 1991, and retro was back in. The fate of SOL, though commercially still successful, was akin to Simple Minds' Street Fighting Years. Music critics panned it, and labelled such works as 'pretentious', 'over-produced'. You name it.
The songs on SOL are comparably less concise than TFF's two previous brilliant outings, and it demonstrates another musical leap forward. Though I personally like all TFF albums, SOL is the one I always come back to listening.
Sowing the Seeds of Love:
this song attempts to condense everything 1967 into one pop song - call it a rewritten version of 'I am the Walrus' / 'Penny Lane' / 'Hello Goodbye' all meshed together into one. Despite the catchy chorus that everyone remembers well, it's surprisingly the verses, the interludes and the popping musical details that makes this song even more interesting. Orchestral crescendos, leaping vocoder passages, leslie'd hammond organs. It's over-produced pop at its very best.
Customer Rating:
Summary: still great
Comment: The progressive zenith, led into by The Hurting and Songs from the Big Chair, Seeds of Love is my favorite of the TFF albums. This has so many works that still hold up 20 years later. Advice for the Young at Heart is one of my all-time faves. Curt's melodic voice was really at a career peak, and married the production collaboration Roland brought, makes this a quintessential album to own. Unfortunate they would never repeat its beauty.
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Summary: exceptional
Comment: Tears For Fears is an honest and poetic band bar none. The writers are skilled, well-intentioned, and know how to produce and arrange a full, multi-satisfying genre of music in their own right. Only bands like the Beatles and Seal have been able to compel me in so much with their well-produced, orchestral talent.
Needless to say I would recommend this band and especially, this album to move a spirited thirst for those who appreciate excellent writing, rich vocals, and lyrics that capture all of a listeners soul.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Should be 6 stars
Comment: This is probably one of the best sounding albums of all time, Tears were
at their peak in the studio and boy it shows.
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