Bill, you're not very subtle with your placement of this song immediately following Paul Simon's "American Tune" are you!? So what are you saying? ;)

That is funny!

Baby_M wrote: 

Upon uncharacteristic introspect - why can't this be an11...

 UN-likely Baby_M wrote: 

One of my favorite albums of the 80s. Lots of memories of me. and others, as young.

This is great, thanks Bill, but there is a lot of other stuff in their discography that we should hear - Raoul & the Kings, and from Elemental, many directions, many mixes. Oh, and I still remember, me about 13 years old, observing some high-schooler blasting another TFF song on a bona fide boom box: jean jacket, bleached hair, biker boots. A bit of an art-geek/bad-boy mashup still memorable...

Wonder if Kim Jong Un has this on his MP3 player.....

One of the top three songs of the entire 1980s. And a perfect segue from Mad World. Tears for Fears and "world" theme. You sir are a genius.

There's a cover story in the recent edition of New York magazine about how taste and behaviors developed during the high school years tend 2 dominate the way we think throughout our lives. Which probably explains why I love this song so much.

Wow I thing these guys look like Eugeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby for the Pitts Penquins. OK the hockey strike cause my brain to shrivel a little. I am Canadian, eh.

Loved it, love it, will love it

This is a 7.2 and Springsteen's "The Promised Land" rates a 6.5? Wow. Love this place, but sometimes it leaves me scratching my old, gray head

I always thought these guys were overreaching juuuuuust a bit—you know: big thoughts, big hair. But for all of that, they were a fun rock'n'roll band.

Holy Sh^&%%$!  I haven't rated this yet?  A solid 10.

Bring back the mullet!

What is amazing in retrospect, giving what a huge song this became in the US, is that I first heard this song way over on the left side of the dial, on college radio.  Less established bands had a huge problem breaking through the big established rock radio stations - at least in New York - which fed us a steady diet of Bruce Juice and getting the Led out and on and on.

Makes me want to wear a sharp suit and do some syncronised dance-steps on top of a sand dune.

 Beaker wrote: 

a 7 for nostalgic reasons; right back to high school for me.

shplody wrote: 

today he did it again....

One of those songs that instantly transports me back to a different time and place.

From Gary JuIes to Tears for Fears. I just had to google Everybody Wants to Rule the Mad World...

Time warp straight back to high school.

 Proclivities wrote: 
I completely agree and have said pretty much the same for a long time.  One can always find crappy music from any era.  And every era has some terrific music too.  The 70s had some crappy disco and it also had PF and Steely Dan (not to mention the Clash's London Calling).  You covered the 60s crap which existed right by the Beatles, Stones, and Dylan.  I am quite sure there was some lousy music during the time of the greats like Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven (just to mention3 of the giants of Classical).  Of course, it's hard to recall the crap from that long ago because: 1) I wasn't alive then; and, 2) that crap has not stood the test of time and has deservedly "died."

 Sjaaks wrote: 
Duh!

 Randomax wrote: 
"So much pap" came out of every musical era.  I'm not sure why so many people here (not you, particularly) want to imply that there was more during the 1980s.  You must remember The Archies, Tommy Roe, Tommy James & The Shondells, Tony Orlando & Dawn, Helen Reddy, The Carpenters, B.J. Thomas, Shaun Cassidy, The Eagles, etc...  "Pap" artists, all, and they all had number one hits in either the 1960s or '70s.

 Blastcat900 wrote: 
but really awesome 80's crap