I remember buying this album for the song Shout..and it turned out to be a pretty good album . I went to the rock promoter at the Polygram / Mercury label and got the hook up on all the remixes. Here are some of my favorite songs on the Songs From The Big Chair album:




"Head Over Heels"


"Shout"


"Everybody Wants To Rule The World"


"I Believe"


"Mothers Talk"

StarMon said:

AAAAA! I love this song!

I listen to at least one of these songs every week. It's always on one of my playlist. I told a story at my sister's wedding to show what a little kiss up she was to our dad, here's bit of it. My dad was driving my little sister and I to the swimming pool. She was probably 10 and I was 15 and I was always on his "pissed off list." So Everybody wants to rule the world comes on the radio and she knows I like the song but she says to my dad, "Dad, I don't want to rule the world." in one of her suck up voices. Then she ask me if I wanted to. Loaded question, so I say no knowing what's coming next. So of course my dad starts yelling that with my bad school grades, I'll be lucky that I'm not a G*d damn bum in the street...My sister used to do crap like that all of the time...I love her though but she could drive me crazy...Just like the night, in 84 when I'm headed to go see Purple Rain and she tells my dad that it's a "R" movie and I'm only 14. BAM! No Purple Rain for me and it was years till I actually saw it...Anyway, Tears 4 Fears still kicked butt...

Cinnie said:

Me too Cinnie, when i first heard it I played it in the club were I use to dj as a pace changer.

StarMon said:

I'd dance to it

wishuhvn said:

Cool story, siblings can be a pain at times, still the love we have for them conquers all.. I'm not that deep into the rest of their stuff outside of SFTBC, other than the single Sowing In The Seeds Of Love . I'll probably try to check out some of their other tunes, but SFTBC crossed my mind today and i just posted these songs because i think it's a good album from that era.

Cinnie said:

eeeeeyeah, I could probably shuffle my feet to it .

I use throw somthin' like that on to give the dancers a rest because the club was R&B and I use to have them on the floor with their tongues hanging down,You had to be in shape to party with me, I played some of everything that was deemed funky to me, I didn't go by a playlist or top forty, thirty, twenty, ten or whatever it was purely play what I felt, out of control "Funk-n-Roll".

I think this album marks the creative/commercial top and the start of the decline of the British Techno-Pop Era, Depeche Mode being the exception.