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This remastered version of THE SEEDS OF LOVE includes bonus tracks.
Tears For Fears: Roland Orzabal, Curt Smith.
Additional personnel includes: Oleta Adams (vocals, piano); Tessa Niles (vocals); Robbie McIntosh, Neil Taylor (guitar); Kate St. John (oboe, saxophone); Peter Hope Evans (harmonica); Jon Hassel (trumpet); Nicky Holland (piano, Kurtzweil Strings, background vocals); Simon Clark (Hammond organ, synthesizer); Ian Stanley (Hammond organ); Pino Palladino (bass); Manu Katche, Phil Collins, Chris Hughes (drums); Carol Steele (percussion); Maggie Ryder, Dolette McDonald, Carole Kenyon (background vocals).
Producers: Tears For Fears, David Bascombe.
Reissue producer: Mike Gill.
Includes liner notes by Richard Smith.
Digitally remastered by Jon Astley and Chris Hughes (Close To The Edge).
THE SEEDS OF LOVE completes a trilogy familiar to many careers: the tentative debut, the fully realized follow-up, and the grandiose third album. Four years in the making, it bears all the scars of struggle and indecision and is a fascinating account of a band torn between taking shelter in an MOR cocoon and fighting the zeitgeist that threatens to consign the band to the past.
"Badman's Song" opts for safety, reveling in a sophisticated lethargy. "Sowing the Seeds Of Love" is an unashamed Beatles pastiche that predates Oasis' "All Over the World" by almost a decade, and the solemn "Woman in Chains" features Phil Collins whilst also introducing Oleta Adams. "Year of the Knife" is perhaps the focal point of the tension. Its admirable flamboyance makes for more fun than could be expected from a half-live, three-part, seven-minute swaggering rock & roll track packed with guitar solos. Each track is a five-minute-plus mini-drama with moments of delicacy and discomfort, restraint and excess, inspiration and creative exhaustion. As the last album to feature Curt Smith, it is a fitting end to an era. The 1998 remastered edition includes four bonus tracks.
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