TEARS FOR FEARS – The Seeds Of Love [Super Deluxe 4xCD Box Set Remastered] (2020)

I don’t know you, but TEARS FOR FEARS 1989 album ”The Seeds Of Love” is a very good one in my book, and now is getting a Super Deluxe 4xCD Box Set Remastered reissue that really worth to check out. This is a true ‘Super Deluxe’, with a lot a new things to discover.
To transform from a bedsit synth-pop outfit with a thing for prim diction to a global phenomenon projecting miserabilist pensées at arena scale must have ground TEARS FOR FEARS into a fine powder. Relaxing in a Kansas City hotel bar while promoting 1985’s quintuple-platinum Songs from the Big Chair, singer-guitarist-songwriter Roland Orzabal and singer-bassist Curt Smith were entranced by Oleta Adams, the Seattle-born R&B singer at the piano. Something went off in Orzabal’s mind.
A couple years later, deep into recording their third album, he contacted Adams with a request: would she join their sessions?
And with her, TEARS FOR FEARS recorded the best song from their career; ‘Woman In Chains’.

What became ”The Seeds of Love” resulted from hundreds of hours of peripatetic experimentation, and, when the sessions stretched almost four years, probably just seemed pathetic to their dismayed label. By this time even Phil Collins and fretless bass wonder Pino Palladino had been enlisted alongside Adams.
”The Seeds of Love” was released 1989, and first single “Sowing the Seeds of Love” peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October for the sake of Fontana/Mercury’s promo department.

This UMe’s fulsome box set, packed with single / radio versions, jam sessions, alternate mixes, all the album B-sides, and a remaster of the original, brings something meaty to discover on this album and its extensive recording sessions.
Highly Recommended

CD1
1. Woman In Chains (feat. Oleta Adams) (6:31)
2. Bad Man’s Song (8:33)
3. Sowing The Seeds Of Love (6:19)
4. Advice For The Young At Heart (4:51)
5. Standing On The Corner Of The Third World (5:34)
6. Swords And Knives (6:13)
7. Year Of The Knife (7:08)
8. Famous Last Words (4:28)

CD2
1. Sowing The Seeds Of Love (7″ Version) (5:45)
2. Tears Roll Down (3:17)
3. Woman In Chains (Single Version) (feat. Oleta Adams) (5:30)
4. Always In The Past (4:39)
5. My Life In The Suicide Ranks (4:34)
6. Woman In Chains (Instrumental Version 2) (6:30)
7. Advice For The Young At Heart (7″ Version) (4:49)
8. Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams (Instrumental) (4:20)
9. Music For Tables (3:33)
10. Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams (Mix One) (6:23)
11. Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams (Mix Two) (5:59)
12. Sowing The Seeds Of Love (US Radio Edit) (4:06)
13. Woman In Chains (US Radio Edit) (feat. Oleta Adams) (4:44)
14. Advice For The Young At Heart (Italian Radio Edit) (3:44)
15. Year Of The Knife (Canadian Single Version) (5:38)
16. Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams (4:19)

CD3
1. Year Of The Knife (Overture) (1:39)
2. Year Of The Knife (Early Mix / Instrumental Version) (8:39)
3. Sowing The Seeds Of Love (Alternate Mix) (7:19)
4. Tears Roll Down (Alternate Mix) (4:02)
5. Year Of The Knife (Steve Chase 7″ Remix) (4:29)
6. Bad Man’s Song (Early Mix) (7:58)
7. Advice For The Young At Heart (Backing Track) (4:50)
8. Year Of The Knife (Instrumental Version) (6:11)
9. Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams (Mix One / 7″ Edit) (3:50)
10. Sowing The Seeds Of Love (Early Mix / Instrumental) (5:56)
11. Woman In Chains (US Radio Edit 2) (feat. Oleta Adams) (4:14)
12. Year Of The Knife (Canadian Single Version / Instrumental) (5:35)
13. Famous Last Words (French Radio Edit) (3:05)
14. Woman In Chains (Reprise) (feat. Oleta Adams) (6:41)

CD4
1. Rhythm Of Life (Demo) (5:12)
2. Advice For The Young At Heart (Demo) (4:55)
3. Swords And Knives (Demo) (3:52)
4. Famous Last Words (Demo) (4:13)
5. Sowing The Seeds Of Love (Instrumental / Demo) (6:04)
6. Bad Man’s Song (Langer / Winstanley Version) (7:28)
7. Woman In Chains (Townhouse Sessions) (7:08)
8. Broken (Townhouse Live Jam Sessions) (1:36)
9. Rhythm Of Life (Townhouse Live Jam Sessions) (3:11)
10. Bad Man’s Song (Townhouse Live Jam Sessions) (8:19)
11. Bad Man’s Song (Medley / Reprise) (2:08)
12. Standing On The Corner Of The 3rd World (Townhouse Sessions) (9:10)

Roland Orzabal – vocals guitars, keyboards, Fairlight
Curt Smith – bass, vocals
Ian Stanley – keyboards, Hammond
with:
Phil Collins – drums
Manu Katché – drums
Chris Hughes – drums
Simon Phillips – drums
Pino Palladino – bass
Neil Taylor – guitar
Robbie McIntosh – guitar
Oleta Adams – vocals, keyboards, piano

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