Tears For Fears 'Songs From The Big Chair' 35th Anniversary Of The Iconic 10 Million Selling Album Limited Edition Picture Disc Album Released March 13th 2020 On UMe/Virgin
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pring 2020 sees the 35th anniversary of Tears For Fears iconic ten million-selling album Songs From The Big Chair.
The 35th celebrations will include the release of a limited picture disc version of the album and a reissue of the much sought after super deluxe 4CD/2DVD boxset which currently changes hands for hundreds of dollars.
Songs From The Big Chair was Tears For Fears second album and spawned classic worldwide hit songs such as the US #1 singles Everybody Wants To Rule the World and Shout as well as Head over Heels and Mother's Talk.
Upon its first release, Songs From The Big Chair spent 30 weeks in the UK top ten-album chart, a whole year in the top 30 and only left the charts 18 months later. The story was very much the same all over the world, the album spent five weeks at #1 in the US, and much like the UK, it was in the Billboard Chart for 18 months.
Looking back at the album Roland Orzabal commented, Pop music was still a growth industry. It hadn't sort of stagnated, stalled, diversified into streaming like it is nowadays. We were young, we were both good-looking and we had the right music. As we move further and further from that decade and you keep hearing Everybody Wants To Rule The World, in various forms I do think it is an era-defining album.
Curt Smith You would never normally get three songs that strong in an album. But balance that out with tracks like Listen, The Working Hour; all those things that give it air and give it time to breathe I think is what makes it something more than just the sum of its parts. I think the album had a lot more depth than a lot of those other albums of that time. And albums of more depth tend to stick around longer.
The album is being made available for the first time as a limited-edition picture disc, and due to overwhelming demand, the super deluxe version will be reissued. The 4CD/2DVD box set features a multitude of remixes, live tracks, BBC sessions, B-sides, previously unreleased tracks and 5.1 surround sound and stereo mixes of the album mixed by four-time Grammy nominee, Steven Wilson.
TEARS FOR FEARS SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR PICTURE DISC ALBUM CD 2DVD SUPER DELUXE EDITION
RELEASED MARCH 13th 2020 ON UMe/VIRGIN
Available for pre-order now
Picture Disc
Songs From The Big Chair Box Set
SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR - LIMITED EDITION PICTURE DISC
SIDE ONE
Shout
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Mothers Talk
SIDE TWO
I Believe
Broken
Head Over Heels
Listen
SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR - SUPER DELUXE EDITION - 4CD/2DVD
DISC ONE
Songs from The Big Chair
Shout
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Mothers Talk
I Believe
Broken
Head Over Heels
Listen
B-Sides
The Big Chair
Empire Building
The Marauders
Broken Revisited
The Conflict
The Working Hour (Piano Version)
Pharaohs
When in Love with A Blind Man
Sea Song
DISC TWO
Edited Songs 7 Versions
The Way You Are (7 version)
Mothers Talk (Short Version)
Shout (Edit)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Single version)
Head Over Heels (Dave Bascombe 7 version)
I Believe (A Soulful Re- Recording)
Everybody Wants To Run The World
International 7 Versions
The Way You Are (Edit)
Mothers Talk (US Remix)
Shout (US Single Version)
Everybody Wants to Run the World (Running Version)
Head Over Heels (Hughes 7 Edit aka Radio Mix)
Mothers Talk (Video version)
Listen (Clean intro)
Interview with Curt and Roland
DISC THREE
Remixed Songs 12 Versions, Dubs and more
The Way You Are (Extended version)
Mothers Talk (Extended version)
Shout (Extended remix)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Extended version)
Broken / Head Over Heels / Broken (Preacher Mix)
Mothers Talk (Beat Of The Drum Mix)
Shout (US remix)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Urban mix)
Mothers Talk (US remix alternate)
Shout (Dub)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Instrumental)
Shout (Acapella)
DISC FOUR
Unreleased Songs Promos, Demos & Live tracks
At The BBC
Head Over Heels (Radio 1 Richard Skinner Session)
The Working Hour (Radio 1 Richard Skinner Session)
Broken (Radio 1 Richard Skinner Session)
Live at Massey Hall
Mothers Talk
Broken/Head Over Heels
Memories Fade
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Shout
Early Mixes
Mothers Talk (Early mix)
The Way You Are (Early mix)
Broken (Early mix)
Shout (Early mix)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (alt 7 with brass)
DISC 5 DVD AUDIO
Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix
Shout
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Mothers Talk
I Believe
Broken
Head Over Heels
Listen
Steven Wilson Stereo Mix
Shout
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Mothers Talk
I Believe
Broken
Head Over Heels
Listen
DISC 6 - DVD VIDEO
Scenes From The Big Chair (985 documentary) (1hr 14 mins)
Interview with producer Chris Hughes (2005) (35 mins)
Music Videos
The Way You Are (Music video)
Mothers Talk (Music video)
Mothers Talk (alternative UK video)
Shout (Music video)
Everybody Wants to Rule The World (Music video)
Head Over Heels (Music video)
I Believe (Music video)
Mothers Talk (US version)
Everybody Wants to Run the World (Music video)
Tears for Fears at the BBC
The Way You Are (Top Of The Pops)
Mothers Talk (Top Of The Pops)
Mothers Talk (Top Of The Pops)
Shout (Top Of The Pops)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Wogan)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Top Of The Pops)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Top Of The Pops)
The Working Hour (Wogan)
✔️ Tears For Fears 'Songs From The Big Chair' 35th Anniversary Of The Iconic 10 Million Selling Album Limited Edition Picture Disc Album Released March 13th 2020 On UMe/Virgin
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