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infection said:
So the past couple days I've been listening to the new (2022) Tears for Fears album. There's a pattern for me that bands that I've liked for years or growing up, somehow it's easy to neglect new music being released because my idea of who the band is becomes pretty cemented in whatever great albums I listened to while growing up. As a result of life and also the way things have changed in society over the past 20 years, I don't experience music in quite the same way as I did growing up. While listening to an entire album happens, the availability of that has drastically changed, so it's harder (for me) to consume something as an album rather than individual tracks. In conjunction with this, every album has skippable tracks and most albums aren't great from start to finish (even if there are still one or two tracks that aren't as great). I'm pretty picky (in terms of albums, I really only have a handful of them). So I'd say it's been at least 20 years where I've found something where I've said it's an amazing album. But color me surprised about this most recent TFF album. I'd put this up there with Songs From The Big Chair. I'm surprise there hasn't been much fanfare for this, but again that's, to some degree, dictated by how society consumes music.

Three tracks I'd highlight here:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AixmRjSWNZ4

This is a more upbeat and catchy one.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx2UQzbQDPw

I thought it was funny how strong of a Beatles vibe it gives off even just 10 seconds in and then he mentions the Beatles within the first minute. Good song, though.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc7whFL5UEk

This is the real gem on the album.
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This album is phenomenal. My wife and I went to see them last year, and even the songs she didn't know (she hadn't listened to the new album) she thought were moving.

Another one who has been putting out great stuff the last few years is Gary Numan. He's taken the influences he put out into the world (most obviously Nine Inch Nails) and brought it back to himself.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHomCiPFknY
 
gandalfe said:
This album is phenomenal. My wife and I went to see them last year, and even the songs she didn't know (she hadn't listened to the new album) she thought were moving.

Another one who has been putting out great stuff the last few years is Gary Numan. He's taken the influences he put out into the world (most obviously Nine Inch Nails) and brought it back to himself.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHomCiPFknY
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Where did you see them at? I had considered flying down to Phoenix a couple years ago but didn't do it. Kind of regretting that because I'm not sure what their touring future holds. Roland looks like he's 80 but is only 61 so maybe they've still got some gas left in the tank.
 
infection said:
Where did you see them at? I had considered flying down to Phoenix a couple years ago but didn't do it. Kind of regretting that because I'm not sure what their touring future holds. Roland looks like he's 80 but is only 61 so maybe they've still got some gas left in the tank.
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It was at a place just North of Portland, an amphitheater. Really nice place, actually, decent food for a concert venue, comfy seats. They were amazing, best concert I've seen in years.

Honestly, their first couple of albums were extremely mature for pop music, tackling themes that you just don't normally see. They lost that for a bit with all the infighting in the band and such, but this album tackles real adult issues, not just falling in love or whatever. The title track, The Tipping Point, was about that feeling he had while he was in the hospital watching his wife die.
 
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I'm not sure how popular this song is and it may be well known but if you've ever experienced addiction with someone you care deeply about this song hits. I've been listening to it on repeat as it really hits home with losing close ones to a ****** disease.

 
gandalfe said:
This album is phenomenal. My wife and I went to see them last year, and even the songs she didn't know (she hadn't listened to the new album) she thought were moving.

Another one who has been putting out great stuff the last few years is Gary Numan. He's taken the influences he put out into the world (most obviously Nine Inch Nails) and brought it back to himself.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHomCiPFknY
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Gary Numan has been consistently good for a long time. Love his music.
 
I love me some Kendrick, cool to hear my favorite player getting love for his assists.
Stockton getting some love here.
 
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So it's kind of funny. The first album I ever owned was a cassette tape of Billy Joel's Storm Front. My dad had gotten me that because I liked "We Didn't Start the Fire." I've recently realized how many other songs are on that album that I never listened to (never listened to anything besides that one song back in the early 90s). Anyway, over the last decade or so is when I had realized that I liked "I Go To Extremes," having been familiar with it over the years. I recently discovered "And So It Goes" which is worth a listen. However, we recently went to Thailand and my wife and I ended up watching Hangover II, as we'd never seen it, to see the filming locations in Thailand and heard "The Downeaster Alexa" and there's a lot to like about that song. I'm really big into soundscape and the subtle augmenting guitar sounds and a pretty amazing vocal performance. Surprised it took me watching The Hangover to know about this song.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duNltFtDR4Y
 
infection said:
So it's kind of funny. The first album I ever owned was a cassette tape of Billy Joel's Storm Front. My dad had gotten me that because I liked "We Didn't Start the Fire." I've recently realized how many other songs are on that album that I never listened to (never listened to anything besides that one song back in the early 90s). Anyway, over the last decade or so is when I had realized that I liked "I Go To Extremes," having been familiar with it over the years. I recently discovered "And So It Goes" which is worth a listen. However, we recently went to Thailand and my wife and I ended up watching Hangover II, as we'd never seen it, to see the filming locations in Thailand and heard "The Downeaster Alexa" and there's a lot to like about that song. I'm really big into soundscape and the subtle augmenting guitar sounds and a pretty amazing vocal performance. Surprised it took me watching The Hangover to know about this song.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duNltFtDR4Y
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It’s a good album. I like all the songs you mentioned, but over the years “Leningrad” has risen to the top for me. It’s an excellent song. Not popular, but powerful.

 
JazzMan4Life said:
I love me some Kendrick, cool to hear my favorite player getting love for his assists.
Stockton getting some love here.
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It's a dig at Drake in relation to Malone getting an underage girl pregnant. Kendrick's passing like Stockton ... to Drake(Malone)... That's an angle Kendrick has been attacking Drake from. He's accusing him of being a paedo.
 
stitches said:
It's a dig at Drake in relation to Malone getting an underage girl pregnant. Kendrick's passing like Stockton ... to Drake(Malone)... That's an angle Kendrick has been attacking Drake from. He's accusing him of being a paedo.
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hmm i'm confused... Karl didn't exist before 1985 and my favorite basketball player John Stockton retired to the woods never to speak again.
 
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