false 2025-11-08 04:17:17 Mad World: The Collection 2009 2009-05-05 2009-05-05 157 Art Pop New Wave Pop Pop Rock Psychedelic Pop Sophisti-Pop Synth-Pop ce250b09-c20c-4cc5-bdf7-79843f91eed1 7c7f9c94-dee8-4903-892b-6cf44652e2de 17eb3a4b-2b5a-4bf6-911b-63e4b260acfd /media/data/media5/Music/Tears for Fears/Mad World_ The Collection/folder.jpg Tears for Fears Tears for Fears Various Artists 1 1 Shout 06:30 1 2 Everybody Wants to Rule the World 04:09 1 4 Mad World 03:32 1 5 Head Over Heels 04:15 1 6 Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down) 04:39 1 7 The Hurting 04:15 1 8 Suffer the Children 03:51 1 9 Mothers Talk 05:00 1 10 Lord of Karma 04:29 1 11 Cold 05:04 1 12 New Star 04:24 1 13 When in Love With a Blind Man 02:25 1 14 Pharaohs (single version) 03:41 1 15 We Are Broken 04:05 1 16 Ideas as Opiates 03:48 1 17 The Big Chair 03:33 1 18 Brian Wilson Said 04:24 2 1 Change (radio edit) 03:54 2 2 Woman in Chains 06:25 2 3 Tears Roll Down 03:14 2 4 Advice for the Young at Heart 04:48 2 5 Break It Down Again 04:32 2 6 The Prisoner 02:56 2 7 The Body Wah 05:19 2 8 The Marauders 04:13 2 9 Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams 04:19 2 10 Empire Building 02:51 2 11 The Conflict 04:03 2 12 Ghost Papa 03:55 2 13 The Way You Are 04:56 2 14 I Believe 04:44 2 15 Famous Last Words 04:22 2 16 Deja-Vu and the Sins of Science 06:14 2 17 Year of the Knife 07:11 5 4 Sowing the Seeds of Love 06:16 Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, Tears for Fears were associated with the synth-pop bands of the 1980s, and attained international chart success as part of the Second British Invasion. The band's debut album, The Hurting (1983), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and their first three hit singles – "Mad World", "Change", and "Pale Shelter" – all reached the top five in the UK Singles Chart. Their second album, Songs from the Big Chair (1985), reached number one on the US Billboard 200, achieving multi-platinum status in both the US and the UK. The album contained two US Billboard Hot 100 number one hits: "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", both of which also reached the top five in the UK with the latter winning the Brit Award for Best British Single in 1986. Their belated follow-up, The Seeds of Love (1989), entered the UK chart at number one and yielded the transatlantic top 5 hit "Sowing the Seeds of Love". After touring The Seeds of Love in 1990, Orzabal and Smith had an acrimonious split. Orzabal retained the Tears for Fears name as a solo project, releasing the albums Elemental (1993) – which produced the international hit "Break It Down Again" – and Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995). Orzabal and Smith reconciled in 2000 and released an album of new material, Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, in 2004. The duo have toured on a semi-regular basis since then. After being in development for almost a decade, the band's seventh album, The Tipping Point, was released in 2022, giving the band their sixth UK Top 5 album and their highest chart peak in 30 years, and reaching the Top 10 in numerous other countries, including the US. In 2021, Orzabal and Smith were honoured with the Ivor Novello Award for 'Outstanding Song Collection' recognising their "era-defining Tears for Fears albums" and "critically acclaimed, innovative hit singles".