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Tears for Fears — Everybody Wants To Rule The World
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CopyrightX
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Posted: May 20, 2013 - 01:45
 
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? ;)

jwilson277
Posted: May 09, 2013 - 16:59
 
That is funny!

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

 



drivingunit103
(around the 4 western provinces)
Posted: Apr 18, 2013 - 18:18
 
Upon uncharacteristic introspect - why can't this be an11...

1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Apr 08, 2013 - 13:06
 
{#Fire} UN-likely Baby_M wrote:
Wonder if Kim Jong Un has this on his MP3 player.....
 


gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Apr 08, 2013 - 13:06
 
One of my favorite albums of the 80s. Lots of memories of me. and others, as young.

Greyjoca
(Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Posted: Apr 08, 2013 - 13:06
 
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...

Baby_M
(a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio)
Posted: Apr 08, 2013 - 13:04
 
Wonder if Kim Jong Un has this on his MP3 player.....

Ahnyer_Keester
(Chicago Il)
Posted: Apr 08, 2013 - 13:03
 
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.

Sasha2001
Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 17:48
 
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.
martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 17:44
 
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.

dragonlady
(Pasadena, CA)
Posted: Jan 14, 2013 - 14:23
 
Loved it, love it, will love it

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Jan 14, 2013 - 14:22
 
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 {#Think}

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Dec 14, 2012 - 05:22
 
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.

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Oct 12, 2012 - 16:14
 
Holy Sh^&%%$!  I haven't rated this yet?  A solid 10.

thais
Posted: Oct 12, 2012 - 11:50
 

Sorry, but it is just a fair example of the 80´s worst.
Just crap for me.
My opinion, of course.
     



black321
(Bong Island)
Posted: Oct 12, 2012 - 11:48
 
Bring back the mullet!

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Oct 02, 2012 - 06:43
 
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.



apd
(Toronto, On)
Posted: Aug 31, 2012 - 17:56
 
Makes me want to wear a sharp suit and do some syncronised dance-steps on top of a sand dune.

coy
(san antonio)
Posted: Aug 31, 2012 - 17:54
 
 Beaker wrote:


nice one beaker {#Heartkiss}
 



rjewyo
(Ventura, CA)
Posted: Aug 10, 2012 - 10:45
 
Was at Santa Barbara Bowl to see Don Henley...he did this and the audience went nuts!!!! Great rendition! Great show too!

JIan
(SW Desert, AZ, USA)
Posted: Aug 10, 2012 - 10:44
 
a 7 for nostalgic reasons; right back to high school for me.

yuel
(Taka-Tuka-Land)
Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 07:52
 
shplody wrote:
From Gary JuIes to Tears for Fears. I just had to google Everybody Wants to Rule the Mad World...
 

today he did it again....
{#Bananasplit}

kysmet
(Central Florida)
Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 07:50
 
One of those songs that instantly transports me back to a different time and place.

shplody
Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 21:35
 
From Gary JuIes to Tears for Fears. I just had to google Everybody Wants to Rule the Mad World...

Bozo
(Steeler Penguin Pirate land)
Posted: Jun 08, 2012 - 06:59
 

Saw them in the early 90's, and they were a damn good live band.



TJS
(Bradley, Il)
Posted: Jun 08, 2012 - 06:59
 
Time warp straight back to high school.

bachbeet
Posted: May 29, 2012 - 00:14
 
 Proclivities 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.
 
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."

h8rhater
Posted: May 07, 2012 - 12:48
 
 Sjaaks wrote:
Aarrghhh, how can you play this after 'Mad World' by Gary Jules. Totally unfitting...

{#Snooty}
 
Duh!

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 06:51
 
 Randomax wrote:
with so much pap coming out in the 80's Tears stood out as fantastic, poignant songwriters!  Once in a while the masses get it right and make a hit out of a song....can't hold that against them! 
 
"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.

NeuroGeek
(Just Way Out There)
Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 06:29
 
 Blastcat900 wrote:
80's crap
 
but really awesome 80's crap

Blastcat900
Posted: Apr 05, 2012 - 19:20
 
80's crap

obstetricus
Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 13:03
 
Wow....must be National Real Genius day...go rent your VHS copy today

billybob123
(Southern California)
Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 12:59
 
okay, killer segue Bill from Mad World!

madebytim
(Denmark)
Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 09:57
 
Ho Hum

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 09:54
 
 NUCLEARDOC wrote:
DEFINITELY THE BEST SONG FROM THE 80'S !!
 

For you, apparently - not me.  It is a great tune though.

mmoyer
(Silicon Valley)
Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 01:21
 
It may have been clever but it was not pleasant.

 Paul_Skybreakers wrote:


Because Gary Jules' version of 'Mad World' is a remake of the original by Tears for Fears. That's why......{#Beat}
 



Paul_Skybreakers
(Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 01:18
 
 Sjaaks wrote:
Aarrghhh, how can you play this after 'Mad World' by Gary Jules. Totally unfitting...

{#Snooty}
 

Because Gary Jules' version of 'Mad World' is a remake of the original by Tears for Fears. That's why......{#Beat}

mmoyer
(Silicon Valley)
Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 01:18
 
Yes, blech! What a jarring segue. {#Hand}


 Sjaaks wrote:
Aarrghhh, how can you play this after 'Mad World' by Gary Jules. Totally unfitting...

{#Snooty}
 



Sjaaks
(Horst, Netherlands)
Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 01:13
 
Aarrghhh, how can you play this after 'Mad World' by Gary Jules. Totally unfitting...

{#Snooty}

bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: May 15, 2011 - 10:08
 
wow, I forgot how good this tune was.

bachbeet
Posted: Apr 13, 2011 - 19:38
 
This song/album was my first exposure to TFF.  I really liked it.  Then I got their Hurting LP.  More good tunes.  One of the best 80s groups.

clwguy
Posted: Mar 13, 2011 - 08:30
 
Still one of my favourite songs. I also have Elemental and Raoul and the Kings of Spain — both excellent albums.

 LuvWilloughby wrote:
Roland Orzibal is a musical genius. Any doubts check out the albums Elemental and Raoul and the Kings of Spain.
 



GuiltyFeat
(Ra'anana)
Posted: Feb 10, 2011 - 00:33
 
 chedak wrote:
I felt the same way you did also.  I really loved their first album and had to get used to the overplayed second one.

 slr242 wrote:
When this album came out, it seemed to me that lots of us who'd loved their first album kinda felt hoodwinked. Here was a band with an amazing and pretty unique first effort, who sounded like no one else. Then their second album (this one) came out, and it seemed blatantly commercial by comparison. Of course they got a lot of radio play from the stuff on this album, so it worked for them. But, it took me a long time to accept (and like) this album. I'll always like the first album better. Each to his own. :-)

 
 
I think there was always an admission on their part that they wrote these songs with an eye on cracking America with some great tunes. Nevertheless this is a clear case of art and commerce not being mutually exclusive as this is superb and successful pop song.

They were never the same when they stopped being miserable. I saw them at Wembley Arena on the Seeds of Love tour and they were just too jolly. I too preferred them when the dreams in which they were dying were the best they ever had. They barely managed to sustain the sense of existential despair into this second album, but then life just got too good. Shame.


Foot
Posted: Jan 09, 2011 - 17:09
 
They made catchy pop tunes for the 80's but boy, were they an awful live act circa 1985.  Among the worst shows I've ever seen & remember walking out.

chedak
(Somewhere-over-the-rainbow, KS)
Posted: Jan 09, 2011 - 16:45
 
I felt the same way you did also.  I really loved their first album and had to get used to the overplayed second one.

 slr242 wrote:
When this album came out, it seemed to me that lots of us who'd loved their first album kinda felt hoodwinked. Here was a band with an amazing and pretty unique first effort, who sounded like no one else. Then their second album (this one) came out, and it seemed blatantly commercial by comparison. Of course they got a lot of radio play from the stuff on this album, so it worked for them. But, it took me a long time to accept (and like) this album. I'll always like the first album better. Each to his own. :-)

 



jimbaca
(Albuquerque)
Posted: Nov 07, 2010 - 07:55
 
Agreed...
 NUCLEARDOC wrote:
DEFINITELY THE BEST SONG FROM THE 80'S !!
 



NUCLEARDOC
Posted: Oct 28, 2010 - 13:54
 
DEFINITELY THE BEST SONG FROM THE 80'S !!

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 19:21
 
Funny how an apple rolled out of my car today and I left it in the street for the animals to eat.  Isn't that weird?  {#Snooty}

Alexandria
(Alexandria, VA)
Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 19:20
 
Pure pap for then people... Some of the most boring, insipid dreck from the '80s. Now, what can I do ti get that awful chorus outta my head?

JBarDom
(Mexico)
Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 19:18
 
Great warmer for opening the dance floor at the disco! Good ol' days in the 80's.