Tears for Fears- Head Over Heels (First Listen) 

I have never been able to understand why Tears for Fears has been such an underrated band ... !!! They are fantastic and their music is incredible.

Shiiiiet nobody today knows how good the 80's were. I miss it so damn much. I need a time warp away from here.

Totally agree, it's one of the best albums of the 80s. The Working Hour is my favourite TFF song, it has the best sax solo on any pop song.

One of the better 80s songs. It's crafted with such care...the overlapping melodies are so well interwoven.

5 stars. IMHO among the 10 greatest songs of all time.

Another great Tears for Fears songs is Mad World♥️

This song is fantastic.

Great British pop from the mid 80's (1985). Often got overlooked by both 'Shout', and 'Everybody wants to Rule the World'. Quality tune.

Great 80’s Classic! I may even check out the whole album now. 👍🏼

definitely old school means good music

I was so lucky to be a teen of the 80’s...great music. Just saw Tears for Fear with Hall & Oats and they both were fabulous. Sound just as good as they did in the 80’s. Need to review the great Hall & Oats of the 70’s - Sara Smile put them on the R&B map. Thank you for doing this great classic...this is my favorite!

Even more awesome with _Broken_ either side.

Guys - do Don't Dream It's Over by Crowded House

I used to work for an inventory company in the 80s and we traveled all over counting stores. This "cassette" rarely left my player. They carried me through a lot of miles across many states! 💯

You're 100% correct, one of the best albums of the 80's!! Also of the 80's best groups. They were far more than just a haircut and a clothing style. Those two guys were MAJOR talents! I'm guessing you all were probably not even born yet when this album was released? My favorite song on the album is probably "I Believe." Awesome vocal performance on that song!

I am a massive tears for fears fan. I have ALL the album’s

My favorite band of all time. As a group and Roland Orzabal as solo Tears for Fears. He is a master lyricist and song writer and Curt Smith is a masterful bassist. Understated but groovy. He doesn't smack you in the face with it but his arrangements are intricate. The fact that he can sing and play at the same time blows my mind. This album in particular is phenomenal. The Working Hour is on this album and that's an overall fan favorite.

If you've seen the movie, Donnie Darko, the whole movie has an 80s theme and bits of music from that time.

Thanks for this one guys! You just ruined my attempt to wash my face; I couldn't stop dancing around the bathroom and singing at the top of my voice! I'm off to dig out my CD and listen to this in the car :-)

For me, Broken, Head over heels and Broken live should be listened to all together, always because it's an epic listen.

This was recommended so I clicked. Just wanted to say that their first album, The Hurting, is just as amazing. Mad World is in it and try to listen to Change and Pale Shelter. There are more but I’ll stop with those two songs. The world was probably not ready for these two in the first album. But they are crazy talented. Love them. ❤

The production on this album is incredible.

Ah my only exposure to this song must have been from Donnie Darko. Never got to hear the full cut til now, 🙏🏼 thanks

Sowing the Seeds of Love...another great song by Tears For Fears👍🏼

Excellent reaction. I can tell you guys are really into music, into all the details, nuances, etc. Nice!!

Musicianship, great arrangements, space and dynamics. The movements flow through the song and draw you in.

One of the best albums of the 80s, and maybe the last 50 years for that matter.

This to me is the greatest love song ever, in that it captures so perfectly that feeling of when you realize that you're in love. And the lyric "It's hard to be a man with a gun in you're hand" is just philosophically brilliant. A perfect example a pop song that is also high art. It 's a joy watching your reactions.

This was another big hits of theirs! Watching them sing is another level to their music.

The Cure - Friday I'm in Love :)

This is one of my favorite songs from my high school years. Really took me back to better times. Not just personally, but worldwide as well. Thank you for this reaction!

Great song from an ever greater album, "Songs From The Big Chair." There's not a bad track on it. You guys should have included the live version of "Broken" which came right after this song. It's my favorite from the album.

Lemmo throw out a rando for you: Echo & the Bunnymen : “The Killing Moon”

Curt bass line exemplary

This is a cracking song. TFF were so talented and were one of the best acts out of the 80s. I bought this album when it first came out and have not listened to it for 30 years or so. This has inspired me to go up to the attic and get that album down! Really brilliant; brings back many memories. I loved Everybody Wants to Rule The World, and it was one of my favourite dancing songs. Whenever I think of EWTRTW I also think of 'A Little Respect' by Erasure; its programmed into me. That's because I used to weekly go to a club in the 80s called The Mandrake Club (in Bristol) and like many clubs they often played records in a certain order. Whenever they played EWTRTW it was always immediately followed by A Little Respect, and I danced to those two songs in order so many times in the 80s I still cannot separate them entirely. I expect many other people link records for similar reasons. Some great music in the 80s and I am a die-hard early Genesis fan! Sigh, I miss those days...

_Songs from the Big Chair_ is the literal musical definition of the mid-1980s ... along with _Purple Rain_ and _Brothers In Arms._

I bought the cassette of Songs from The Big Chair in June 1985. One of the few 80s albums that had no fillers.

One of the greatest pop albums of all time.

Songs from The Big Chair was inspired by the Movie Sybil Starring Sally Field who played a Woman with 16 Different Personalities. When she did her "Sessions" with her Psychiatrist with Joanna Newman (Paul's Wife). she sat in a Big Chair. This was done at a University Library in Toronto, Ontario which isn't surprising. Besides being under British Rule and Law, Tears For Fears, The Police, them, Duran Duran as well as The Backstreet Boys were big in Canada before The USA.

I bloody love this song.

Yes. One of the greatest for sure, front to back

Fantastic review of a fantastic track! Vaporwave love! You guys rock.

Great track. Still sounds fresh! Sowing the Seeds of Love and Women in Chains are up there with this. Nice work. Greetings from Scotland

Greatest era for me is the early 80's. I discovered real music in 1981. Anything that was on the radio that year through 1985 takes me to my happy place.

You guys are really great to watch.

Los años 80 la mejor época en música... Tears for Fears lo máximo los escucho siempre.

Ahhhh! Tears For Fears has been "my band" since I was a teenager in the 1980's.

the working hour

Great to see a reaction video where there's no distraction to the music video. Nice!

Very cool to get to hear Manny’s fangirl voice at the end. That album was part of the soundtrack of my youth and you guys nailed it, Head over Heels is pretty much a perfect pop song. Great show!

came across your channel JPMP and sunscribe and click like :) i love the 80's music and 80's videos , love 80's era forever :) Tears for fears is one of many i love from the 80's :) another great Tears for fears song is " advice for the young at heart " :)

Ahhh love this song so much!

That is SO COOL that you are turning your friend on to TFF!! I am the biggest fan! I’ve seen them multiple times, starting n 1985 on the SFTBC tour!! Love them! You should react to “Year of the Knife”!

Gotta do A-ha

Songs From The Big Chair might be the most well produced album I've ever heard. I first heard the whole album at a restaurant in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 1996, and it's been one of my favorites (a desert island disk for sure) ever since. I think that it "Head Over Heels" really needs to be allowed to progress into "Broken (Live)", as on the album they're paired so closely they are almost the same song. Kinda like "Waiting For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago" by ZZ top. Just subscribed.

Watch the official video as well

This was all over the radio my first year of college. Used to hear it all the time on the drive to LIU.

That was one amazing album. Between that song and Mother's Talk, I was one happy camper. Great reaction!

ohh I remember you tweeting about this not too long ago! very enjoyable sound :) I'm inclined to agree with Manny on the favorite era of music, the early '00s were really something, but I also really dig the 90s grunge

Awesome 👍.... try ( shout) by tears for fears!! .....great music bros ...I know I'll enjoy it👌⭐ Joe B from Laredo, Texas

Love watching you too!😃🥰

Mothers Talk is a great song from that album that is underrated in my opinion, more tears for fears reactions please :)

Saw them live in Feb 2019, they were outstanding, this is also my fave TFF song, have you heard Woman In Chains from the Sowing The Seeds of Love album. But yes Songs from the Big Chair is their best album IMO. You have fantastic taste btw 👌🏻👍🏻

Oh here's another fun fact. When The US Dance Show American Bandstand celebrated 33 1/3 Years on The Air in 1985 Tears For Fears along with Simon Lebon & Nick Rhodes who were doing their "Outside" Project Arcadia who wished "Bandstand" and Dick Clark all the best. This wasn't surprising since Dick had so many UK Artists on the Show and it was during that time that the Second Wave Of The British was at it's Peak.

80s the best time for variety of music, my personal being the UK synthpop wave of bands which exploded on to the pop music scene. Tears For Fears previous album (their debut) “The Hurting” is one of my favorite 80s synthpop albums. Amazing tracks like “Change”, “Mad World”, “Pale Shelter”. They followed up with the epic “Songs From The Big Chair” which would end up being one of the most popular albums of the 80s. This track “Head Over Heels” is my favorite off the album. The video is pretty iconic as well.

This album was one of my favorites then. I still remember bands like Duran Duran, China Crisis, Depeche Mode and others.

Nine to see Manny (sp) so positive. Nice you both enjoyed it. Stay cool guys.

Manny is chair grooving! Love it and him!

A Jam! A Banger!

Dude on the left is activated by music. Dude on the right is soothed by music. Pretty cool responses!

Gotta thank you JP, I never heard of "vaporware" music before. It lead me down a deep rabbit hole to cyberpunk, outrun and vaporwave music. Super interesting stuff!!!

Favorite TFF song ever. My top 80’s just after Don’t Dream it’s Over by Crowded House. You gotta review that song. Uhhh so good. But amazing song. Sowing the Seeds of Love is my next favorite TFF song. Thank you!!

This could be T4F's best song. I loved it as a kid, and it sill fills me with joy. They were really strong songwriters, and masters of melody. That's coming from a prog rock/metal fan ;-) These days this song always makes me think of Donnie Darko.

Cool reaction! :-) I was in my teens in the 80's, so musically speaking, those were my formative years. My nominations for some of the greatest albums of the 80's would be (in no particular order)... Hounds of Love - Kate Bush. Widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time, never mind just the 80's! Side one has a handful of really solid singles, and side two, The Ninth Wave, which is a concept suite, is an absolute masterpiece. So - Peter Gabriel. Ex frontman of Genesis...'nuff said! For me, the opening track, Sledgehammer, is the sound of the 80's. Discipline - King Crimson. This one took us all by surprise back then, as they kind of reinvented themselves with what was then a really fresh, new wave sound. I think it's stood the test of time really well, as it still sounds strikingly original (imo at least). I would love to see you react to any of the above. :-)

So proud I spent my teen years on the 80s. So much good music that I still love! Tears for Fears were so good! I also love "Working Hour", "Mothers Talk", "Mad World", "Sowing the Seeds of Love". Recently learned Roland has Spanish blood...his grandpa was from Argentina.

Yeah that is definitely my favorite Tears for Fears song hands down. I am gonna put in a completely random request for you to listen to Lady Vengeance by the Moulettes, I genuinely think you guys would like it. Its kind of british folk, indie, pop, prog thing.

Just watched them trust me best in the world

Songs From The Big Chair is a solid album, but I love The Hurting as much. Tears For Fears is great. I do think how manny narrowed down his preferred era of music makes more sense though since the music of the ‘80s is so varied. Of course, 2002-2007 is an interesting time period, (makes me wonder how old y’all were during those years,) especially since to me “emo” always referred to a different set of bands and style, (primarily post-hardcore bands,) which was, interestingly enough, already a detraction from the music initially considered “emo.” I feel like it’s hard to pinpoint a specific era since, for me. Most people stop seeking out new music at a certain point in time, which is why I love so many reaction channels, like this one, because it seems like an effort is being made to change that. I think if we looked at specific artists or genres/styles of music I could pick definitive favorites. I am always looking for new music, whether it’s old music that is new to me, revisiting old music and forming a new opinion, or seeking new, contemporary music. I definitely didn’t quite get Vaporwave at first because of how heavily drug references can play in some of it, and the problem I had with that is really that those vaporwave artists, video creators, & visual artists seemed to overlap a lot with the SoundCloud, mumble rappers obsession with “drug culture” culture. Since diving in a little deeper I’ve found a lot of the Vaporwave movement I love, (from the fashion aesthetic to the music & the hour-long, screensaver-esque RU-vid mixes.) And of course, as with every genre, a lot of artists I already like had been mislabeled as vaporwave or are totally vaporwave but didn’t get the label because they came before the movement started or the artists just didn’t know it was a thing. I highly recommend playing some vaporwave while writing, editing, or working on any creative thing where you don’t want lyrics pulling your brain away from the work at hand. *(I love getting on Bandcamp and using their search filters. I specially love the geographic filter, type in a city name and seeing if anyone there is posting their original tracks.)

I always loved the Shout video because the guys included multiple generations of their families for the chorus. That song, and the album title, may have been about therapy, but it had a joyous feel for me.

Yeah guys, this whole album is amazing! Good call. For more classic 80s check out Peter Gabriel’s SO (Don’t Give Up and Mercy Street), R.E.M.’s MURMUR (Radio Free Europe and Sitting Still), and The Smith’s THE QUEEN IS DEAD (Bigmouth... and There Is A Light....).

Enjoying watching you guys!Love Tears For Fears. Also check out David and David, Welcome To The Boomtown. Very cool song, listen to the longer version (not the video which cut off the ending.)

Oh man, you teased listening to The Working Hour!!! Would love to see a reaction just to that. It's been the soundtrack to some cool dreams I've had over the years. Very deep song musically.

If you like TFF, check out their prior late 70's/early 80's band GRADUATE! Smith and Orzabal are fantastic songwriters.

The vid goes great with it. Mad world. Sowing the seeds of love. Woman in chains

awesome video

Don't know anything about you two but Manny is so good at drumming in the air! Good video.

If I could recommend one song by Tears for Fears later catalog, it would be "Sketches of Pain". Incredibly moving song

The song was used in the cult classic movie 'Donnie Darko'

My favorite band from the eighties! They’re still together and put out many albums after “Songs From The Big Chair”.

I’m a lot older than you and I LOVE that you said that this is the best album to come out of the 80s; I could not agree more. I personally am a woman of the 60s and 70s classic rock and pop and found most 80s music horrible; then I heard TFFand was relieved that a decade hadn’t been wasted! ✌🏼♥️🎼

It could have been THE classic album of the 80s if it weren’t for the fact the follow up The Seeds Of Love is even better and my 80s classic.

Hey i was just thinking about Chicago. "Does Anyone Really Know What The Time It is", "25 or 6 to 4", "Colour My World", "Saturday In The Park". They were just a Great band and those songs puts my Dad in a Hella good mood! Give them a shot!

I'd love to see you guys react to some 80s King Crimson. Three of a Perfect Pair is one of my favorites.

Besides being a definite Five, this was also one of my favorite music videos from those days. Great reaction.

Justin your right on as usual.

Wow this music is the the soul of angels on earth!!!

Never got into Tears for Fears, but I like all their hits, including this one. You didn't tell Manny about Mad World. He should be familiar with it, if he ever watched Donnie Darko. Although that is the - now far more popular, apparently - cover by Gary Jules. EDIT: Oh right...this song was in that movie, too! Hold on...they put an original TfF song in the movie. Then they put a cover of their song in the same movie. Should have went with the original, as well. By the way, that movie has yet another song you already reviewed: Love Will Tear Us Apart The snippets you played sound like they are somewhere inbetween The Cure and Depeche Mode. Always thought the singer sounded similar to Dave Gahan from the latter.

Depeche Mode/One Caress official video

Should've included "Broken" to begin with, it's a good segue.

Tears for fears the best ever especially this song should sing along