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samson • 22 • he/him • multifandom • mostly into tff now • sometimes inactive

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Musician, No 83, p. 86-88, 90 (09.1985)

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Something i started working on last summer, its still not done 😭 ((also I just changed my user from Backchatt if you're confused by the new one sorry🫩🫩))

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finally, ive scanned all the clippings i was planning on scanning for months now! i will crop and release them slowly over the next coming weeks ^_^ so be ready!

this was taken from a japanese magazine named 'Player' in October 1983, i have no other information about this, sadly, but i can provide a machine translation of the text in the image under, as well as a bonus scan of another band, Spear of Destiny, featured on the opposite side of the poster!

(hq downloads on my google drive here and here, credit if repost ~ thank you!)

"Hailing from Bath, a city famous for its Georgian architecture and hot springs, Tears for Fears consists of Curt Smith (bass guitar and vocals) and Roland Orzabal (guitar and vocals). The group's name comes from a book written by American Arthur Janof, which deals with the theme of children's nightmares (?).

Both are 21 years old and already have wives and children(??). Other musicians from Bath include Peter Gabriel and there are the Naked Eyes guys. This year, Naked Eyes joins the UK tour halfway through. These two also participated as session members.

The core of Tears for Fears' synthesizer sound is not a Japanese-made Roland (?), but a German-made PPG Wave, which they claim is the best synthesizer in the world: Curt Smith's hairstyle, especially the long, thin braids hanging down the back, was quite fashionable at the time. He says he got hooked on it after his wife did it to him while he was sleeping, and in his American accent (his wife is American), he calls it "braits hair." Incidentally, in the British Bath accent, it's called "platz hair." By the way, their song "Pale Shelter" is one of my top 5 songs of the first half of '83."

of course, would appreciate any better translations from someone whos familiar with the language!! there were some mistakes i had to fix and some things that didnt make sense (them having children during the hurting era???? what???) as well as the spelling for the braided hairstyles. did they mean 'plaited hair'?

back side of the paper, featuring Spear Of Destiny

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small collage of my tff dolls going on little adventures!

(it is so hard to hold them both in one hand, haha)

some others under the cut, i was in a very crowded space so i couldnt get them out of my display bag out of respect for the people around me!

one at the tallest building ever (couldnt get a better pic as i was on ample time) , and another at a small aquarium that was close by. yes, rolands tie was flipped upwards x3 i didnt notice in time to fix it, if i could!

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[acupofbritishearlgrey]

‘Good Rockin’ Tonite’, CBC, (29.03.1985)

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“Break The Man is about a strong woman, and breaking the patriarchy,” Curt Smith said of the song. “I feel that a lot of the problems we’ve been having as a country and even worldwide to a certain degree has come from male dominance. “It’s a song about a woman who is strong enough to break the man. For me, that would be an answer to a lot of the problems in the world – a better male-female balance.”

Tears For Fears — Break The Man (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 2022)

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Knebworth (30.06.1990), the original MTV Broadcast

I've never seen this bit before!

Also Curt appears during the ad break (20:21):

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The Batman (2022)

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'Naked Lunch' podcast (09.05.2024): H: I actually met Roland briefly when you were apart, like at some like album release party. CS: Right. H: And it's fascinating because I, again, knowing Hall & Oates, it's like the tensions that can exist make artists overlook the most obvious thing, which is from Lennon and McCartney, Bacharach/David, when there are people who, artists who, when they blend have something that neither can do on their own. CS: Without question. H: And literally vocally, like the insanity of the Tears for Fears was like... Roland is extremely talented. It's fascinating. And a lot of, I think, when I think of some of the torment of that is at the heart of some of the art, I think that's so much him. I will say that it is as a music critic, I'll put my music critic hat on. It's insane to think that you could, the two voices, literally the blending of the two voices like Lennon and McCartney. It's like you don't get 'A Day In the Life' if you don't have those two people, and you don't, like when... so he had one song during the time you were not in the group. He put out, I think two albums, studio albums. CS: Yeah. H: There's one I really liked called 'Break It Down Again'. CS: Which we play! H: I think you guys still do it. CS: And I, and I like that song too. H: But when I listened to it, because it's the only song without you I listened to when I was getting ready to come over here, I was thinking like, 'I like it because he recreated you'. CS: Me singing that one bit. H: Exactly! I said, 'Oh my God! There's that bit!' CS: Which live I sing! H: Yes, but it wasn't you. CS: No. H: And that must have been, I don't know if that's a little annoying... H2: They got a sound alike? H: Well... CS: No, he just impersonates my voice effectively, you know. Yeah, I mean, what's interesting when you're talking about, you know, things like duos like that and the friction is what creates it or, you know, when someone asked me to explain, you know, where does the Tears for Fears sound come from, it's the stuff we can agree on. That's it. It's as simple as that. If I hate it, we don't do it. If he hates it, we don't do it. If we can both agree on it, we'll do it. So it's the balance, it's that bit in the middle where we meet that creates something that we now, in our dotage, uh, we now appreciate. You know we, we appreciate it more now than we ever did growing up. H: So was it that rule that we've learned through other duos that... H2: We actually have... H: ...the most passionate wins. H2: ...either positively or negatively will win. CS: Wins. Yeah, generally that's true. Yeah. H: That's the only way to a true partnership right? CS: Yeah, um, yeah, I mean, as you get older, I think, it's more... You realise it's more compromise than anything, 'cause we're way past the sort of 'Who wants to be the alpha dog?' phase. We're way past that. We've now got to the phase, which I'm very grateful for, making 'The Tipping Point' album. And it really happened during this album, for the first time, I think, really, where we really had an appreciation of what we both bring to it. H: Yeah, CS: And appreciated each other. And, um, it's taken us till we're 60 years old to get there, but what the hey! H: Listen, as long as you end up there it really doesn't matter! CS: Yeah.

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(Wip) Dedicated to myself and the two other tears for fears fans that follow me 💀💀 (i do not condone their use of ai for the 2025(?) album cover, not only is that shit ugly, it has not an inkling of life but its ai so thats no surprise 💀)

also, thank u guys for all the love on my previous post, much appreciated 🫶🏽🫶🏽🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎

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'Xplora 1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World'

[DOS / MAC] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1995]

"The adventure game genre is often noted for how refined it is compared to other more philistine genres. XPLORA 1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World is an extreme example of this comparison. In 1993, interactive multimedia came into prominence, and the ever innovative Peter Gabriel decided to get involved and experiment with this medium. Collaborating with Brilliant Media under his own label Real World Records, the title was released for Macintosh in 1993, Windows in 1994, and CD-i in 1995. The avant-garde effort was well received by both fans and critics. Typical of Gabriel, the game is at times bizarre and feels like a purchase from a modern art museum store instead of a computer or record store. Rather than giving you a quest (or even a story), this is the kind of game meant to played with more than played (or explored, as the game itself calls it), which is a double-edged sword. Despite its age, the talent and care invested in its production is evident, and it looks younger than it is." ~Karen Niemla, Adventure Classic Gaming

Nowadays, this is the kind of game that will get you VOD-muted in a heartbeat...

Source: RetroMags; Areala

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The three of them. (didn't bother trying to draw whatever that creature is on security so just imagine theyre in the background glaring)

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GO, MY AQUARIUMS

These aren't mine

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my curt doll finally came home ~ im so happy aaaaa!!!

roland came earlier this month but they forgot to ship curt along with him :( but regardless!!! hes here now and hes all mine !!!! ehegehehe hes so soft !!! AND AND!!!! theyre both poseable!!!

other pics under the cut!

i tried making them hold hands lollll

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