The Hurting

CMJ: Ranked #14in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1983".

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CD Details

Released: June 28, 1999
Originally Released: 1983
Label: Mercury

Entertainment Reviews:

Q - 7/99, pp.130-1

4 stars (out of 5) - "...THE HURTING remains a landmark work....dated by the real saxophone on 'Ideas As Opiates' and 'Memories Fade' as by the crashing programmed rhythms and Fairlight whistling ...it's nonetheless a highly emotional pop record..."

CMJ - 1/5/04, p.12

Ranked #14 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1983."

Tracks:

$1.29 on iTunes1.The Hurting
$1.29 on iTunes2.Mad World
$1.29 on iTunes3.Pale Shelter
$1.29 on iTunes4.Ideas as Opiates
$1.29 on iTunes5.Memories Fade
$1.29 on iTunes6.Suffer the Children
$1.29 on iTunes7.Watch Me Bleed
$1.29 on iTunes8.Change
$1.29 on iTunes9.The Prisoner
$1.29 on iTunes10.Start of the Breakdown
$1.29 on iTunes11.Pale Shelter - (long version)
$1.29 on iTunes12.Way You Are, The - (extended version)
$1.29 on iTunes13.Mad World - (World Remix, World remix)
$1.29 on iTunes14.Change - (extended version)

Product Description:

Tears For Fears: Roland Orzabel (vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming); Curt Smith (vocals, keyboards, bass); Ian Stanley (keyboards, programming); Manny Elias (drums, programming).

Additional personnel: Caroline Orzabal (vocals); Phil Palmer (guitar); Mel Collins (saxophone); Chris Hughes (programming); Ross Cullum.

Includes liner notes by Ian Cranna.

Digitally remastered by Jon Astley and Chris Hughes (Close To The Edge).

Composer: Roland Orzabal.

Personnel: Roland Orzabal (vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming); Curt Smith (vocals, keyboards); Caroline Orzabal (vocals); Phil Palmer (guitar); Mel Collins (saxophone); Ian Stanley (keyboards, programming, keyboard programming); Chris Hughes (drums, percussion, programming); Manny Elias (drums, programming); Ross Cullum (percussion).

Audio Remasterers: Chris Hughes ; Jon Astley.

Liner Note Author: Ian Cranna.

Editor: Ross Cullum.

Unknown Contributor Roles: Dynamic Toggle; Phil Palmer.

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 are persistent forces, evident in Orzabal's howl, the crashes of "Memories Fade," and the claustrophobia of "The Prisoner" and "Start of the Breakdown." But The Hurting also bursts with inspired pop melodies, not least with the schoolgirl la-las of "Suffer Little Children" and the busy percussive loops of "Change." [The 1998 remastered edition includes four bonus tracks.]