Not "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"

Author: MurphyPublished: Feb 21, 2003 at 12:46 pm 5 comments

Got to do a bunch of boring documentation here at work. I brought a bunch of CDs to combat the boredom.

I found my old Tears for Fears CD. NO, not Shout. Everyone knows that album.

I'm listening to Elemental. My favorite song is "Break it Down."
The Moses on a motorbike song. I really like it! I don't think it gets the credit it deserves.

"Shout" and "Everybody wants to rule the world" seem to be the songs by Tears for Fears that people remember. I don't really understand the appeal of "Everybody", but "Shout" is awesome.

Anyway, if you haven't heard this album, it's good.

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Murphy Daley is a long-time BlogCritic. Murphy’s first book The Parable of Miriam the Camel Driver draws from her experience in corporate America to examine the bigger questions about balancing career and creativity. …

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  • 1 - Zaldor

    Feb 21, 2003 at 1:06 pm

    Hmmm.. I've got 'Elemental' too - I'll have to dig it up again and give it a new listen. Always liked TfF... :)

  • 2 - Tom

    Feb 23, 2003 at 11:23 am

    Elemental is one of those albums that I simply cannot seem to live without. It got ripped to shreds by critics when it came out, but it has consistently been the one TfF album that I turn to immediately when I want to hear That Voice.

    I will say, however, nothing on Elemental quite lives up to "Woman In Chains" from The Seeds Of Love. Man, is that a good song.

  • 3 - Scott

    Jul 26, 2005 at 5:57 pm

    Totally agree. One of my local radio stations has been playing the song lately, heard it twice in the last week when I was driving my daughter to school. We both greatly enjoyed rocking out to it. I knew it was Tears for Fears but I couldn't remember the name. So I goggled moses on a motorbike and wound up here.

    So hi!

  • 4 - Eric Olsen

    Jul 26, 2005 at 6:23 pm

    wherefore art thou Murphy?

  • 5 - Murphy

    Jul 30, 2005 at 11:30 pm

    But soft--
    What light through yonder browser breaks?

    It is the west! And Murphy is the sun!

    ---Still here Eric!

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