Uncovering the Next Generation's Hall of Fame
Tears for FearsNot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame | |||||||||||||||||
Eligible since: 2007First Recording: 1981Previously Considered? No what's this? |
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R.S. Top 500 Songs (?) | Rank | Version | |
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (1985) | 319 | 2021 |
Essential Albums (?) | Wikipedia | YouTube | |
The Hurting (1983) | ☆ | ☊ | |
Songs From The Big Chair (1985) | ☆ | ☊ | |
The Seeds Of Love (1989) | ☆ | ☊ |
Essential Songs (?) | Wikipedia | YouTube | |
Mad World (1983) | ☆ | ☊ | |
Shout (1984) | ☆ | ☊ | |
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (1985) | ☆ | ☊ | |
Head Over Heels (1985) | ☆ | ☊ | |
Sowing The Seeds Of Love (1989) | ☆ | ☊ | |
Break It Down Again (1993) | ☆ | ☊ |
Tears for Fears @ Wikipedia
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27 comments so far (post your own)Solid second wave New Wave duo that produced one of the best album of the 1980s (Songs from the Big Chair), but their overall career doesn't merit a ticket to the HOF. Still, fans like myself will keep enjoying the great work that Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith made Posted by Zach on Thursday, 04/25/2013 @ 01:13am |
Tears For Fears made some great music. Songs From The Big Chair was a Classic.My FAV Everybody Wants To Rule The World,Shout,Head Over Heels. Just amazing songs. Posted by KING on Wednesday, 02/26/2014 @ 16:11pm |
Tears For Fears made some great music. Songs From The Big Chair was a Classic.My FAV Everybody Wants To Rule The World,Shout,Head Over Heels. Just amazing songs. Posted by KING on Wednesday, 02/26/2014 @ 17:09pm |
TFF is an interesting case. Not given the credit they deserve. Some of the best music of the 80's in some respects. 'Songs From The Big Chair' is just brilliant from start to finish, ambitious and inventive. That being said, they never matched it and did not fulfill their promise. So I agree, they fall short of HOF. They had the potential though. Posted by dezmond on Wednesday, 02/26/2014 @ 17:20pm |
Fav Tears For Fears song Everybody Wants To Rule The World. They would definitely considered good or great in the 80's but the RRHOF would be a tougher sell. Probably needed 2 more powerhouse albums to make the HOF. Songs like Pale Shelter and Sowing The Seeds Of Love are also worth checking out. Loved the ending solo Everybody Wants To Rule The World. KING Posted by KING on Monday, 05/18/2015 @ 16:46pm |
Saw TFF (opening for Hall & Oates) last week, and it was definitely a thrill for me. The two men looked and sounded great. Oddly, the biggest cheers they got were when they covered Radiohead's "Creep". Another odd thing was the show opened (as the band entered the stage) with Lorde's cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" before they did their own. Great show, as well as Hall & Oates' set. Posted by Jason Voigt on Monday, 05/15/2017 @ 15:41pm |
I can't even begin to understand anyone here who doesn't think these guys should be in the Hall Of Fame. Even if you're not be a fan of their music their influence and contributions to music are undeniable. The Hurting was one of the greatest debut albums of that era. Posted by Eddie avakian on Friday, 12/6/2019 @ 21:55pm |
Never cared for them, personally. Slick, bloated, interminable songs about "the pain". They're basically Toto with an added helping of self-pity. Posted by Gustuf on Saturday, 02/29/2020 @ 11:27am |
Quite liked them in the early 80s when they were basically an overproduced OMD ("duo" presentation, alternating lead vocals, gloomy synth-based sound, crazy dancing). From there they just made increasingly overblown attempts to replicate 'Sgt. Pepper'. An okay but endlessly derivative band, about whom nothing screams "Hall of Fame". Posted by Leslie Dresden on Thursday, 05/7/2020 @ 14:13pm |
When they hit they soared, bands are in RRHOF for having done less. Time for TFF and Maiden to get in Posted by Jim on Saturday, 06/27/2020 @ 23:39pm |
Tears For Fears Posted by Roy on Thursday, 09/10/2020 @ 08:06am |
Okay, the derivative accusation is just a false narrative and I can't take being silent about it any longer after having heard this about a truly great ROCK band. No one should be able to say it, just to say it, and then try to will it into existence. It simply is not true. Derivative by definition means I should clearly know who the sound is emulating when I hear them. Like Greta Van Fleet being derivative of Led Zeppelin (who, by the way, could be labeled as derivative as well due to their lifting of so many other sounds that were not their own) is a good example. I'd go as far as to say Stone Temple Pilots is a derivative sound of Alice in Chains as so far as when one begins it's hard to tell where the other one ends. However, I believe they both have a place in the Hall of Fame. Posted by Rob on Friday, 09/18/2020 @ 00:04am |
Looks like the previous poster can't handle people having viewpoints that differ from his. Pushing your opinion in the style of music review hyperbole doesn't negate anyone else's. Posted by Jim on Tuesday, 10/27/2020 @ 23:38pm |
@Rob - To suggest that "Mad World" had no musical precedent is patently absurd. Roland Orzabal openly admits that his musical intentions were rock-oriented, until he became aware of acts like OMD, Japan and Human League. Graduate were a *guitar* band, then Orzabal swiftly reinvented himself as a sullen electro artist, jumping on the synthpop bandwagon. Brooding, introspective songs played on synths and drum machines, were around two years before TFF, I'm afraid. Posted by Leslie Dresden on Saturday, 11/21/2020 @ 06:04am |
Meh. I own(ed) everything they've done, and all I get from it is a few decent early-mid 80s radio hits, and a bunch of indulgent meandering dressed up as cleverness. The musicianship was actually pretty standard, and the ingenuity extremely low. On top of that, their proven-nonsense Janovian psychoanalysis is deeply embarrassing. Posted by Jon on Thursday, 03/25/2021 @ 07:56am |
Tff does deserve to be in the rock and roll hall of fame..there a great band from the 80s and still are..there deserve to have this honor Posted by Christine Miller on Sunday, 03/28/2021 @ 19:06pm |
Few bands annoy me as much as Tears for Fears, and that's probably because of their super-annoying, obsessive fanbase. What have TFF ever really done? They made two good records a looooong time ago. They rode musical waves rather than start them. They never influenced anyone of note. Posted by Levren on Saturday, 12/4/2021 @ 18:16pm |
@Levren Posted by Joe on Saturday, 01/15/2022 @ 21:47pm |
Both TFF and Depeche mode are brilliant ! Posted by Gafferboy38 on Monday, 03/7/2022 @ 16:49pm |
Tears For Fears is played on Rock radio. Depeche Mode is not. Posted by Harlo on Friday, 03/18/2022 @ 18:37pm |
Harlo Posted by mat r on Saturday, 03/19/2022 @ 00:40am |
Tears For Fears Posted by Roy on Friday, 05/13/2022 @ 05:56am |
Tears For Fears was a band, not a duo. The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame better remember that! Posted by Roy on Sunday, 05/15/2022 @ 05:07am |
Hadn't really considered them to be Rock Hall candidates because of a relatively short discography. However, I've changed my mind with the release of the Tipping Point, an album of distinct merit from artists who still have what it takes 40 years later Posted by Eric Tompkins on Tuesday, 05/24/2022 @ 18:37pm |
To all you haters do your homework before you talk rubbish tff are still producing no one albums the tipping point both sides of the Atlantic nothing more to be said if I had to go through all there albums ever released all charted more than half of them both sides of the Atlantic no 1 sell out world tours touring since 2004 they have sold at least 35m albums when they play at festivals no matter who is playing tears for fears are always the best live act bar none the have had more hit singles than most bands around the world and to this day a still relevant people may not like them but their music speaks for its self . Posted by Dangerous Danny on Monday, 10/17/2022 @ 09:07am |
EVERYBODY WANTS......Tears For Fears to be inducted into the rock & roll hall of fame. Posted by Jason Marley on Tuesday, 11/22/2022 @ 16:03pm |
Roland is a sad old drunkard who needs a haircut. The guy hasn't written a decent tune in 35 years. I do like their early stuff but... Hall of Fame worthy? Eh!? Posted by Riley on Sunday, 03/26/2023 @ 18:55pm |
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