{"id":41309,"date":"2009-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-seeds-of-love\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T00:00:00","slug":"the-seeds-of-love","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-seeds-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seeds Of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Seeds Of Love<\/i> was one of the most anticipated albums of 1989, maybe even of the decade. This came as no surprise seeing as 1985\u2019s gigantic Songs From The Big Chair <\/i>had turned Tears For Fears into one of the world\u2019s biggest and most important bands. It seemed the entire universe had been waiting for over three years to hear what Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith had been so diligently crafting in what would later be revealed as intensely organic live studio sessions. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

After three years, four producers, nine studios and over one million pounds, The Seeds Of Love <\/i>was released in August of 1989 and met with worldwide praise.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Although it\u2019s conceptually and aesthetically very different from the duo\u2019s first two albums, The Seeds Of Love<\/i> remains a favorite amongst fans and critics and the album contains the band\u2019s most sophisticated and refined work to date. The band\u2019s success with Songs From The Big Chair<\/i> had taken them on a unending tour of the United States and in 1986 Orzabal and Smith were feeling burnt out. It was during this U.S. tour that the duo would first see Oleta Adams perform at a hotel in Kansas City and her performance became the inspiration for the programming-free and live-band approach to the material on The Seeds Of Love<\/i>. Tears For Fears wanted to get back to basics and the end result is an album immersed in soul, jazz, blues and of course the band\u2019s signature pop.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Having been so moved and inspired by Oleta Adams, the duo would ask her to lend her phenomenal pipes and elaborate piano playing to album highlights \u201cWoman In Chains,\u201d \u201cBadman\u2019s Song,\u201d and \u201c Standing On The Corner Of The Third World.\u201d Similar to TFF\u2019s first two albums, there isn\u2019t a bad song here. Naturally the album\u2019s standout track is \u201cSowing The Seeds Of Love,\u201d an uplifting protest song, which Orzabal says he wrote in response to the re-election of Margaret Thatcher. The song is overwhelmingly intricate and somehow simultaneously infectious and catchy. \u201cSowing The Seeds Of Love\u201d would become one of the biggest hits of the 1980s, which was remarkable considering Tears For Fears had already produced \u201cEverybody Wants To Rule The World\u201d and \u201cShout\u201d; two of the biggest, most popular and most successful singles of all time.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The Seeds Of Love <\/i>saw the departure of Curt Smith from the group, who only co-wrote and performed on one of the album\u2019s tracks, \u201cSowing The Seeds Of Love,\u201d and so the album brings the most important Tears For Fears era to a close. Everything released thereafter would really just be Orzabal solo projects disguised as Tears For Fears albums. Although Songs From The Big Chair<\/i> is far and away their most important album, Tears For Fears proved with The Seeds Of Love<\/i> that they were pop visionaries that the world needed to take seriously. What a powerful way to close out the decade.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":29707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6318],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-41309","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-tears-for-fears","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41309"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}