Collection [Extra tracks, Import]

Tears For Fears | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 27, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Universal UK
• ASIN: B000083LPZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #358,591 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pharaohs

2. Shout

3. Mad World

4. Mothers Talk

5. The Working Hour

6. Sea Song

7. I Believe

8. Ideas Opiates

9. Year Of The Knife

10. Break It Down Again

11. Memories Fade

12. Empire Building

13. Brian Wilson Said

14. Sowing The Seeds Of Love

15. Always In The Past

16. Change

17. Advice For The Young At Heart

Editorial Reviews

This collection not only provides a bumper selection of the band's UK Top 40 hits, eight featured here including the Top 5 hits, 'Shout', 'Mad World', 'Sowing The Seeds Of Love', & 'Change', but also works as a fantastic career overview as it also features B-sides & album tracks from across their four hit albums, 'The Hurting', Songs From The Big Chair', 'Seeds Of Love' & 'Elemental'. 17 tracks. Spectrum. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 79 Minutes of Joy, May 4, 2005

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ski "jaribm" (J-town) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Collection (Audio CD)

Taking an equal amount of tracks from the first five albums--between 3 to 4 each--"Collection" offers an interesting career oversight that few Tears for Fears compilations offer. It covers their entire catalog, without avoiding the b-sides, and just as important, without overlooking the hits.

For instance, a lot of TFFs compilation albums shun The Hurting almost completely. Collection, however, includes four tracks from that album: Mad World, Ideas As Opiates, Memories Fade, and Change.

Meanwhile, from Songs From the Big Chair and The Seeds of Love, it includes the bonus tracks Empire Building and Always in the Past, respectively. And for the grand finale, it includes an unedited version of Shout (although the packaging says it's edited) and Sowing the Seeds of Love.

Overall, it's a great way to hear Tears for Fears' entire career. I highly recommend it.