TomDac
former MLO owner/operator
Artist: Tears For Fears
Title: The Seeds of Love
Year of Release: 1989
Record Label: Mercury
Genre: Pop/Rock
This is the 3rd album from Tears For Fears and arguably their best work. It's lush and complicated and absolutely beautiful from start to finish. Sadly, this is the last record TFF made before Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith parted ways (don't fret...there's a Happy Ending).
While in Kansas City prior to recording this album, Roland and Curt went into a nightclub and heard a young singer by the name of Oleta Adams. They loved her voice and asked if she would sing on their next album. She is all over Seeds Of Love and her voice is just phenomenal. Incidentally, Roland went on to produce her first album called "Circle of One".
Anyway, back to The Seeds of Love... Track #1 "Woman In Chains" and Track #4 "Advice For The Young At Heart" are standouts, but overall the entire album is a timeless classic that sounds as fresh as it did when it was first released. I urge all of you to go buy this and give it a listen.
From Wikipedia: Much of the material was recorded in jam-sessions and later edited down. The length of the production left the band with lumbering debt and a record-company eager to cash in on lost earnings. The album retained the band's epic sound while showing increasing influences ranging from jazz and blues to The Beatles, the last of which is extremely evident in the hit single "Sowing The Seeds Of Love" - the first record ever played on Atlantic 252, the UK and Ireland Longwave Radio station. Another single was "Woman In Chains" (Top 20 hit in France, Netherlands, etc.), on which Phil Collins played drums and Oleta Adams — whom Orzabal would later guide to a successful solo career — shared vocals. The album was a worldwide success again, entering the UK album charts at no.1, and making the US top 10 (though charting lower there than its multi-platinum predecessor) and eventually going on to sell millions of copies worldwide.
Title: The Seeds of Love
Year of Release: 1989
Record Label: Mercury
Genre: Pop/Rock
This is the 3rd album from Tears For Fears and arguably their best work. It's lush and complicated and absolutely beautiful from start to finish. Sadly, this is the last record TFF made before Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith parted ways (don't fret...there's a Happy Ending).
While in Kansas City prior to recording this album, Roland and Curt went into a nightclub and heard a young singer by the name of Oleta Adams. They loved her voice and asked if she would sing on their next album. She is all over Seeds Of Love and her voice is just phenomenal. Incidentally, Roland went on to produce her first album called "Circle of One".
Anyway, back to The Seeds of Love... Track #1 "Woman In Chains" and Track #4 "Advice For The Young At Heart" are standouts, but overall the entire album is a timeless classic that sounds as fresh as it did when it was first released. I urge all of you to go buy this and give it a listen.
From Wikipedia: Much of the material was recorded in jam-sessions and later edited down. The length of the production left the band with lumbering debt and a record-company eager to cash in on lost earnings. The album retained the band's epic sound while showing increasing influences ranging from jazz and blues to The Beatles, the last of which is extremely evident in the hit single "Sowing The Seeds Of Love" - the first record ever played on Atlantic 252, the UK and Ireland Longwave Radio station. Another single was "Woman In Chains" (Top 20 hit in France, Netherlands, etc.), on which Phil Collins played drums and Oleta Adams — whom Orzabal would later guide to a successful solo career — shared vocals. The album was a worldwide success again, entering the UK album charts at no.1, and making the US top 10 (though charting lower there than its multi-platinum predecessor) and eventually going on to sell millions of copies worldwide.
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I think I might pick it up now!
