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The Hurting is the debut studio album by the British rock/pop band Tears for Fears. It was released on 7 March 1983, and peaked at No. 1 on the UK Album Chart in its second week of release. The album was certified Gold by the BPI within three weeks of release, and reached Platinum status in January 1985.

The album contains Tears For Fears' first three hit singles – "Mad World", "Change", and "Pale Shelter" – all of which reached the Top 5 in the UK. It also contains a new version of the band's first single, "Suffer The Children", which had originally been released in 1981.

The album was remastered and reissued in 1999, and included four remixes as bonus tracks and an extensive booklet with liner notes about the album's creation. A 30th Anniversary reissue was released on 21 October 2013, in both double-CD and deluxe 4-disc boxed set editions.

Track listing

Original release

All tracks are written by Roland Orzabal, except "The Way You Are" written by Orzabal, Curt Smith, Ian Stanley, and Manny Elias

No.TitleLength
1."The Hurting"4:20
2."Mad World"3:35
3."Pale Shelter"4:34
4."Ideas as Opiates"3:46
5."Memories Fade"5:08
6."Suffer the Children"3:53
7."Watch Me Bleed"4:18
8."Change"4:15
9."The Prisoner"2:55
10."Start of the Breakdown"5:00
11."Change" (New Version†)4:36

Note

  • † Cassette only bonus track
1999 remastered and expanded
No.TitleLength
11."Pale Shelter (Long Version)†"7:09
12."The Way You Are (Extended)††"7:43
13."Mad World (World Remix)"3:42
14."Change (Extended Version)"6:00

Notes

  • † – The 1999 remastered version of the album incorrectly credits Curt Smith as co-writer and Mike Howlett as producer of "Pale Shelter" (Long Version). As confirmed on the original releases, Smith did not write any of the tracks for The Hurting and this version of "Pale Shelter" is actually the 1983 12" extended version of the song, which was produced by Chris Hughes and Ross Cullum. Howlett produced the original 1982 version.
  • †† – "The Way You Are" was originally a non-album track, though the 12" version was included on the remastered version of The Hurting in 1999.

2013 30th anniversary editions

Two deluxe editions of the album were released on 21 October 2013. One is a double CD comprising CDs 1 & 2 (as below), and the other is a 4-disc boxed set comprising CDs 1–3 and a DVD (as below), a book containing interviews, a new essay from Paul Sinclair about the album, a replica of a 1983 tour programme, a discography and photos. The first 500 pre-orders from the Universal Music online store also included a vinyl 7" single of "Change" in a rare earlier picture sleeve.

Disc one – Original Album
No.TitleLength
1."The Hurting"4:16
2."Mad World"3:35
3."Pale Shelter (1983 Single Version)"4:24
4."Ideas as Opiates"3:46
5."Memories Fade"5:01
6."Suffer the Children"3:49
7."Watch Me Bleed"4:15
8."Change"4:13
9."The Prisoner"2:55
10."Start of the Breakdown"4:57
Disc two – Singles & B-Sides
No.TitleLength
1."Suffer the Children (Original Version)"3:40
2."Pale Shelter (Original Version)"4:39
3."The Prisoner (Original 7" Version)"2:43
4."Ideas as Opiates (Alternate Version)†"3:53
5."Change (New Version)"4:36
6."Suffer the Children (Remix)"4:15
7."Pale Shelter (Long Version)"7:09
8."Mad World (World Remix)"3:39
9."Change (Extended Version)"5:59
10."Pale Shelter (New Extended Version)"6:44
11."Suffer the Children (Instrumental)"4:26
12."Change (Radio Edit)"3:58
13."Wino"2:23
14."The Conflict"4:02
15."We Are Broken††"4:03
16."Suffer the Children (Demo)"4:04

Notes

  • † – Track 4, labeled as "Ideas As Opiates (Alternate Version)", was intended to be the first version of the song (originally released as the B-Side to "Mad World") but was mistakenly replaced by a previously unreleased version of the album track.[7]
  • †† – Track 15, although labeled as "We Are Broken", is actually "Broken Revisited" which is a slightly extended version of the original track and was first included as a bonus track on the limited edition cassette of Songs from the Big Chair in 1985 and later included on the 1999 remastered edition and 2006 deluxe edition of the same album.
Disc three – Radio Sessions & Live
No.TitleLength
1."Ideas as Opiates (Peel Session 1/9/1982)"3:48
2."Suffer the Children (Peel Session 1/9/1982)"4:03
3."The Prisoner (Peel Session 1/9/1982)"2:50
4."The Hurting (Peel Session 1/9/1982)"3:45
5."Memories Fade (David Jensen BBC Session 20/10/1982)"4:56
6."The Prisoner (David Jensen BBC Session 20/10/1982)"2:49
7."Start of the Breakdown (David Jensen BBC Session 20/10/1982)"4:00
8."The Hurting (David Jensen BBC Session 20/10/1982)"3:50
9."Start of the Breakdown (Live at Oxford Apollo 8/4/1983)"5:56
10."Change (Live)"4:00
DVD – In My Mind’s Eye: Live At Hammersmith Odeon (December 1983)
No.TitleLength
1."Start of the Breakdown"6:14
2."Mothers Talk"3:50
3."Pale Shelter"4:35
4."The Working Hour"6:29
5."The Prisoner"2:52
6."Ideas as Opiates"3:43
7."Mad World"3:36
8."We Are Broken"2:57
9."Head over Heels"4:49
10."Suffer the Children"4:02
11."The Hurting"4:24
12."Memories Fade"4:51
13."Change"4:10

Personnel

Tears For Fears

Additional personnel

Charts

Album

Chart (1983) Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[8] 15
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[9] 7
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[10] 30
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[11] 15
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[12] 16
UK Albums (OCC)[13] 1
US Billboard 200[14] 73

30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Chart (2013) Position
UK 85

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1982 "Mad World" UK Singles Chart 3
1983 "Change" UK Singles Chart 4
US Billboard Mainstream Rock 22
US Billboard Pop Singles 73
"Pale Shelter" UK Singles Chart 5

Certifications

Organization Level Date
BPI (UK)[15] Silver 9 March 1983
Gold 25 March 1983
Platinum 29 January 1985
RIAA (USA) Gold 1 December 1993

References

  1. ^ Eder, Bruce. "The Hurting – Tears for Fears". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 June 2009.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
  3. ^ Collins, Andrew (July 1999). "Tears for Fears: The Hurting". Q (154). London: 129.
  4. ^ Byford, Tom (December 2013). "Tears For Fears – The Hurting". Record Collector (421). London. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  5. ^ Fricke, David (7 July 1983). "Tears for Fears: The Hurting". Rolling Stone. New York. Archived from the original on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2009. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ Dellar, Fred (17 March 1983). "Tears for Fears: The Hurting". Smash Hits. 5 (6). London: 30.
  7. ^ https://www.discogs.com/Tears-For-Fears-The-Hurting/release/5014648
  8. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St. Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 306. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  9. ^ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 6256a". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  10. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Tears for Fears – The Hurting" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  11. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Tears for Fears – The Hurting" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  12. ^ "Charts.nz – Tears for Fears – The Hurting". Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  13. ^ "Tears for Fears | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  14. ^ "Tears for Fears Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  15. ^ BPI Certifications Database
Preceded by UK Albums Chart number one album
26 March 1983 – 1 April 1983 		Succeeded by
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