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The Hurting

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Blu-ray audio, Blu-ray, 21 Jan. 2014
Format Blu-ray
Contributor Tears For Fears
Language English
Runtime 1 hour
Colour Colour

Track Listings

1 The Hurting
2 Mad World
3 Pale Shelter
4 Ideas As Opiates
5 Memories Fade
6 Suffer the Children
7 Watch Me Bleed
8 Change
9 The Prisoner
10 Start of the Breakdown

Product description

High Fidelity Pure Audio edition of the Tears for Fears album The Hurting. High Fidelity Pure Audio is a range of physical HD audio products from Universal Music Group which uses Blu-ray technology to deliver the ultimate listening experience to the user. High Fidelity Pure Audio discs are playable through all Blu-ray devices.

Product details

  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.2 x 13.49 x 1.3 cm; 96.1 g
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ UMC
  • Manufacturer reference ‏ : ‎ 5347943
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2014
  • Label ‏ : ‎ UMC
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GXQEL8M
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2024
    Got TFF compilation. Was directed towards this album by a friend. Unique. Quite unlike anything else they've done. Great listening. Alarming!
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 July 2024
    I have Tears For Fears in my collection but somehow had missed this album, glad to finally have it in my collection. Great album.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 April 2024
    One of the greatest bands of the 80’s. It’s up there with Song’s from the big chair. They don’t make them like this anymore
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 December 2011
    I was there! T4F's debut album appealed to the likes of me, an angst-ridden seventeen-year-old who'd been asked to leave the parental home.

    This is a review of the remastered CD with four extra tracks, expanding the original LP from its forty-one minutes to sixty-six. It also contains some interesting sleevenotes by Ian Cranna, as he concisely interviews the guys track by track.

    The original ten tracks are full of new-fangled (to me) sequencers and jangling guitars; the result is a dark psychology and a clinical instrumentation with few complex harmonies. It has the feel sometimes of the wards of a mental institution. What saves it all are the wonderful melodies of most songs. One wonders what might have been if someone like Trevor Horne had produced it.

    Full marks for the intelligent lyrics. Of course, `Mad World' is the best track, and `Watch Me Bleed' would merit five stars too if it had more harmony. The only duff track is the last - `Start of the Breakdown' - which simply goes nowhere with its incessant repetitiveness.

    The four extra tracks include a version of `Pale Shelter' that does have extra harmonies; an extended and therefore annoying version of `The Way You Are'; a remix of `Mad World' and an extended version of `Change'.

    Having undergone in this set of songs their own scream therapy, the duo went on to bigger and better things. But this was and remains for me a fantastic debut album.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 February 2024
    I heard a song from this album on Greatest Hits Radio and decided I needed the album. Played it twice through then again in the car and now it's part of my collection.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2014
    Tears for Fears are, without question, on of the best British bands... ever! Music trends come and go but having just purchased the blue ray version of the album, I have come to realise that time cannot erase genius. If I listen to other 80's music it sounds very dated and of its time but not The Hurting. In fact, Tears for Fears wrote, sang and produced some of the most poignant and thought evoking music of the 20th century. The appropriately named, The Hurting, demonstrates the pain and suffering, mostly of children, throughout. Something in their past perhaps? Roland Orzabal and Curtis Smith were indeed a music force to be reckoned with in the 80's but how many bands can still sound so good 30 odd years on?!! It is my opinion that they were always under rated, never quite recieving the glory that was greatly deserved for their many musical masterpieces. The sound track of the album, The Hurting, is a very great favourite of mine, bringing back some memories of my own. But rather than being a sad song, for me it has made me realise that I am not alone! 'Memories fade but the scars still linger'...how true that is, another great Tears for Fears lyric.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2023
    One of my favourite albums from a timeless band with two great vocalists . As a teenager listening to this helped as I had an unhappy childhood and left home young. Their follow up album is just as good. Prisoner is my favourite track.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 January 2024
    a fab cd to replace a broken cassette tape

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  • alex
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
    Reviewed in Canada on 27 July 2023
    Happy to add to my collection. Good quality vinyl.
  • BoiaFaus
    5.0 out of 5 stars Capolavoro
    Reviewed in Italy on 12 May 2024
    Nulla da aggiungere, un capolavoro senza tempo.
  • Crispin martinez
    5.0 out of 5 stars Muy satisfecho
    Reviewed in Spain on 6 September 2021
    Muy satisfecho
  • Karla Amaya
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic and Powerful Album That We Can Relate To
    Reviewed in the United States on 20 January 2015
    Tears For Fears is one of my favourite bands and their debut album, "The Hurting", has a very powerful impact. It sticks to you and stays inside you. Tears For Fears have made such powerful music but it seems like this album is the one that seems to hold on more tighter thanks to the shared brilliance of Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. If you can't believe me, just listen to the lyrics in this album.
    Each song is unique in their own way. Here are my opinions on each song;
    The Hurting: Roland and Curt sing together to give us an insight of their thoughts and shows us that they are people with brilliant insight. No negative thoughts in this song (Not even in the other songs).
    Mad World: The title says it all but Curt says that we can do something to improve it. The song still sounds relevant even to this day.
    Pale Shelter: An insight of Roland and Curt's pasts and sung brilliantly and thoughtfully by Curt. Beautiful piece with electric and acoustic sounds.
    Ideas as Opiates: Can be a little difficult to understand at first but when you get used to it, you find that Roland is singing that we should care about one another. He's right.
    Memories Fade: Powerful song. You can actually feel, sense, and understand Roland's moods in his voice and the arrangements are cool.
    Suffer the Children: The first song made by Tears For Fears, Roland brings out the "twin" to Pale Shelter. Very thoughtful song about kids not getting enough love and attention as they grow up. And the vocalizations sung near the end before Roland says; "Suffer, suffer the children" are sung by Caroline Orzabal who was and still is Roland's wife.
    Watch Me Bleed: An non-negative song that we can all relate to with the lyrics: "I feel so young, I feel so old" because how many of us feel like life is moving too fast? Roland sells it with his lyrics but gives us hope when he says: "I'll close my eyes, I won't complain."
    Change: The title says it all and Curt reminds us that "you can change." Very good song and can be fun to dance to (if you like to dance to Tears For Fears, that is).
    The Prisoner: Definitely the song we can all easily relate to. The lyrics speak volumes but Curt reminds us that "love sets me free" and makes us see and know that we can break away from our negative thoughts and free ourselves from our prisons.
    Start of the Breakdown: Roland gives us an insight about a breakdown situation with the amazing keyboard and percussion arrangements. Hits your heart and makes us really think about our relationships.
    That's all I can say about these songs, folks. The extra songs in this album shows how Roland and Curt were learning to make their now-famous sound (read the booklet to get an idea of how the two were learning how to do it) and also shows a couple of b-sides such as The Conflict (also shows up in the Deluxe Edition of Songs From The Big Chair), We Are Broken (later named Broken for their Songs From The Big Chair album), an early version of The Prisoner, and Wino, which was previously unreleased and is the b-side to Suffer the Children along with different versions of Pale Shelter, Suffer the Children, Change, Mad World and interesting to listen to. But I do have one last thing to say; don't underestimate Tears For Fears or the title of the album and their songs. Roland and Curt have a positive attitude which is something we should have when we listen to them even if their songs may sound sad to you. So if you're a Tears For Fears fan, buy this album (don't forget the other ones as well) and enjoy but also feel every song and moment.
  • Virendra Gautam
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perennial favorite..
    Reviewed in India on 14 October 2015
    Another classic from the Duo of Tears for Fears!! Perennial favorite....