Track Listing

1. Mad World
2. Change
3. Pale Shelter
4. Way You Are
5. Suffer the Children
6. Mothers Talk [US Remix]
7. Shout
8. Everybody Wants to Rule the World
9. Head Over Heels
10. I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording)
11. Sowing the Seeds of Love
12. Woman in Chains - Oleta Adams, Tears for Fears
13. Advice for the Young at Heart
14. Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)
15. Break It Down Again
16. New Star [From the Movie Threesome]
17. Goodnight Song

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2928 in Music
• Released on: 2001-09-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Album Description
Tears For Fears, Shout: The Very Best of Tears for Fears

Customer Reviews

NON-REMASTERED RECYCLED HITS PACKAGE WITH SUB-STANDARD AUDIO

Although this CD was released in 2001, it is simply a recycled "Tears Roll Down: Greatest Hits "82 - "92" CD with new packaging and added tracks. The tracks contained in this CD are NOT the remastered tracks made available on the remastered TFF studio albums released in 1999.

This seems to be a disturbing trend on the part of Universal: Re-packaging pre-existing, sonically inferior, greatest hits CD's with new packaging and added tracks.

All of the content of this CD exists in remastered form on the remastered TFF CD's re-released in 1999. It's a great collection of songs, but from an audio standpoint, these tracks have lowered volume and do not have the wide audio soundstage of the 1999 remasters. When A/B'd, the difference is not subtle: the remasters sound like a heavy cloth is taken off the speakers, compared to the older masters on this CD.

Once again, a big "BOOO HISSSS" to Universal, where mediocrity seems to abound!

Letting It Out
In the 1980's, there were just so many different amazing groups that really did deliver to what pop music should really have, feeling. Yet, today, I honestly don't even come close to seeing that with acts like Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, and Ciara to name a few. When it ame to acts that put the boldness into the music, Tears For Fears really did bring it out plenty of times. Back in 1992, the British pop group had a highly successful hits package, Tears Roll Down, in what made them a gre group. Unfortunately, awhile ago, the record was no longer issued to the public, and a substitute was conjured.

Shout: The Very Best Of Tears For Fears, replaces the Tears Roll Down package for longtime fans of the 80's group, but nevertheless, it also does deliver. The compilation seems more like a extended version of Tears Roll Down, and it does deliver as well. The compilation includes all of their big hits like the peppy 80's hit Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Shout, and the epic pop ballad Sowing The Seeds Of Love. The collection also does add a little bit more, with tracks like the overshadowed Break It Down Again, which was during the post Curt Smith era record Elemental. The album is fairly compiled, but could've been remastered a bit better.

All in all, for anybody who hasn't heard these great pop gems and guilty pleasures, Tears For Fears had a whole lot to say for advice for the young at heart. Shout: The Very Best Of Tears For Fears is a great compilation for anybody who doesn't own a Tears For Fears record. That is something to shout about.

Album Cover: C

Songs: B

Price: B+

Mastering: B-

Overall: B 1/2-

One of the best greatest hits collections out there
Tears For Fears were definitely one of the best bands of the 80's decade. This album has all the hits (yes, most of all these songs were hits) in America and the UK. The sound is superior. The liner notes say that the songs were 96k/24 bit mastered. This brings out the highlights in the layering of the instruments and vocals. It also includes the hard to find US remix of "Mother's Talk", which I've been looking for quite some time.

Maybe a couple songs could be considered "filler", but even these songs bring a diverse sound to this collection. This is a band that should be given more credit than they usually get!