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20 Years Ago Today
Posted by JeffLeopard on 1 September 2009 - 8:43pm.
...the finest ever Beatles pastiche gave the moribund, SAW-ridden UK singles chart a shot in the arm:
great tune, brilliant arrangement, with a bit of depth and noble intentions.
To me at least, it was a harbinger of better things just around the corner. Remember the welter of great music in the Autumn of 89?
Pity the LP wasn't nearly as good.
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Mmmm.
It's no Piggy In The Middle, is it?
Noel Gallagher
would kill his own brother to write a song as good as that ;-)
Totally agree - great tune
Lest we forget
Refresh my memory
On Taxman (to which Start! skilfully pays tribute, of course), which Beatle plays not only the iconic bassline but also the fantastic guitar solo?
Just interested...
:-)
Well,
I've got a one in four chance of being right haven't I? ;o)(I love it here). I'm off to start Macca thread, do join in won't you?
It's brilliant isn't it
I especially loved the sound of the drums on it. I'm not sure what the technical term is, but they sounded so floppy, or sloppy - like Ringo. I mean this in a good way...
i LOVE that era of tears for fears
i recall the album (seeds of love) getting 5/5 in Q when i were a lad. roland orzabal's obviously a complete dobber but he wrote some good tunes back in the day.
I seem to recall that era TFF being one of the bands
that Q couldn't stop going on about. The other was, of course, World Party.
Ahh!
The soundtrack to my Open University Summer school in Bath, where I (a) was congratulated for discovering anti-matter after getting a science experiment all to cock, and (b)went to an acid house disco in a converted public urinal and felt very, very old as saucer-eyed teenagers cavorted around me. Being reminded it was 20 years ago makes me feel positively antiquated. Good tune though, innit? Didn't TFF fall out grievously over that album after Orzabal scrapped it in its entirety & made Curt Smith do all his parts again?
That song reminds me
of the summer spent working for a team of brickies on a building site, working off the debt from Uni. I can remember loading cement-mixer in time with it. Earned a small fortune as we were paid by how many bricks were laid rather than a daily rate so we just kept going...and going.
Happenstance
Tears for Fears gave the impression of being very 'of the time' with this song, given the impact The Stone Roses had at the same time. Both bigging up the Beatles in their druggy phase. I think it was coincidence rather than bandwagon-jumping by TFF and their career never really got going again after, did it.
This track and Mad World - right up there as truly great songs from the 1980s.