I’ll let that one sink in for a while.
Tears for Fears‘ synth-pop debut The Hurting was released in 1983. That being thirty years ago, it has received some special attention from Universal Music Catalogue and Virgin/EMI and will be reissued on October 21st as a box set including the original album, a disc of remixes and B-sides, a BBC sessions disc, and a DVD of a live show at the Hammersmith Odeon recorded in 1984.
The complete tracklist is
DISC ONE
The Original Album
The Hurting
Mad World
Pale Shelter
Ideas As Opiates
Memories Fade
Suffer The Children
Watch Me Bleed
Change
The Prisoner
Start Of The Breakdown
DISC TWO
Singles, B-Sides, Mixes & Rarities
Suffer The Children (original 7″)
Pale Shelter (original 7″)
The Prisoner (original version)
Ideas As Opiates
Change (new version)
Suffer The Children (remix)
Pale Shelter (original 12″)
Mad World (world remix)
Change (extended version)
Pale Shelter (reissue 12″)
Suffer The Children (instrumental)
Change (7″ edit)
Wino (B-side)
The Conflict (B-side)
We Are Broken (B-side)
Suffer The Children (promo CD)
DISC THREE
The BBC Sessions
Ideas As Opiates (Peel Session)
Suffer The Children (Peel Session)
The Prisoner (Peel Session)
The Hurting (Peel Session)
Memories Fade (Jensen Session)
The Prisoner (Jensen Session)
The Start Of The Breakdown (Jensen Session)
The Hurting (Jensen Session)
Start Of The Breakdown (Live)
Change (Jensen Session)
DISC FOUR – DVD
‘In My Mind’s Eye’ – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, 1984.
Start Of The Breakdown
Mothers Talk
Pale Shelter
The Working Hour
The Prisoner
Ideas As Opiates
Mad World
We Are Broken
Head Over Heels
Suffer The Children
The Hurting
Memories Fade
Change