As part of Record Store Day 2021 Tears For Fears will release Live At Massey Hall as 2xLP and a single CD on 12 June. This is a RSD first with limited numbers but a wider release is expected later: Taken from the their Songs from The Big Chair tour, this double album captures the band live in Canada in 1985. Mixed from newly found multi-tracks, this is the first time the band has had a live album in this format. SIDE ONE • Mothers Talk • Broken • Head Over Heels / Broken • Pale Shelter SIDE TWO • Memories Fade • Start of the Breakdown • The Prisoner SIDE THREE • I Believe • The Working Hour • Mad World SIDE FOUR • Everybody Wants to Rule the World • The Hurting • Shout Record Store Day
I'm really looking forward to this. I hadn't noticed the phrase "newly found multi-tracks" before. Hopefully that's a sign that the sound will be better than the tracks on the 2014 super deluxe box set. Bring it on!
I’m trying to recall if I did the merch for this show, as that was the era I was on tours and doing Massey Hall, the Band Shell, etc. Memory fades...
As I mentioned in the other thread, this is a dream come true to me. One of the most essential music releases of the past 10 years for me. The key of the announcement is the line "newly found multi-tracks". I'm really curious to see how this sounds. The only way to make this better would be a complete restoration of the film of the concert, but god knows where are those tapes and how much a full restoration would cost. Given the shocking lack of TFF releases over the years (e.g.: the entire lifespan of the DVD advent passed without a proper video collection; there are still no vinyl releases for Raoul and ELAHE, etc), this Live At Massey Hall release is a completely unexpected gem. The only downside of this is why-oh-why it's having such a limited release. 1500 copies in the UK and 3500 copies in the US for a band who sold 30 million albums seems ridiculously low.
Haven't seen any announced so far for your side of the pond, but 750 copies in the UK for RSD. I'm guessing the wider release (whenever that is) should include a CD edition.
they went conservative on the first printing of the deluxe seeds set. which sold out almost instantly. one would think they would have learned from that.
If I walked into a store and saw this it’d be an instant buy. But of course it’s RSD so that probably won’t happen.
Head Over Heels: UMe Debuts Vintage Tears for Fears Live Set for RSD Drops 2021 APRIL 8, 2021 BY MIKE DUQUETTE Among Universal Music Group’s RSD Drop offerings for Record Store Day’s two-pronged 2021 celebration include a previously unreleased live double album from Tears for Fears. Live At Massey Hall captures the British rockers supporting sophomore album Songs from the Big Chair as it starts to take off worldwide. When the group started a four-date stand at the Toronto theatre at the end of May 1985, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” was on its way to topping the U.S. charts. (“Shout” would follow later that summer.) Indeed, nearly all of the album is featured in the set, including “Rule the World,” “Shout,” singles “Head Over Heels,” “Mothers Talk” and “I Believe,” and favorite album tracks “The Working Hour” and “Broken.” The rest of the set features the cream of TFF’s 1983 debut The Hurting, including “Mad World,” “Pale Shelter” and “Memories Fade.” The expanded concert line-up of the group at Massey – core members Roland Orzabal (vocals/guitar) and Curt Smith (vocals/bass), in-studio sidemen Ian Stanley (keyboards), Manny Elias (drums) and Will Gregory (saxophone), guitarist Andy Sanders and second keyboardist Nicky Holland (a key member of sessions for 1989 follow-up The Seeds of Love) – has been heard on official releases before. Footage from the shows appeared in the Scenes from the Big Chair documentary, and six tracks were included on the Big Chair box set released in 2014. (Four of them had been heard before that, on a Canadian promo disc in 1986.) The material on this set, however, has been newly mixed from recently-located multitrack tapes, offering the first optimized listening experience for a classic Tears for Fears concert. TFF have had an active year despite the slowdown of the music industry: they gave The Seeds of Love the box set treatment last fall, signed to Irving Azoff’s management company, got their last album (2004’s Everybody Loves a Happy Ending) digitally available after a lengthy absence, and continue work on their seventh studio album. Live At Massey Hall is limited to 3,500 copies worldwide and will be sold on the first RSD Drop date (June 12) at all participating retailers. The full track list is below! Live At Massey Hall (Mercury/UMe, 2021) All tracks recorded live at Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – 5/29-6/1/1985 LP 1, Tracks 2-3 and 5 and LP 2, Track 4 possibly previously released on Live At Massey Hall promo – Vertigo (Canada) DJV173, 1986 LP 1, Tracks 2-3 and 5 and LP 2, Tracks 2, 4 and 6 possibly previously released on Songs from the Big Chair box set – Mercury (U.K.) 3794991, 2014 Head Over Heels: UMe Debuts Vintage Tears for Fears Live Set for RSD Drops 2021 - The Second Disc
If this is the Memories Fade live version in 1985.. Then that was the Best of Roland, the sax player and especially Ian Stanley. Those are the 2 other key ingredients that made them so big. Well if so, I'm getting it. There are probably only 2 male pop vocalist that really blew my mind. Its Roland Orzabal's Prime and Tony Hadley.
I think we can all agree that this is the definitive version of this track As I said before, I’m very curious to see how they will mix this set. Hopefully they won’t fall in the Pink Floyd trap and try to de80size it, sucking the reverb out of it and making everything sound drier.