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Track Listings
| 1. The Hurting |
| 2. Mad World |
| 3. Pale Shelter |
| 4. Ideas As Opiates |
| 5. Memories Fade |
| 6. Suffer The Children |
| 7. Watch Me Bleed |
| 8. Change |
| 9. The Prisoner |
| 10. Start Of The Breakdown |
| 11. Pale Shelter |
| 12. The Way You Are |
| 13. Mad World |
| 14. Change |
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I remember first having this album on a bootleg tape from a market when it was first released back in 1983.
I can also remember not fully appreciating it as I was about 14 at the time, but after all these years in its remastered format you can appreciate this work.
It was a standout album of the 80's with its wonderful dark overtones and its subject matters.
It is an amazing debut album.
Alongside the well known first big hits 'Mad World' and 'Change' you have my personal favourite TFF song 'Pale shelter' you are surrounded by deeply felt personal songs from Roland Orzabal. Though they are deeply personal ' Memories fade' a good example, you never fail to appreciate the darkness and beauty in this album and its quite uncommercial, despite it being a Number 1 here in England.
Added to this addition is another gem from TFF 'The Way you are' which sadly isn't on a Greatest Hits / best of package which is a shame as its a nice song and I remember having it as a single.
I can also remember not fully appreciating it as I was about 14 at the time, but after all these years in its remastered format you can appreciate this work.
It was a standout album of the 80's with its wonderful dark overtones and its subject matters.
It is an amazing debut album.
Alongside the well known first big hits 'Mad World' and 'Change' you have my personal favourite TFF song 'Pale shelter' you are surrounded by deeply felt personal songs from Roland Orzabal. Though they are deeply personal ' Memories fade' a good example, you never fail to appreciate the darkness and beauty in this album and its quite uncommercial, despite it being a Number 1 here in England.
Added to this addition is another gem from TFF 'The Way you are' which sadly isn't on a Greatest Hits / best of package which is a shame as its a nice song and I remember having it as a single.
A dark, personal and brilliant album - buy it.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It's ironic that my favourite track on this superb album when I bought it on vinyl in 1983 was (and still is) Memories Fade - ironic because listening to it again after all this time evokes such strong memories of my mid-teenage years. And surely the best of these was of going to see my first 'real' gig (accompanied by my first 'real' girlfriend!) in Margate in December 1983. And the band we saw? Tears For Fears - who played the whole album tracklist and more - the experience just blew me away! Fantastic! There isn't a weak song on this album - it's very catchy, very 'poppy' - but each track carries a deeper, thought-provoking lyric, and it's this just as much as the music that originally kept me listening and interested when other records of that era just got lost in my collection. Tears For Fears were the first band I'd heard that managed to combine a real intelligence with strong, catchy rhythms and melodies. Quite an achievement for a debut album. Although I still have the original on vinyl, I no longer have a turntable on which to play it, so I'm really pleased to have found it on CD - and the extra tracks are a real bonus. And what became of the girlfriend? We split up a few weeks after the gig! Ahhh! ;o)
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The has to be one of the landmark albums of the 80s, and a damn sight better than the more commerical "Songs from the big chair". Songs like "Ideas as Opiates" and "Memories Fade" really tug at the heart strings. There's not one song that is out of place on this album. I first bought this back in 1985 on cassette, and I still play it to this day. That shows how little it has dated. "The hurting" , in my opinion, has been massively overlooked because of the later success of "Songs from the big chair" - but to these ears, "The hurting" was an album way ahead of its time and far surpasses anything that came after. If you are trying to build an 80's collection, this HAS to be on your hit list....
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Still fresh after 30 years
I remember this on Vinyl 30 years ago, Mad Word appeared out of nowhere, followed by Change,I purchased and was amazed at how good this debut album was, Whilst updating my... Read more
Published 4 months ago by John Packer
tears for fears
excellent cd by one the best bands of the 80s they were a underated band that had great singles on there with change pale shelter and mad world
Published 4 months ago by mozza
Exorcising Childhoods
I was there! T4F's debut album appealed to the likes of me, an angst-ridden seventeen-year-old who'd been asked to leave the parental home. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Nicholas Casley
Not as good as expected
Ordered this after watching a re-run of Ashes to Ashes and was a little disappointed at the quality of the album. Only a couple of really good tunes, the rest are fillers
Published 5 months ago by K. L. Naylor
Brilliant
This is a brilliant album from an underrated band. I think it's even better than SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR. Terrific melodies and deep lyrics.
Published 17 months ago by MrHarry
Great Songs, poor recording, mixing & mastering "Hurt" the album
There are so many good songs on the Hurting but it sounds like a demo tape compared to Big Chair, the remastered CD sounds a bit better, but what it needs is completely new post... Read more
Published 18 months ago by R. Walker
Was keen to listen to it again after all these years
Although I was keen to listen to this after 25 years or so, I soon tired of it, and it's back in the glovebox.
Published on 10 Nov 2009 by JNZ
Should have bought it when it came out
Simply my favourite Tears for Fears album and one of my favourite albums of all time, it is one everybody should own. Read more
Published on 10 Jun 2009 by Billy Shears
TFF are Go!
My favourite TFF album by a mile. When the boys made "The Hurting" they had no idea if they'd ever make another album, so they made sure the whole thing was chock full of... Read more
Published on 16 May 2007 by Coincidence Vs Fate
my teenage years..in a nutshell!
i can remember taking the afternoon off school to buy this album on vinyl!!! that seems like yesterday and it still holds a special place in my heart!!! Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2006 by Mr. Nathan Armstrong
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