Tears For Fears - The Hurting (Remastered, 180 Gram) (LP)

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Tears for Fears' debut album The Hurting was released on March 7, 1983 and contains Tears for Fears' first three hit singles - "Mad World", "Change", and "Pale Shelter". This re-pressed vinyl LP comes on the back of a massively critically acclaimed successful tour which saw the band play to thousands of fans. Tears for Fears developed on the periphery of the early-'80s electro-pop phenomenon; their Bath base isolating them from the confidence and cool of their Sheffield compatriots -- the Human League, ABC, and Heaven 17 -- and the urban sleaze of Soft Cell. The Hurting is nevertheless an assured debut, with Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith weaving contemporary technology with traditional arrangements in a fashion that would soon come to dominate '80s mainstream pop. The result is an enduring and fascinating combination of pretension ("Ideas as Opiates" is as impenetrable as its title) and na?vet? (the regression of the title track). Angst and catharsis ar