Shout: The Very Best of Tears for Fears
provides an excellent overview of the band's key tracks, including all their hit singles, beginning with tracks from their first album,
The Hurting
, and ending with tracks from the post-
Curt Smith
album
Elemental
. (
, one-half the duo, left after 1989's
The Seeds of Love
).
Tears for Fears
already had one excellent hits package on the market, 1992's
Tears Roll Down
, but this set improves on that one by including all the tracks from that album, plus an additional five. Not only that, but the version of
"Mother's Talk"
on
was not the hit single remix -- the version here is. Also included is the non-album U.K. single
"The Way You Are,"
"Suffer the Children"
(from
),
"New Star"
from the film
Threesome
, and the follow-up to their final charted U.S. single,
"Break It Down Again"
and
"Goodnight Song,"
as well as a non-LP single remix of
"I Believe."
This album does not include any tracks from
Raoul and the Kings of Spain
, but clocking in at 79 minutes, it is filled to the brim with hits and stands as the definitive
collection, with excellent liner notes to boot. ~ Jose F. Promis