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Tears for Fears
Artist Icon Songs From the Big Chair (1985)
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Songs From the Big Chair (englisch für „Lieder aus dem großen Sessel“) ist das zweite Studioalbum der britischen Band Tears For Fears. Das Album erschien am 25. Februar 1985 bei Phonogram bzw. Mercury Records und wird dem Genre New Wave zugerechnet. Damit erreichte die Band den weltweiten kommerziellen Durchbruch. Das Album hielt sich fünf Wochen an der Spitze der amerikanischen Billboard 200 und wurde mit fünf Platin-Schallplatten der RIAA für mehr als fünf Millionen verkaufte Tonträger und drei Platin-Schallplatten der British Phonographic Industry (BPI) für mehr als 900.000 verkaufte Tonträger ausgezeichnet. Das Album schaffte es auch an die Spitze der deutschen Albumcharts und wurde mit einer Goldenen Schallplatte des IFPI Deutschland für mehr als 250.000 verkaufte Tonträger ausgezeichnet. Mit den Singleauskoppelungen Shout und Everybody Wants to Rule the World erreichte die Band zwei Nummer-eins-Hits in den Billboard Hot 100. Everybody Wants to Rule the World gewann 1986 den Brit Award für die Best British Single. Orzabal wurde 1986 mit dem Ivor Novello Award der British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors als Outstanding Songwriter ausgezeichnet.
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Sophomore sets are notoriously tricky beasts. Not so for Tears For Fears, who took a comparatively leisurely 24 months to follow up 1983’s The Hurting, and were rewarded with an out-the-park smash that took the duo to the top of the US charts.

Such stellar success had initially looked less than assured after two interim singles failed to crack the UK Top 10, but 1984’s Shout turned things around, rewarding the duo with a UK No 4 and a US No 1. That chart-topper was actually the second hit from the album, as the stateside label went straight for the jugular, seizing on Everybody Wants To Rule The World as the set’s lead release. That song, with its easy, mid-Atlantic sheen, is light years away from the band’s synth-heavy origins – and, indeed, much of the rest of this album. Still, make no mistake: this was a band making it big, coating their consistently interesting material in a high-gloss commercial sheen that captured the mid-80s zeitgeist perfectly.

This is the second reissue for Songs From The Big Chair and, this time, it’s truly a deluxe programme, available on five formats, including vinyl. A new 5.1 surround sound mix has created much online buzz, while the six-disc premium package, capturing that and a new stereo remix on DVD-A, sits alongside a DVD featuring promos, a documentary and BBC TV appearances, plus scores of early takes, unreleased material, contemporary remixes and live tracks across four further standard CDs.

SOURCE: https://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/album/songs-big-chair


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