is this album the pinnacle of New Wave and 80's music?
Is this album the pinnacle of New Wave and 80's music?
Xavier Smith
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Henry Morales
Yeah
Kayden Mitchell
what is the best song and why is it Listen?
James Ramirez
strange way to type The Working Hour
Adrian Richardson
Is that like an alt cover for Hunting High And Low? Looks odd.
Mason Flores
Trevor Horn and his protege band "Frankie Goes to Hollywood" would like to talk to you...
Connor Ross
Listen is fucking God tier
Ryder Carter
...
Aaron Miller
Welcome to the Pleasuredome has some of the best production of the 80's for sure, but Tears is still a better band
Charles Adams
Yes,the only semi-weak track on it is Mother's Talk
Easton Myers
John Cooper
Funny, thats my least favourite track
The Working Hour is my fav
Ethan Jenkins
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Songs From The Big Chair [Mercury, 1985]
Never one to pay much heed to the plaints of English lads with synthesizers, I assumed I could safely dismiss this one until my ears detected substance beneath the surface--uncommon command of keyboards, synths ragged enough to add texture instead of merely effects, even a lyric that goes "We are paid by those who learn from our mistakes"--not bad. Yet in the end, the surface is still annoying, portending a depth and drama that progressive rock has been promising and failing to deliver since the beginning. B-
Joseph Lewis
Head over heels is quite easily the best song
Ayden Foster
Is that Gene Ween?
It even sounds like him.
Elijah Scott
The Pleasure Principal by Gary Numan was the best desu
Ian Collins
SHOUT
SHOUT
LET IT ALL OUT
Ethan Evans
Yes. It has the greatest combination of lyricism, production, and execution. It perfectly captures many different faucets of the 80's very eloquently, it has the rawness of New Wave, and to this day barely sounds dated if you forget that it's from the 80s. There's not a lot of groups out there can execute capturing a sound as good as they managed to and still manage to keep so much life and emotion in it years later.
Kevin Collins
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>some iron
Jaxon Jones
The Hurting is better
Kayden Cook
>and to this day barely sounds dated if you forget that it's from the 80s
A lot of people hate 80s pop production, but it didn't sound bad at all if the artist knew what they were doing.
Jack Thomas
That came out in 1980. Decades are from 1-10 not 0-9.
Jose Rogers
80s aesthetics weren't fully established until 1982 and 80-81 were a transition between the 70s and 80s.
Joshua Moore
>Decades are from 1-10 not 0-9.
Why?
Michael Gomez
There was no year zero.
Kevin Russell
shut the fuck up faggot
Nathan Stewart
weird, that doesn't say Mother's Talk
James Diaz
Le GOAT
Austin Allen
Why is Christgau such an amazing faggot?
Gabriel Cox
Listen has always been my favorite Tears for Fears track. Songs from the Big Chair as a whole is timeless for me, compared to other 80's albums like Heartbeat City, for example.
Dylan Phillips
THESE ARE THE THINGS I CAN LIVE WITHOUT
Isaac King
>being this mad about decades
Carson Moore
That would be correct if instead of mentioning "the 80's", OP would say "the 8th decade of 1900's"
Isaac Jenkins
right? Its one of joy divisions best songs