Favorite "Talk" Songs #6 - "Mother's Talk"
@teamfreak16 (43650)
Denver, Colorado
July 9, 2017 3:18pm CST
In this particular music series, Favorite "Talk" Songs, I am simply counting down songs with "talk" (or a variation) in the title. We are at #6: "Mother's Talk" by Tears for Fears.
"Mother's Talk" was the first single from Tears for Fears' 1985 album, Songs from the Big Chair. Vocalist/co-writer Roland Orzabal claims the tune represents two ideas, one about the way mother's talk to their kids about making faces, and the other taken from the anti-nuclear comic book When the Wind Blows. The song is a bit more aggressive than what Tears for Fears had done on their first album (but the strings you hear at the beginning were sampled from a Barry Manilow record!)
The tune performed decently, reaching #14 in the UK, and a 1986 US remix reached #27 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Three different videos for the song were filmed. I've attached the second one, which was released in Europe.
Enjoy!
(Info verified by Wikipedia)
Check out the other 12 tears for Fears I have on here
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@teamfreak16 (43650)
• Denver, Colorado
9 Jul 17
I know. They are apparently still together, but they need to get to work. They haven't released a new album in 13 years.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
10 Jul 17
three videos for one song is quite unusual
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
10 Jul 17
@teamfreak16 interesting background
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@teamfreak16 (43650)
• Denver, Colorado
10 Jul 17
Apparently, the band rejected the first one. The American video showed a family moving into a fallout shelter.
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@FourWalls (86828)
• United States
10 Jul 17
The opening of this song almost sounds like a 70's cop show theme song, don't you think? It's good. Tears for Fears should be better known for more than "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"....but I say that a lot about bands, don't I....
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@teamfreak16 (43650)
• Denver, Colorado
10 Jul 17
Oh, you are absolutely right. "Mad World," "Pale Shelter," "The Start of the Breakdown." All better than that song.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
9 Jul 17
TFF! You are doing a roll call of 80s Hall of Famers!
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@teamfreak16 (43650)
• Denver, Colorado
9 Jul 17
They would be in just based on their first two albums alone.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
9 Jul 17
@teamfreak16 TFF was not as huge as say Duran Duran or Depeche but big time all through the decade.
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@teamfreak16 (43650)
• Denver, Colorado
9 Jul 17
@JohnRoberts - They didn't have the output of those bands, but what they did release was really good.
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@teamfreak16 (43650)
• Denver, Colorado
10 Jul 17
I can see that. Not your cup of tea, so to speak.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
9 Jul 17
Loved this Scott.
I loved Tears for Fears too.
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