And then we almost did the same thing with Mothers Talk, but the record company at that point said: ‘No.
“ The Way You Are didn’t do very well and that got us a little bit worried. “It was a stuttering beginning to the whole Big Chair thing,” he said. Writing in the liner notes to the B-sides and rarities compilation Saturnine Martial & Lunatic, Orzabal describes the song as, “the point we knew we had to change direction”, though they were unsure of which direction, feeling unsettled by the failure of the song. And I think it was listening to other people, and what we tend to do, and what we prefer to do, is just go away and make our own records.” For us personally, I don’t think it was anything we enjoyed. With that we definitely produced it, made it different, made it clever, and I think it was a failure. “We realised for us it’s the song first and then you produce it. It was just so fragmented to me and so not a song it’s just something created in the studio. The A&R guy behind us at the time thought it was the best thing we’d ever done. We were basically coerced by the record company to go in and do something to release quickly after The Hurting was successful and that’s what we came up with. “Definitely one of the worst recordings we’ve done. “ The Way You Are was the least favourite song of either of ours,” Curt Smith later told Consequence of Sound. Peaking at No.24, it was a commercial disappointment following the momentum they’d achieved from The Hurting – though the band themselves thought even that lowly chart position was better than it deserved, feeling angry that they had compromised themselves artistically to fulfil a commercial obligation. What are we going to do now?’ But, of course, we were successful, and the record company was pushing us to come up with another single.”īowing to record label pressure to “strike while the iron’s hot”, the band returned to the studio to work on new material, the result of which was standalone single The Way You Are. “When we finished that album, it was almost like, ‘Okay, well, we’ve kind of said our bit. “I suppose our whole thrust, musically and philosophically, as Tears for Fears came out in The Hurting,” Roland Orzabal told Las Vegas Weekly. H aving achieved a level of success which far exceeded everyone’s expectations with the synth-pop and psychoanalysis of 1983’s The Hurting notching up sales in excess of a million copies and scoring three Top 5 singles, pop’s patron saints of outsiders found themselves experiencing pressure of a different kind when it came to follow it up. After making major waves with their debut The Hurting in 1983, Tears For Fears returned with a new sound two years later with Songs From The Big Chair… Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair cover
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