Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: New Tears For Fears Message-ID: <1220.8909111548@subnode.lfcs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 11 Sep 89 15:48:15 GMT Sender: root@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: Edinburgh University Computer Science Lines: 50 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: Jamie Andrews >Really-From: Jonathan Lisle Cohen > >I didn't catch the name of the new album, nor any rumors re: why it took so >long to come out with it (about 4 years by my count). Anyone else heard? Don't know the name of the album either, but the first single is apparently called "Badman's Song" or something like that (not to be confused, one hopes, with any of the Batman hype...) There was a story in Q magazine last month about it, and apparently it took so long because they had to go through enough emotional trauma to generate material for the album. :-) :-) But seriously, it was apparently a very difficult time for them both, and they spent long periods not seeing each other or their standard backing musicians. They also changed producers several times and had to fight mightily against the A&R men who wanted them to "just make another _Songs from the Big Chair_". Finally they took control of the album and produced it themselves, changing some of the arrangements (including that for "Badman's Song") completely. ("they" here meaning Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal) I haven't even heard the single yet (or "The Sensual World" for that matter), since I rarely listen to the radio because I like maybe 3% of the music I ever hear on it... all I ever listen to regularly is a program called "Beat Patrol" on Radio Scotland which usually features *really* non-poppy music like fIREHOSE and so on. BTW, I don't know if I ever mentioned it on L-Hs, but I saw fIREHOSE (edfROMOHIO and all) last year in Edinburgh on the recommendation of L-Hs. Great gig, great band. Totally music- loving and unaffected (well, except for the drummer, but his affectations were pretty likeable). They were back here just last week I think, but I didn't get to see them again. Thanks for the tip anyway, whoever it was. peace eager for the new albums from TFF and from she who is and will ever be GOD --Jamie. jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk "Walls so thin I can almost hear them breathing"