Rockit9 wrote:
A literate alliterator.

1989 in 5 minutes 58 seconds here

 Laptopdog wrote:

And IMHO it continues to satisfy. It is wearing quite well. 

 Rockit9 wrote:

P to the 3rd Power, eh?  

But, but... I AM the walrus.

Very Beatle-like, I love it!

”Time to eat all your words
Swallow your pride
Open your eyes”

— Tears for Fears, 
Sowing The Seeds Of Love

 timmus wrote:

Don't do that.

For more like this, do check out Everybody Loves a Happy Ending. Very underrated, for those of us who are soppy for this kind of retro-psychedelia nonsense. ^.^

 phlattop wrote:

Agreed. I was tired of Bad Company back when they were still putting out new albums. Every time I tune in to a Classic station on Sirius, guess which band always show up.

Love the piccolo trumpet on this.

Thank You for the lyrics.  After many years, I am now sure of what they are. I always got them wrong!   GREAT TUNE!  

We’re fools to the rules of a Government plan.
So much truth in that statement.

i just love rolands voice.

Man, they sure packed a lot into this song.  

 phlattop wrote:

Commercial radio?  I haven't listened to commercial radio in.....over a decade now.  RP is it, baby.  It works for me.  If it ain't broke don't go fixin' it, either.  😉

'Time to eat all your words, swallow your pride, open your eyes...'

Sage advice for politicians.

6.9 and 6.8 for Tears for Fears and Afro Cubism? Lower than the other 2--really folks?

Sowing The Seeds Of LoveTears for FearsThe Seeds of Love (1989) 6.9(1583) 4:48p26 sep When I Grow UpFirst Aid KitGhost Town EP (2010)7.4(3510) 4:43p26 sep Al vaivén de mi carretaAfroCubismAfroCubism (2010)6.8(1032) 4:40p26 sep I’ll Be AroundThe SpinnersThe Very Best of The Spinners (1972)7.9(840)

 gfp wrote:
 
On commercial radio so much?  Are you kidding? I wish commercial radio would drop 80% of its existing playlist in favor of lost gems like this. Or at least play deeper cuts from the Stones, Beatles, Hendrix, U2 etc.  The reliance on the same 2-3 dozen classics from the 60s, 70s and 80s instead of giving younger bands some airplay is a BIG reason why rock is dead in the larger culture.

 Rockit9 wrote:
 

I have quite a few 9's and 10's from my youth. And since I play my favorites all of the time, I get think about where I might have been then. 

"D.J.'s the man we love the most"

Well said for this station. 

Pure Pop Pleasure.

These server probs causing long silences have been an interesting adventure... the silence remains on the mainstream but for me so far PSD will start a song.  And I've loved all of these nice surprises... makes me wonder what I'm not missing by rarely ever feeling the need to PSD but hidden in that code there are fantastic songs... I just worry Bill is fighting something tricky cuz this mainstream deadstream is the LAST thing a fine programmer such as he wants to be sorting... but yet again, just got an awesome KT Tunstall song I'd never heard.  Nice.

Thanks Bill, for the great birthday set - Ludovico, Talk Talk, Tears for Fears. I sincerely appreciate it!!

You must be new to RP, Pete.

pellepelikan wrote: 

Fun

Ahhhh les anglais ! Ils savent pas cuisiner mais qu'est-ce qu'ils se rattrapent sur la musique 

If you're going to bother, you don't do it halfway. 

This is so much fun. I still remember the first time I heard it on the FM. I started laughing so hard at its audacity and execution. 

 fitmartin wrote: 
Umm, 27 years later.

 fitmartin wrote: 
That's why it's still being played, umm, how many years later?

 ziakut wrote: 
Bump.

Oont listen to commercial radio. It's awesome. So I may have heard this many moons ago

The genius of a young Roland Orzibal.

I liked this a lot more when it came out.  It hasn't withstood the test of time, for me.  Or, maybe I have heard it too much as I have it in my I-tunes.

 akiml wrote: 
hmmm. Tears and XTC were heavily influenced by the Beatles. This album and XTC's "Oranges and Lemons" are prime examples of this.

I love Beatles...

Great song!

How this annoying, cornball overly-done song ever got so popular is an embarrassment of the times. Even I liked it for a while - not for the sappy pseudo-political anti-establishment love-and-peace lyrics, but for its musical and overdone vocal arrangement  (ouch, I just hurt myself admitting that). This song is on commercial radio so much, we really don't need to hear it on RP, folks, do we, huh?

BORING SONG
overprocessed pop 

def a godsong

Great song!
TfF I know for a long time but learned to appreciate only rather recently...
Why this low average rating (6.6)? 

A timeless masterpiece of popmusic.
This recording shows what was possible in the 80's when there was a proper production budget.
Even on a mediocre HIFI System this sounds great!

Love this album, except I usually skip this song. Why this one Bill?? 

What fun! Yes - XTC crossed with Sgt Pepper

I am a sunflower 
loved this one when I was 10, love it still at 36 

 ziggytrix wrote: 
I get the XTC vibe, and I'm a big XTC fan as well.

Spun this CD a bunch back in the day! Guess I need to break it out for the kids now;)

Spectacular pop. 

Well at least it's not "shout"....

Sgt. PepperedWhitenPlastiHipppySoul.  Baby.............

 zerosomething wrote: 
Beatles?? You really want to hear similarity, side by side this one with the Beach Boys "Feel Flows"

Zoing the seeds! 

 govna wrote: 
I'll never hear this song the same. Thanks for that. I'll be looking forward to a good giggle.
Reminds me of how we used to sing "Your own, personal, Cheez Wiz"

The album from which this song hails is excellent from any angle. Love it!

 zerosomething wrote: 
Challenge accepted!

Now I'd like to hear "Life in a Northern Town." How about it, Bill? It's been more than a year since you took it for a spin.

Well hindsight is 20-20 and in retrospect I'm sure this song has gotten diminished in the eyes of the music populace over the years, but I still think its a good listen every once in a while.  RP for me is really about hearing songs that you forgot about, songs that you discover and songs you wanted to forget. 

This song sucks like the vacuum of space.

Zoing, the seeds of love.

Nice message - horrible delivery....and I LIKE TFF!

Your 9th grade music taste was telling you that this is a great song.  Really poppy is a GOOD thing!

Reeeeeeeally poppy stuff, but I'll never forget how much I dug this song when it came out.  9th grade.  What the hell did I know.

Nice one, Bill...

 zerosomething wrote: 

 A bit BUSY, isn't it?

 jools wrote: 

LOL - maybe now you know what it feels like to be an American living and travelling abroad learning about all those vastly superior cultures out there.

AS PERFECT AS (A POP-SONG) CAN BE!
10 - no discussion (and it's rather far from I usually play at home).

Lush production.

 ziggytrix wrote: 
Thank you. You nailed it.

 jools wrote: 
Probably an attempt to use the word "gay" to refer neither to homosexuals nor happy folk.  I've seen it spelled "ghey" in that context.  And from that context, I suspect the intent is to use it as a synonym for "lame" (as in "uncool" not as in "parapalegic").

Reminds me of the South Park episode "The F Word" where the kids have no concept of "fag" being a derogatory term for a homosexual and are confused by everyone's objection of them using the term to describe "an inconsiderate douchebag".

Fag (făg) n.

1. An extremely annoying, inconsiderate person most commonly associated with Harley riders.

2. A person who owns or frequently rides a Harley.

 

 jools wrote: 

I have to agree with Valerie, this song has a very British feel to it.  That is not a bad thing to me, but I guess Valerie feels differently. 

 htowncoog wrote: 
I suspect s/he meant "gay".  Which is far too often used to mean bad - which is not good at all.

 I think this song has held up pretty well. 

 valerie wrote: 
And your point is...?  What if I said something was "too Chilean" ? Would that be acceptable?

I love TFF and although not my fave track, still worthy of RP 

PURE LOVE!!!

too weak, too british

ELO??  This is obviously a HUGE Beatles influence.

 a_genuine_find wrote: 

 scraig wrote: 
You obviously don't write music? And what does "gey" mean...please elaborate.
8 for me...

 scraig wrote: 

(gey?) Did you mean goy, perhaps? It's puzzling...

 Stingray wrote: 
I was thinking pure cheese. This is gey beyond belief.

PURE GENIUS

I still enjoy listening to them!  Fond memories for me....

i BELIEVE in LOVE POWER too!

 ziakut wrote: 

Tis the one.

 ziakut wrote: 
Yup, same album. Oleta Adams kicks butt on that song. 

Never had an album, but like this and other stuff I've heard on radio...Shout brings back the memories, this is better, however!

"......DJ is the man we love the most..." especially when we have one as great as Bill!  

One of my guilty pleasure albums. Also a great variety of tracks. I've used it for years for evaluating sound systems.

 a_genuine_find wrote: 

I get more of an XTC vibe - I know that's way off, but still, there it is.

God, I love the lead singer's voice.    It really gets me ... right ... there!

Good tune, but I like Woman in Chains by this band so much more! Not sure if it's on the same album or not. Think so.

I think the brothers of Oasis fight because they still can't match this level of sweetness.

has  a ELO feel to me

"An end to need and the politics of greed"

Play more Tears for Fears.....especially from "Raoul and The Kings Of Spain"

  Yes surreee.

 rdo wrote: 
with you, man - 

there's Simple Minds on RP we just haven't heard any in recent memory - request this one

 audiolizard wrote: 

I completely, completely, completely, completely agree.

/Completely

Love this song. 9.

Was George Martin behind the board here? ;-) Yes it's derivative but with great lush production like this who cares?

Glad to hear 80s pop here.  How about some Simple Minds now? they are at least as good as this.

who could dislike a band that uses Hasidic Jews in its videos?  rock on tears!

 velvetglove wrote: 

 nigelr wrote: 

One of the (considerably) better tracks from the 80's.

panlad wrote:
Aye Aye! Aye.

 YES,  I love it too Pharlap wrote: 

Someone should point Joe Cocker in the direction of this song. It's just not bombastic enough as it is.

derivative as heck, and talent challenged, but likeable, with a good message.

redeyespy wrote: For all you believers: It could be argued that the original album, Seeds of Love, is overproduced. It took them six years to finish it. Much of that time was spent with infighting between Curt and Roland I'm sure. Nonetheless as a complete work it rises way above the saccharine pop and rock that dominated the late 80's. The same could be said about the previous Songs from the Big Chair. They are musically unique for their time. This doesn't mean everyone should like it of course. But TFF is an interesting phenomenon in the popular music world. I love this record. I do think the digital recording can be a bit flat but it is an otherwise fantastic achievement in production. It was clearly painstakingly recorded with great attention to detail. In a rare occasion for a rock/pop record the songs and musicianship really live up to the ambition of the production. Big name studio musicians such as Robbie McIntosh, Simon Phillips, and Manu Katche put in fitting contributions. Each song is unique and wonderfully realized as its own piece. Especially noted by TFF fans is the haunting final track, Famous Last Words. All of that said I always felt Seeds of Love was not recognized all that much for its greatness. Maybe it is just too unique in its ambitions. But that's just my opinion...