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Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair (1985)

Posted By: v3122

Date: 8 Apr 2017 16:03:58

Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair (1985)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
1998 | Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, UDCD 730 | ~ 372 or 133 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 25 Mb
New Wave, Pop Rock

If The Hurting was mental anguish, Songs from the Big Chair marks the progression towards emotional healing, a particularly bold sort of catharsis culled from Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith's shared attraction to primal scream therapy. The album also heralded a dramatic maturation in the band's music, away from the synth-pop brand with which it was (unjustly) seared following the debut, and towards a complex, enveloping pop sophistication. The songwriting of Orzabal, Smith, and keyboardist Ian Stanley took a huge leap forward, drawing on reserves of palpable emotion and lovely, protracted melodies that draw just as much on soul and R&B music as they do on immediate pop hooks. The album could almost be called pseudo-conceptual, as each song holds its place and each is integral to the overall tapestry, a single-minded resolve that is easy to overlook when an album is as commercially successful as Songs from the Big Chair. And commercially successful it was, containing no less than three huge commercial radio hits, including the dramatic and insistent march, "Shout" and the shimmering, cascading "Head Over Heels," which, tellingly, is actually part of a song suite on the album. Orzabal and Smith's penchant for theorizing with steely-eyed austerity was mistaken for harsh bombasticism in some quarters, but separated from its era, the album only seems earnestly passionate and immediate, and each song has the same driven intent and the same glistening remoteness. It is not only a commercial triumph, it is an artistic tour de force. And in the loping, percolating "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," Tears for Fears perfectly captured the zeitgeist of the mid-'80s while impossibly managing to also create a dreamy, timeless pop classic. Songs from the Big Chair is one of the finest statements of the decade.

by Stanton Swihart, allmusic

Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair (1985):

Tracklist:

01. Shout [06:35]
02. The Working Hour [06:32]
03. Everybody Wants To Rule The World [04:12]
04. Mothers Talk [05:07]
05. I Believe [04:56]
06. Broken [02:38]
07. Head Over Heels \ Broken (live) [05:23]
08. Listen [06:51]
09. Shout (extended mix) [08:14]
10. Everybody Wants To Rule The World (extended mix) [05:41]

EAC Log

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 29. February 2012, 0:33

Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair

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Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo

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Range status and errors

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Test CRC E4D59E20
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DR Log

foobar2000 1.2.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2017-04-08 18:52:04

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Analyzed: Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 0.00 dB -11.37 dB 6:35 01-Shout
DR11 -0.30 dB -13.82 dB 6:34 02-The Working Hour
DR11 0.00 dB -13.65 dB 4:13 03-Everybody Wants To Rule The World
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DR13 -0.32 dB -17.39 dB 4:57 05-I Believe
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DR12 0.00 dB -15.28 dB 6:55 08-Listen
DR11 -0.02 dB -13.49 dB 8:18 09-Shout (extended mix)
DR12 -0.20 dB -13.99 dB 5:42 10-Everybody Wants To Rule The World (extended mix)
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR11

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Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 896 kbps
Codec: FLAC

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