Tears For Fears - 1999 - The Hurting [Remastered and Expanded] [

The Hurting is the debut album by British pop band Tears for Fears. It was released on March 25, 1983 and was the group's first #1 on the UK Albums Chart. The album, produced by Chris Hughes and Ross Cullum, showcased synthesizer-based songs with lyrics reflecting Roland Orzabal's bitter childhood and upbringing. The Hurting can be considered Tears for Fears' only true concept album, as references to emotional distress and primal therapy are found in nearly every song. The album itself was a big success and had a lengthy chart run (65 weeks) in the UK, where it reached no.1 - also reaching the Top 20 in several countries and yielded the international hit singles "Mad World" (top 5 hit in South Africa), "Change" (top 30 hit in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy and South Africa), and a re-recorded version of "Pale Shelter" (all of which were top 5 in the UK).



The album was remastered and reissued in 1999. This new release included four remixes as bonus tracks and an extensive booklet which described the recording process of the album.



01 - The Hurting

02 - Mad World

03 - Pale Shelter

04 - Ideas As Opiates

05 - Memories Fade

06 - Suffer The Children

07 - Watch Me Bleed

08 - Change

09 - The Prisoner

10 - Start Of The Breakdown

11 - Pale Shelter [Long Version]

12 - The Way You Are [Extended]

13 - Mad World [World Remix]

14 - Change [Extended Version]



All tracks are DRM-free and encoded losslessly in FLAC format (16 bit, stereo, 44.1 kHz). For more information about FLAC visit http://flac.sourceforge.net/. Album summary courtesy of Wikipedia and is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.