Tears For Fears - The Hurting

I recently bought a CD of rock group Tears For Fears live concert from1985, playing the music from their first two albums -- The Hurting, and Songs From The Big Chair.

TFF, as fans like to refer to the group, was my third favourite group in the 1980s, behind Phil Collins (including Genesis), and Madonna.

While I've had a copy of The Hurting for a few years now, I have not really played it much. Maybe it is because of the heavy theme of family dysfunction. This now classic album cover features a young boy sitting down with his head in his hands looking as if he is crying. The songs are told as from a child's point of view within a family. Maybe it was just the technical standards of some of the tracks on the CD. For example the title track which appears first could have been produced a bit better with maybe more volume in the bass track prior to final mixing. But this may have more to do with the then new Compact Disc technology which appeared at the same time as The Hurting did. To test this theory I'd have to acquire a cassette tape or LP copy of it to compare.

The tracks that I have not really paid any attention to now were The Hurting, Memories Fade, Suffer the Children, and The Start of the Breakdown. Listening to these four tracks can be quite intense, and I recommend you not listen to them too often because of the likelihood you may feel worse off. Everything in moderation as they say.