3 Original CDs
| 3 Original CDs | ||||
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| 📅 Released | 2003 | |||
| ⏳ Length | 3:25:19[1] | |||
| 🏷️ Label | Universal Music | |||
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3 Original CDs is a box set by the English rock band Tears for Fears.
Chronicles
| Chronicles | ||||
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| 📅 Released | June 21, 2005 | |||
| ⏳ Length | 3:25:19 | |||
| 🏷️ Label | Mercury Records • Chronicle Records • Universal Music Group | |||
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It was reissued as Chronicles in 2005.[2]
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
James Christopher Morgan, a music critic, states that it is a "significantly cheaper way to pick up each album" going on to state at the end of the review that "there are enough bonus studio and live tracks on the reissues to warrant a repurchase by longtime fans."[2]
Track listing
The Hurting
- The Hurting – 4:19
- Mad World – 3:35
- Pale Shelter – 4:34
- Ideas as Opiates – 3:45
- Memories Fade – 5;06
- Suffer the Children – 3:52
- Watch Me Bleed – 4:17
- Change – 4:14
- The Prisoner – 2:55
- Start of the Breakdown – 5:00
- Pale Shelter (Long Version) – 7:09
- The Way You Are (Extended) – 7:43
- Mad World (World Remix) – 3:43
- Change (Extended Version) – 6:00
Songs from the Big Chair
- Shout – 6:33
- The Working Hour – 6:31
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World – 4:11
- Mothers Talk – 5:06
- I Believe – 4:54
- Broken – 2:38
- Head over Heels/Broken (Live) – 5:02
- Listen – 6:54
- The Big Chair (7" Mix) – 3:21
- Empire Building (7" Mix) – 2:52
- The Marauders (7" Mix) – 4:16
- Broken Revisited (7" Mix) – 5:16
- The Conflict (7" Mix) – 4:05
- Mothers Talk (U.S. Remix) – 4:13
- Shout (U.S. Remix) – 8:02
The Seeds of Love
- Woman in Chains – 6:31
- Badman's Song – 8:32
- Sowing the Seeds of Love – 6:19
- Advice for the Young at Heart – 4:50
- Standing on the Corner of the Third World – 5:33
- Swords and Knives – 6:12
- Year of the Knife – 7:08
- Famous Last Words – 4:26
- Tears Roll Down – 3:16
- Always in the Past – 4:38
- Music for Tables – 3:32
- Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams – 4:17
Personnel
The Hurting
According to the liner notes:[3]
- Curt Smith – vocal, bass, keyboards
- Roland Orzabal – vocals, guitar, keyboards, rhythm programming
- Manny Elias – drumming, rhythm programming
- Ian Stanley – keyboards programming, computer programming
Also
- Chris Hughes – rhythm programming, tuned percussion, conducting
- Simon Collins – jazz high, dynamic toggle
- Mel Collins – saxophones
- Phil Palmer – Palmer picking
- Caroline Orzabal – child vocal on "Suffer the Children"
Songs from the Big Chair
According to the liner notes:[4]
- Curt Smith – bass guitar, vocals
- Roland Orzabal – guitar, keyboards, vocals
- Ian Stanley – keyboards
- Manny Elias – drums
Shout
- Sandy McLelland – backing vocals
- Chris Hughes – drums
The Working Hour
- Manny Elias – drums, drum arrangement
- Jerry Marotta – drums, saxophone arrangement
- William Gregory – saxophone solos
- Mel Collins – saxophone
- Andy Davis – grand piano
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
- Neil Taylor – 2nd guitar solo
Mothers Talk
- Sandy McLelland – backing vocals
- Andy Davis – grand piano
I Believe
- William Gregory – saxophone
- Roland Orzabal – grand piano
Head over Heels
- Andy Davis – grand piano
- Sandy McLelland – backing vocals
- Annie McCaig – backing vocals
- Marilyn Davis – backing vocals
Listen
- Marilyn David – backing vocals
- Roland Orzabal – vocal styling
The Seeds of Love
According to the liner notes:[5]
Tears for Fears
- Roland Orzabal – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitars, keyboards, Fairlight programming
- Curt Smith – bass guitar, backing vocals, co-lead vocals, lead vocals
- Ian Stanley – keyboards, Hammond organ
- Oleta Adams – keyboards, vocals, acoustic piano, backing vocals
- Nicky Holland – keyboards, backing vocals, acoustic piano, Kurzweil strings
- Simon Clark – keyboards, synthesizers, Hammond organ
- Neil Taylor – guitar arpeggio, rhythm guitar
- Robbie McIntosh – lead guitar, slide guitar
- Randy Jacobs – guitar
- Pino Palladino – bass
- Phil Collins – drums
- Manu Katché – drums
- Chris Hughes – drums, production
- Simon Phillips – drums
- Luís Jardim – percussion
- Carole Steele – percussion
- Richard Niles – orchestral arrangements
- Jon Hassell – trumpet
- Peter Hope-Evans – harmonica
- Kate St John – saxophone, oboe
- Tessa Niles – backing vocals, female vocal
- Carol Kenyon – backing vocals
- Maggie Ryder – backing vocals
- Dolette McDonald – backing vocals
References
- ↑ The Hurting/Seeds of Love/Songs from the Big Chair on AllMusic, retrieved 2024-12-30
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chronicles: The Hurting/Songs from the Big Chair/The Seeds of Love on AllMusic, retrieved 2024-12-30
- ↑ Cranna, Ian (1999). The Hurting (booklet). Mercury Records.
- ↑ Sinclair, Paul (1999). Songs from the Big Chair (booklet). Mercury Records.
- ↑ Smith, Richard (1999). The Seeds of Love (booklet). Mercury Records.
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