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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Obscure, The Surreal, and The Downright Insane, 22 May 2006
With any B-Sides and rarities compilation, it's hard to know exactly what to expect. On the occasion, B-Sides are often just as likeable as their A-Sides, though more often than not, they're consigned to the flipside for a perfectly understandable reason.
'Saturnine Martial and Lunatic' is a patchwork quilt, speaking metaphorically. Musically, it's a huge, defiantly surreal smorgasbord of varying influences and styles - there's some severely experimental works (Schrodinger's Cat, My Life In The Suicide Ranks, Pharaohs, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams) hidden amongst this treasure-chest, which, depending on your taste, you will either take or leave.
However, there are some incredible records on this compilation which I personally found hard to believe are mere 'sin-bin' consigments. Fans of TFF's rockier side, particularly 1993's 'Elemental', will be at home with the sublime 'Lord of Karma' and 'New Star', both which I'm sure would fair well in even today's charts. There's surprising fruit born out of 'Sea Song', a Robert Wyatt cover which was the B-Side to 'I Believe' - a mellow, yet impossibly catchy song which I'm sure will at least tempt your curiosity, if not seduce your ears. Bowie cover 'Ashes to Ashes', dance-influenced 'Bloodletting Go' and the quite frankly insane (and previously unseen on any other TFF LP asides the remaster of 'The Hurting') 'The Way You Are' are all also worthy of mention.
Though there ARE some incredible songs on here, for the majority it's a collection which will only satisfy hardcore TFF fans. Definitely worth a look by all accounts.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not what you might expect.., 24 Jan 2003
Having bought all their other albums,and loving them all,this was quite a different album altogether.Most of the tracks are instrumental,some are potential b-sides and others just great songs that never made it to their various albums in the past.
If you love their music then i still recommend you get it,as it's an essential addition to their collection.
I've played it twice and it's already starting to grow on me!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A little obscure but still great, 23 Aug 2007
As a loyal fan of Tears For Fears and someone who in general thinks that Roland Orzabal is the Messiah i will listen to absolutely anything produced by the man himself. I have even gone back to 'Graduate' roots to find Roland and Kurt together and looking young enough to have just left primary school.
If you can get this album for less than £7 including P&P, then for me you have got a bargain. Just listening to the rendition of the Bowie classic 'Ashes to Ashes' is worth that money on it's own. Then, when you add to it New Star & Lord of Karma you wonder why they were not single releases, because they cream songs like 'I Believe' and 'Woman in Chains'; which of course are not obscure enough to be on this album.
I'm also quite fond of 'Sea Song' (one of the very few cover versions they have done) and 'The Way you Are', which are on this album and songs that i play regularly.
On a final note, if you haven't heard Roland's rendition of 'Creep', by radiohead; go to youtube and type in creep by Tears for Fears and prepare to be blown away.
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