![]() " Mothers Talk" was released months before the album as a single. Early songs written for the album included " Head over Heels" and "The Working Hour". Conceptually and musically, it further developed the band's sound from the previous studio album The Hurting (1983), reintroducing guitars to their electronic sound and imparting a lighter approach overall. The album was recorded at The Wool Hall in 1984. ![]() While a mostly instrumental track called "The Big Chair" (which includes dialogue samples from Sybil) was released as the B-side of "Shout" in 1984, it was not included on the album (but was available on its "special limited edition" cassette version, released in the UK in 1985). The first song written for the album was "Head over Heels", which the band played live during a tour undertaken between the two studio albums. The band started to generate new material around the beginning of 1984. We found the need to be more outgoing on The Big Chair." In an interview for the 2006 deluxe-version booklet, Curt Smith noted: "We were very introverted on The Hurting it was a very dark album. The album was to be titled The Working Hour, but Roland Orzabal fought to change it to Songs from the Big Chair, a title derived from the 1976 American television film Sybil about a woman with multiple personality disorder who only feels safe when sitting in her analyst's "big chair." The title reflects the band's opinion that they were the targets of a hostile British music press. ![]() Songs from the Big Chair spawned the commercially successful singles " Mothers Talk", " Shout", " Everybody Wants to Rule the World", " Head over Heels" and " I Believe". The album peaked at number two in the UK and at number one in the U.S., becoming a multi-platinum seller and the band's most successful studio album to date. ![]() Songs from the Big Chair is the second studio album by English pop rock band Tears for Fears, released on 25 February 1985 by Phonogram Records.
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