Tears For Fears - "Songs From The Big Chair", Mercury 1st PR NM, Shrink--Hype
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Dr. John's Spin Factory takes you back to 1985 with Tears For Fears, Songs From The Big Chair. Well produced with excellent sound and many chart-topping songs this copy is in near mint condition and sounds especially good after ultrasonic cleaning with the Kirmuss Audio cleaning system. As for the music, this truly is good stuff from start to finish. How good? Here is Stanton Swihart of AllMusic to give us some insight...
"If The Hurting was mental anguish, Songs from the Big Chair marks the progression towards emotional healing, a particularly bold sort of catharsis culled from Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith's shared attraction to primal scream therapy. The album also heralded a dramatic maturation in the band's music, away from the synth-pop brand with which it was (unjustly) seared following the debut, and towards a complex, enveloping pop sophistication. The songwriting of Orzabal, Smith, and keyboardist Ian Stanley took a huge leap forward, drawing on reserves of palpable emotion and lovely, protracted melodies that draw just as much on soul and R&B music as they do on immediate pop hooks. The album could almost be called pseudo-conceptual, as each song holds its place and each is integral to the overall tapestry, a single-minded resolve that is easy to overlook when an album is as commercially successful as Songs from the Big Chair. And commercially successful it was, containing no less than three huge commercial radio hits, including the dramatic and insistent march, "Shout" and the shimmering, cascading "Head Over Heels," which, tellingly, is actually part of a song suite on the album. Orzabal and Smith's penchant for theorizing with steely-eyed austerity was mistaken for harsh bombasticism in some quarters, but separated from its era, the album only seems earnestly passionate and immediate, and each song has the same driven intent and the same glistening remoteness. It is not only a commercial triumph, it is an artistic tour de force. And in the loping, percolating "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," Tears for Fears perfectly captured the zeitgeist of the mid-'80s while impossibly managing to also create a dreamy, timeless pop classic. Songs from the Big Chair is one of the finest statements of the decade."
This is an especially good find, as this is a first pressing, complete with Hype sticker and still held firmly in its 1985 shrink wrap.
Good luck! May every day bring you ever more deeply satisfying music... Dr. John
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