Tears For Fears – The Hurting

Tears For Fears

Tears For Fears –The Hurting

1983

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Version Information

Label
Universal Music Group
Catalog number
3743330
Original year
1983
Version year
2013
Region
Europe
Format

1 x Box Set
30th Anniversary Edition

1 x CD
Album
Reissue
Remastered

1 x CD
Compilation
Remastered

1 x CD
Remastered

1 x DVD
DVD-Video
NTSC

Version notes

Box set with 4 discs in individual card gatefold sleeves, interview booklet, and replica tour programme.

Released in Europe on 18-Oct-2013
Released in UK on 21-Oct-2013

Tracks CD3-1 to CD3-8 recorded at Maida Vale 4.

Track notes:
CD2-1: A-Side of IDEA 1
CD2-2: A-Side of IDEA 2 & The B-Side of IDEA 212. This is the original 1982 7" edit, not the longer 4:31 7" version from the 1985 re-issue
CD2-3: B-Side of "Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)" IDEA 2 & IDEA 212. This is the original 1982 version, not the slightly longer 2:50 version from the 1985 re-issue.
CD2-4: This track was meant to be the version from the B-Side of "Mad World". What is on the disc is the album version. The only difference between this and track CD1-4 is that you hear the track fade to the end without "Memories Fade" starting over the top of it.
CD2-5: B-Side of a 2nd pressing of the "Change" 12" IDEA 412. This pressing is hard to distinguish from the regular pressings that contain the 7" mix (A sticker on the front was the only way to tell). This track was also added to early cassette pressings of "The Hurting". A version of this mix with a later fade was available on the Canadian pressing of the "Change" 12" which is 5:15 in length.
CD2-6: A-Side of IDEA 12.
CD2-7: This is the original version from IDEA 212 except that it has a later fade out. The version on the original 12" was only 6:32 in length.
CD2-8: This is the version from the 1999 remaster CD of "The Hurting". The fade on the original vinyl single (IDEA 33) is a few seconds earlier.
CD2-9: This is the version from the 1999 remaster CD of "The Hurting". The version on the original 12" (IDEA 412) fades out as opposed to the cold ending version here.
CD2-10: This is the version from the 1999 remaster CD of "The Hurting" titled "Long Version". The version from the original 12" (IDEA 512) is only 6:51 and fades out as opposed to having the cold ending.
CD2-11: B-Side of "Suffer The Children" IDEA 12.
CD2-12: A-Side of IDEA 4.
CD2-13: B-Side of "Suffer The Children" IDEA 1 & IDEA 12.
CD2-14: B-Side of "Change" IDEA 4 & IDEA 412.
CD2-15: This track was meant to be the version from the B-Side of "Pale Shelter" (IDEA 5) which is 4:07 in length. What is actually on the disc is "Broken Revisited" which was first released on limited cassette pressings of "Songs From The Big Chair". It has also been available on the 1999 and 2006 remasters of the CD.
CD2-16: This is the original single version except that the intro is longer. The first and only other appearance of this mix was on a 1999 sampler CD titled "Five Tracks From The Hurting" TFFCD 83 (the track fades slightly later on the sampler CD).

CD3-9: Recorded live Oxford Apollo 08.04.1983. Originally released on the 12" (IDEA 612) & Ltd Double 7" (IDEAS 6) pressings of "The Way You Are" single. On the original 7" you hear Curt & Roland saying goodnight before the crowd noise fades which you don't get on this CD version.
CD3-10: Recorded live Oxford Apollo 08.04.1983. Originally released on the Ltd Double 7" (IDEAS 6) pressing of "The Way You Are" single. The version on the original 7" does not contain the spoken intro by Curt and the crowd noise fades quicker at the end.

This compilation
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© 2013 Mercury Records Limited

Tracklist

Original Album

CD1-1.The Hurting 4:20
CD1-2.Mad World 3:36
CD1-3.Pale Shelter 4:34
CD1-4.Ideas As Opiates 3:46
CD1-5.Memories Fade 5:05
CD1-6.Suffer The Children 3:53
CD1-7.Watch Me Bleed 4:18
CD1-8.Change 4:15
CD1-9.The Prisoner 2:56
CD1-10.Start Of The Breakdown 4:58

B-Sides And Remixes

CD2-1.Suffer The Children (Single Version) 3:44
CD2-2.Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love) (Single Version) 4:04
CD2-3.The Prisoner (Single Version) 2:45
CD2-4.Ideas As Opiates (Alternate Version) 3:57
CD2-5.Change (New Version) 4:40
CD2-6.Suffer The Children (Remix) 4:21
CD2-7.Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love) (Extended Version) 7:07
CD2-8.Mad World (World Remix) 3:43
CD2-9.Change (Extended Version) 6:01
CD2-10.Pale Shelter (New Extended Version) 7:09
CD2-11.Suffer The Children (Instrumental) 4:27
CD2-12.Change (Single Version) 3:57
CD2-13.Wino 2:26
CD2-14.The Conflict 4:04
CD2-15.Broken Revisited 5:17
CD2-16.Suffer The Children (Demo - Promo CD Version) 3:59

Live Sessions

Peel Session 01.09.1982

CD3-1.Ideas As Opiates 3:52
CD3-2.Suffer The Children 4:04
CD3-3.The Prisoner 2:53
CD3-4.The Hurting 3:49

David Jensen BBC Session 20.10.1982

CD3-5.Memories Fade 4:54
CD3-6.The Prisoner 2:47
CD3-7.Start Of The Breakdown 3:59
CD3-8.The Hurting 3:50

Live At The Oxford Apollo / April 8th 1983

CD3-9.Start Of The Breakdown 5:55
CD3-10.Change 4:58

In My Mind's Eye - Live At Hammersmith Odeon

DVD-1.Start Of The Breakdown 6:14
DVD-2.Mothers Talk 3:50
DVD-3.Pale Shelter 4:35
DVD-4.The Working Hour 6:29
DVD-5.The Prisoner 2:52
DVD-6.Ideas As Opiates 3:43
DVD-7.Mad World 3:36
DVD-8.We Are Broken 2:57
DVD-9.Head Over Heels 4:49
DVD-10.Suffer The Children 4:02
DVD-11.The Hurting 4:24
DVD-12.Memories Fade 4:51
DVD-13.Change 4:10

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