Tears for FearsBest Tears for Fears Albums Ranked
8.4
Avg Score
49
Opinions
9
Albums
14
Reviewers
Summary from 49 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Tears for Fears's catalog across 9 albums from 49 opinions, with an overall average of 8.4/10. The top-rated Tears for Fears album is Songs from the Big Chair (1985) with a 8.5/10 average from 9 ratings, followed by The Tipping Point and The Hurting. The discography on Wavelength spans 1983 to 2024. Everybody Wants to Rule the World ranks as the highest-rated Tears for Fears song on Wavelength with a 9.2/10 average.
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Songs from the Big Chair
Shout
Songs from the Big Chair
Head Over Heels / Broken
Songs from the Big Chair
Mothers Talk
Songs from the Big Chair
Broken
Songs from the Big Chair
Pale Shelter (2nd Single Version)
The Hurting
Songs from the Big Chair
“Tears for Fears’ second album is the one sound of pop-rock in the ’80s. Its personal psychology, meticulous compositions, and world-sized choruses evoked the loss of control in an overwhelming era.”
The Tipping Point
“The legendary pop duo’s first new album in 18 years approaches the challenges of middle life with familiar sensitivity and shared intimacy. It’s a strikingly unguarded and forthright record.”
The Seeds Of Love
“A 4xCD/Blu-ray box set unpacks the bombast behind the UK band’s sprawling 1989 hybrid of soul and neo-psychedelia, recorded over four years and hundreds of hours of experimentation.”
The Hurting
“Britain’s Tears for Fears stand out among the current crop of identikit synth-pop groups by virtue of their resourceful, stylish songwriting and fetching rhythmic sway. Granted, the adolescent angst and bleak, pained romanticism of singer-instrumentalists Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal sometimes come off as an adequate imitation of Joy Division, at best. But for every […]”
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