Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION! 

As an 80s lover (wasn’t alive during that decade but I love it, and my mom was a teen then) this was good to see

The 80's were one of the most innovative decades of music ever , dismiss them at your peril.

I think he doesn't like 80's production values. The drum machines and gated snares and chorused guitars and massive digital reverb. This song has stood the test of time because it is a great song and even though it has that 80's sound it doesn't sound cheesy and dated like so many 80's songs do.

Everyday decade has a vibe all it's own. The 80s was no different. If you truly love music you catch the vibe and let it lead you to the rest of it. Unless we're talking 2020's hip hop In which case I'm not even sure we were talking about music.

Let us be honest here - there was a lot of absolute *trash* released in the '80s. There's a lot of trash now, but the base quality of your average chart topper today is so much lower that it's a bit less dismaying than just how bad a lot of '80s songs were. When '80s music was good, it was very good indeed. When it wasn't, it was...oh, I dunno, Tony Basil's "Mickey"...

"Change" too!

"Sowing the Seeds of Love"

Definitely... *MAD WORLD* Best Song EVER! The Anthem of my Youth!

Sewing the seeds of Love is an artful masterpiece

Head over Heels best song on the 'Big Chair' album

Oh wow! I didn't know that had released a new album! Will have to check that out!

@@karenduell1027 Great Album!

Hell yes, the new album is fantastic.

Have to piggyback off of this, yes they are still making music and their latest album is genuinely great!

Absolutely! I was just watching vids of their recent shows and they are still killin' it.

they obviously heard it before… It’s just clickbait

@@work1343 Hearing something isn't the same as KNOWING it. I hate that this has to be explained a million times per video. I'm sure they have heard the song, but that doesn't mean they actually know/remember/are aware of it. That really should be common sense.

I was lucky to be stationed in England '77 to '86 .... Lived in Oxford, made many friends there and London. Spent most of my free time in London. The Clubs were crazy in those years! Saw all the Big Groups as they broke for next to nothing ... U2, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, The Police,Tears for Fears, Thompson Twins, Level 42, ABC, could go on for days! .... Saw Generation X in our Oxford Punk Pub "The Oranges and Lemons" for 50p .... The Lead Singer was Billy Idol!

Meeeee Tooooo

Take me with you. The 2020s suck...

Right?!

Me too. I would have,to go back to the 70's & then hit the 80's. Once I heard Tears for Fears I was hooked. But "Shout" is my favorite. I could listen to it over & over. ✌🌻🌻

Agreed, but Neil Taylor played the solos on the track.

Agreed. What he does is not difficult to play. But it's so damn tasty.

Amazing player. He sounds like a studio musician on this song.

@@SteveWeintraub346 Oh wow, I didn't know that. I think I assumed it was Roland based on what I saw in the video (or other videos). I will have to check out Neil Taylor's stuff. Roland plays the middle more jangly solo though, correct?

@@terryp4164 Roland does play the jangly solo in the live reunion clip. Don't know about the record.

Totally A track for this member of the Class of '88

They do we!!! Went this year and were blown away we go to concerts a lot and theirs stuck in my head for a long time. Try the Tipping Point out now!!

There were a number of 80s tunes that were S.

Odd how popular the 80s are in general among younger generations, but not here on the channel. Plenty of S tier 80s songs.

I agree - I think when people say '80's they forget about all the genres other than pop or new wave or art rock- of which I'm a huge devotee. But I think prog metal will get the "S". I'm starting my campaign of constant requests now - Operation Mindcrime. Whole album. 🔥🤘😠🤘🔥

Police and Sting songs from the 80s include S-level recordings.

*Take On Me* is totally S tier.

To the point that I STILL can't stand hearing it today.

@@RichHeimlich aww, but I understand. I still enjoy this song but excessive radio play did ruin other songs for me. Like a half dozen lynyrd skynyrd tracks among them.

Never heard of it

I remember the summer this came out being a kid at the beach with a speaker playing a top 40 station and this song and "shout" were alternated about every 15 minutes or so, lol!

Globally too! I listen to the album though rather than single songs there are other bangers on this record!

I know right? Me and my buddies (not in a band, but hard core rock fans) used to call bands like this F*GS. But even back then, every time I was alone and this song came on the radio, I blasted it, sang along, and yes, maybe even cried a little bit...because my life actually wasn't all I talked it up to be.

The guitar is excellent.

100% Agree!

This is the exact reason I came down to the comments! "Sowing the Seeds of Love," in my opinion, shows the best that this duo has to offer.

Their nod to the mature, psychedelic Sergeant Pepper Beatles.

Definitely agree 100%.

Yes, this is a fantastic song!!

Tears for Fears -- which for all intents and purposes basically was and is two guys, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith -- was heavily influenced in its early stages by the work of psychologist Arthur Janov, whose primal scream therapy was the driving force behind John Lennon's 1970 *John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band* album.

Greg just took the words right outta my mouth haha

Tears For Fears is, in fact, a reference to "Primal Scream therapy" -or, I think, "officially" known as: "primal therapy" (🤷🤷) (which, I believe, both Mr. Smith & Mr. Orzabal partook of, or were devotées of the theories behind, anyway), at some points in their lives.) I do not recall, exactly, WHAT the reference is, per se ...and I would say that over 95% of their audience had NO idea, whatsoever, at the time (I, myself, only, found out years-and-years later (I think there was some discussion about it, somewhere, when the band released their "comeback" album: The Seeds Of Love, in the 1990s (but that is, just, some vague memory, as well. I, personally, might not have known about it until the early aughts. 🤷🤷... )-)-) and many never had any inclination to figure-it-out, even (as there wasn't major discussion of it, on any regular basis.). As I recall, the choice of name may, ALSO, have been influenced by a love for John Lennon (assassinated in 1980. Years before Tears For Fears, ever, recorded an album.) -Roland Orzabal was, certainly, "a Beatles devotée" of some ilk (Clearly demonstrated by the, aforementioned: Seeds Of Love, & its deeply '60s-influenced, sound.) and, I am surmising, perhaps: a devotée of Mr. Lennon (musically and, perhaps, personally, as well.) and since John Lennon made his earliest breakthroughs using primal therapy and the work of (pardon me if I make a mistake w/the man's name. I BELIEVE it is:) ...Dr. Janov? and was a proponent (therefore) of the Dr.'s ideas, therapy and postulations. ...Whatever the case: the phrase "tears for fears," comes from/refers to THAT.

Also, the album name, " Songs from the Big Chair" is a reference to the book " Sybil"

@@kathynicholson103 Really?? I was NOT aware of that! "Sybil" was a huge cultural 'event' back in the '70s (sadly: almost entirely invented/fiction. ...but: I would guess that the attention to mental disease which came from attn. to that story, may have been something of an improvement (🤷🤷) ...a beginning of looking at such areas differently, in the long run. 🤷🤷 -Perhaps not, though 🤷 I don't, actually, know/can't tell. 🤷...).

Agreed. Rick's breakdown is excellent. And the lads gave him a shoutout on their FB page thanking him for the breakdown.

I think I know the part you mean! I had heard this song a thousand times but never noticed that extra high harmony riff (over "saayyy that you never never never never need it, one headline why believe it") before. I always knew something was special about that moment in the song but I never consciously "heard" it until Beato pointed it out.

@@lesliesterling826 I was always able to hear that part. Go back and watch his video on the first chorus at the 5 minute 20 second mark. That was what blew my mind.

"Head Over Heels" is way more complex.

Who sounded fake in the 80s? Just curious.

How about Flock of Seagulls, or Boy George?

They're not a band

Yes there was a lot of garbage in the eighties with to much tech. But not with tears for fears.

@@shanehenderson8756 Lol...you must be thinking of the Linn drum machine! Yeah. I know what you mean...I call it the Yamaha DX7/ Sequential Cicuit Prophet 5 era....but truth be told, as a keyboardist, there was a boatload of excellent music..Howard Jones, Thomas Dolby, etc.

Unless you grew up in the 60's and 70's ! Do love Tears for Fears though.

@@richardlindell9976 Well, I grew up in the 60's and 70s And yes a lot of good music, particularly Motown, but the 80s had some amazing new sounds - Depeche Mode for one.

@@deennaemilio if you think the Motown sound was more important than the Beatles, Who, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and many more, we are definitely not on the same page. Two different sounds, same era.

I saw em at Pine Knob outside Detroit this summer and they still got it! Played a bunch of tracks off their new album, too

Dean! Me too, although I wasn't such a glam metal guy, I was a Maiden, Priest, Queensryche etc. slave. But this was the first CD I ever bought. Can you remember how blown away you were when you heard your first CD through great speakers?

Always loved mad world change and pale shelter.

I love sewing the seeds of love!

Yes to all of these suggestions.

@@TheConservativeinaction Mad World is better in the Gary Jules cover from the movie Donnie Darko

@@robland6804 If you prefer Gary Jules's version of Mad World, you should watch the video of Curt Smith and his daughter doing that version a couple of years ago.

That's a nice song, but the previous are better

@@stirbjoernwesterhever6223 Different vibe...but just as cool and reflective of 80's rock pop

Or It Must Be Love

Every time I start a long Vacation Drive i always pop this on!

Yes. Considered one of the best albums from the decade!

Absolutely. It's a rare album from the era that actually works as more than just a collection of good songs. It's a surprisingly cohesive work!

@Eric B Most definitely!!😀🤘

Completely agree! For me it's the greatest album of the 80s

Yep, it's a HUGE Chair!

I definitely prefer Head Over Heels for those exact resasons

Agreed. This song and Shout- big hits, great songs, but sound almost dead compared to Head Over Heels. Also Change And Pale Shelter- from earlier (first?) album, in the early 80s, represent the shift in sound and are quintessential 80s light, layered, heady, sounds. The interesting thing about the 80s music I find, are the sounds. If you were there, you can easily tell which years certain songs came out just by the sounds.

So well put!! I don't really care for the 80's stuff, either, but "Head over Heels" hits! And he sang the hell out of it, too. The acoustics at my old job (in the back room) were pretty good, and I used to sing this when I was alone back there, HA! It felt so good to just let it rip.

That octave piano line at the beginning gets me every time. Fantastic.

We saw in Charlotte it was so freaking good❤️

@@michellecampbell5055 - that’s where we saw them!!

They are a superb band live, you're right.

Stuart, this song is literally written in 4/4. 😉

@@221b-Maker-Street It's 12/8.

Same! But sophomore year for me.

Yep, and every time I hear this song I'm instantly reminded of "Real Genius."

@Richard Dickson Same here. I was a junior in high school in Spring of 1985 when this song came out and hearing this song now transports me back to 1985.

You'll rue the day!

@@scottyyz who talks like that?

@@jasonremy1627 It's a moral imperative.

I love that film to death. Especially William Atherton who played Professor Jerry Hathaway. (BTW, he turns 75 tomorrow!)

Chris Knight: "I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said... 'I drank WHAT!?'" Chris Knight: "This?? This is ice. This is what happens when water gets too cold." Chris Knight: "Kent put his name on his license plate." Mitch: "My mother does that to my underwear." Chris Knight: "Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?"

There’s footage of a young Curt Smith in the crowd at the first concert of the ‘80s King Crimson - who used loads of gamelan-influenced polyrhythms (check out 1981’s “Discipline”). I’ve always wondered whether those sounds he heard that night from Fripp and Belew influenced them.

Mike Donoghue’s - Wow. Never knew that about Curt. Huge Crimson & Tears fan. Fortunate to have seen them both. Crimson 2 years ago and Tears last month ❤️

@@cirenosnor5768 The first King Crimson CD boxed set has a photo from their debut performance at Moles Club in Bath, England. They were called “Discipline” then before resurrecting the name KC. He’s stood at the front - and the caption to the photo cites this.

Hall & Oats - Sara Smile is the one I hear everytime I'm at the Grocery Store, Dentist Office or elevator..😉👍

👍

And it’s amazing!

I agree. If I could pick one 80's song to play for someone not familiar with 80's music, this would be the one.

@@descendantoffools9767 Could not disagree more. This only makes sense if you're English. When Doves Cry by Prince, Dreams by Van Halen, Crazy for You by Madonna -- all more 80s than this mope rock.

@@descendantoffools9767 I've heard that said many times & I totally agree. It's a timeless 80's anthem that instantly felt nostalgic. The lyrics, the synth, & Curt & Roland's harmonization are spot on.

I know metal guys who said "whaaat" at that melodic solo. Not ab there ... all style.

💯 They are the real deal.

Yeah they are still rockin' and still sound incredible; really one of the all-time great bands.

@John Hughes I’m am in total agreement, as usual!!!

I agree but I feel like they should do pale shelter or mad world first. Sowing the seeds would be a great finisher for them. Great song.

👍 definitely

My favorite Tears for Fears song.

Also don't forget the wonderful Woman in chains. so beautiful.

Same! I think they are underrated.

I can still listen to their music all day! I saw them live back in 1987 in San Diego. Great show!!

Absolutely, it is either #1 or #2 on my all time list, a masterpiece indeed!

I love the whole album, but The Working Hour may be my favorite track

You're right!

Also "Gold" by Spandau Ballet

And another 1985 classic; Dream Academy's "Life In A Northern Town"

I agree. Was not a fan of this kind of music as a teenager in the 80s but True has become one of my favorite songs and is one of those timeless 80s classics.

S tier!!