Show 109 - Tears For Fears

[Rick and Roll]

Since I already alluded to the show in another thread, I'll just post the show theme now and do the song list later.

This week is a theme I love to do - bands that are too intelligent for mainstream pop yet not quite prog enough for regular airplay here.

I'll play 3-6 songs from The Hurting, The Seeds of Love, Elemental, Raoul and the Kings of Spain, and Everybody loves A Happy Ending.

I'll close the show with all of Songs From the Big Chair.

Next week is Yes, and then a break from full three-hour artist spotlights. Let's get some contrast within shows...

set list later!

[roger]

love TFF. how about an XTC show?

[VERNIXX]

I agree!

Then maybe some Shriekback!

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by roger

love TFF. how about an XTC show?

As usual, the (relative) clean air of Vermont has heightened your intuitive senses. XTC is the perfect Tweener. I wonder how many of their songs have hit 6 minutes long....

That is an ever-present show idea since last year, and I did play all of Oranges and Lemons here once. I think what has held me back is that I only have the later CD's. My early XTC is missing or on vinyl. I wanted to do their material justice.

Andy Partidge has been doing a myspace blog weekly, parsing one song a week. It's great stuff. Add them if you can Roger, and read his stuff, it's great.

I just read his verbose Amazon interview, and am considering the nine (!) disc box set of demos he has out.

What a talent!

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by VERNIXX

I agree!

Then maybe some Shriekback!

what's that?

[teermin8r]

http://www.shriekback.com/
http://www.shriekback.com/site.htm

DEZerov turned me onto them.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Since I already alluded to the show in another thread, I'll just post the show theme now and do the song list later.

This week is a theme I love to do - bands that are too intelligent for mainstream pop yet not quite prog enough for regular airplay here.

I'll play 3-6 songs from The Hurting, The Seeds of Love, Elemental, Raoul and the Kings of Spain, and Everybody loves A Happy Ending.

I love The Hurting. The college radio was playing it when I was working on my graduate degree. At least this album has a theme. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_therapy

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

I'll close the show with all of Songs From the Big Chair.

You should have picked a few from SftBC and all of The Hurting. At least have the common decency to censor Shout and Everybody Wants To Rule The World.

[RogorMortis]

Rick you lovely little boy - Great with Tears - as you will see I have them all. But I will agree with Vax about selection.

Rick look at my list as I do have a selection of XTC which I will with pleasure will send by unknown courier for your show.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by teermin8r

http://www.shriekback.com/
http://www.shriekback.com/site.htm

DEZerov turned me onto them.

Good...I was beginning to think it was an Oklahoma thing

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by RogorMortis

Rick you lovely little boy - Great with Tears - as you will see I have them all. But I will agree with Vax about selection.

Rick look at my list as I do have a selection of XTC which I will with pleasure will send by unknown courier for your show.

Yes I do remember the hurting is a vax favorite...as Jim likes Elemental (I like that one and Seeds the best).

I am doing 7 of the 10 from Hurting...so that's a good %. I found it to be less proggy than the others.

I'd cut "Head Over Heels" before the other two. But you know it's only a few songs...and hey who has common decency anymore?

Great idea about the XTC Rogor...I'll keep that in mind. I have Big Express and then everything Skylarking through the Apple Venus CD's...

[VERNIXX]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Good...I was beginning to think it was an Oklahoma thing

Shreikback actually had some proggy as well as psychedelic moments later in their career.

[Rick and Roll]

Set list:

from The Hurting, 1983 -

The Hurting
Mad World
Pale Shelter
Memories fade
Change
The Prisoner
Start of the Breakdown

from the Seeds of Love, 1989 -

Woman In Chains
Badman's Song
Sowing the Seeds of Love
Advice For the Young At Heart
Swords and Knives

from Elemental, 1993 -

Elemental
Break It Down Again
Mr. Pessimist
Fish Out of Water
Gas Giants
Brian Wilson Said

From Raoul and the Kings of Spain, 1995 -

From Raoul and the Kings of Spain
Falling Down
Sketches of Pain
Sorry
Humdrum and Humble

From Everybody Loves A Happy Ending, 2004 -

Everybody Loves A Happy Ending
Secret World
Ladybird

Songs From the Big Chair, 1985 -

Shout
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Mothers Talk
I Believe
Broken
Head Over Heels
Listen

Glad to see you didn't cut Head over Heels as it's my favourite song from the album.

I remember that at the time of the original Live Aid gig, some of us in London, including me, did a 10km rum for charity. The theme song for that event was "Everybody wants to RUN the world" a remix of the song from SFtBC. It was a fantastic day out and raised a lot of money for the charity.

And yes I did finish the course.

Looks like it's going to be a great show Rick.

[roger]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

As usual, the (relative) clean air of Vermont has heightened your intuitive senses. XTC is the perfect Tweener. I wonder how many of their songs have hit 6 minutes long....

That is an ever-present show idea since last year, and I did play all of Oranges and Lemons here once. I think what has held me back is that I only have the later CD's. My early XTC is missing or on vinyl. I wanted to do their material justice.

Andy Partidge has been doing a myspace blog weekly, parsing one song a week. It's great stuff. Add them if you can Roger, and read his stuff, it's great.

I just read his verbose Amazon interview, and am considering the nine (!) disc box set of demos he has out.

What a talent!

you got a link to Andy's myspace?

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Set list:

from The Hurting, 1983 -

The Hurting
Mad World

I love this song...

Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Pale Shelter
Memories fade
Change
The Prisoner
Start of the Breakdown

No Ideas as Opiates? Pivotal in the theme...

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

from the Seeds of Love, 1989 -

Woman In Chains

Great tune!

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Badman's Song
Sowing the Seeds of Love
Advice For the Young At Heart
Swords and Knives

from Elemental, 1993 -

Elemental
Break It Down Again
Mr. Pessimist
Fish Out of Water
Gas Giants
Brian Wilson Said

From Raoul and the Kings of Spain, 1995 -

From Raoul and the Kings of Spain
Falling Down
Sketches of Pain
Sorry
Humdrum and Humble

From Everybody Loves A Happy Ending, 2004 -

Everybody Loves A Happy Ending
Secret World
Ladybird

Songs From the Big Chair, 1985 -

Shout
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Mothers Talk
I Believe
Broken
Head Over Heels
Listen

My daughter was Head Over Heels for TfF. We took her at about 3 yrs of age to a TfF gig at the Garden State Arts Center. They saw her in the audience (we were 2nd or 3rd row) and invited her up on the stage.
The guys in the monkey suits were a bit odd and over the top though.

[podakayne]

lovin the show rick...and i dont care what any one thinks ...i love Everybody Wants To Rule The World! ...long version!

good going lovin it all
thanks
poda

[VERNIXX]

Yeah...great show, rickster.

Looking forward to the YES.

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Funny, I was also going to mention "Ideas As Opiates" - great (though bizzare-ish) tune. "Head Over Heels" is probably my favorite from "Big Chair". "Shout" was probably their worst song ever, and overplayed to boot. But I'm certainly OK with differing opinions. I would have changed some selections from "Elemental", but there's not enough memory on the AM server to explain the sentimental meaning that album has for me. But any chance of including "Power"?

And there's a few on "Saturnine and Martial Lunatic" (the outtakes album) that could have been included, but now we're splitting hairs.

I have many, though not all of XTC's older albums. Ask if you want some mp3's for a show...

I for one of many am looking forward to TFF...

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by progdirjim

Funny, I was also going to mention "Ideas As Opiates" - great (though bizzare-ish) tune. "Head Over Heels" is probably my favorite from "Big Chair". "Shout" was probably their worst song ever, and overplayed to boot. But I'm certainly OK with differing opinions. I would have changed some selections from "Elemental", but there's not enough memory on the AM server to explain the sentimental meaning that album has for me. But any chance of including "Power"?

And there's a few on "Saturnine and Martial Lunatic" (the outtakes album) that could have been included, but now we're splitting hairs.

I have many, though not all of XTC's older albums. Ask if you want some mp3's for a show...

I for one of many am looking forward to TFF...

Sounds like a good story over some wine sometime...

Maybe we can do a show in February on XTC, sounds good...