History Music / TearsForFears

* 2004 - ''Everybody Loves a Happy Ending''

* 1995 - ''Raoul and the Kings of Spain'' [[note]]another album recorded without Smith[[/note]]

* 1993 - ''Music/{{Elemental}}'' [[note]]album recorded without Smith[[/note]]

* 1993 - ''Elemental'' [[note]]album recorded without Smith[[/note]]

* HollywoodNerd: In the "Head over Heels" music video, NerdGlasses were put on Curt Smith and Canadian model Joan Densmore in an attempt to make them appear as a dorky library custodian and a nerdy librarian, respectively. However, Smith's [[PrettyBoy prettiness]] is still very apparent (in fact, he liked the look enough that he kept the fake glasses on during a Creator/{{CBC}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hVA807yy0U&t=3m38s interview]]), and Densmore's character is a HotLibrarian.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: On some of their albums. See the description for ''The Seeds of Love'' in NewSoundAlbum below for one example.

** TFF collaborator Michael Wainwright admitted in a [[https://twitter.com/wainwrightweets/status/1323089487413551105 tweet]] that Smith was hot, hot enough that Wainwright initially believed that he must have been staring at a photo of a hot ''[[DudeLooksLikeALady woman]]''. He obviously wasn't aware that Smith was a RareMaleExample of ShesGotLegs who sometimes wore [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]].

** As you can see in [[https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49413854928_4dddf9760a_o.jpg this magazine's picture,]] Smith has [[ShesGotLegs shapely legs]] [[GenderInvertedTrope for a man]], and his [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/c1f146aa18dbadc62da4f4cb88b7ec10/tumblr_mpsoveKtTQ1sr0850o1_1280.jpg shorts]] were on the [[https://i.imgur.com/dw8OeLi.jpg shorter]] [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/85/11/8a/85118a17463a93cd6f0146742800f59b.jpg side]] to [[WhoWearsShortShorts show them off]]. Even Orzabal confessed that he [[EatingTheEyeCandy enjoyed]] [[EvenTheGuysWantHim watching]] "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t50wSqF09A&t=5m11s Curt jogging every morning with his hairy legs and shorts, all smiley and handsome.]]"

* WhoWearsShortShorts: In a RareMaleExample, there are promotional images of Curt Smith [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/c1f146aa18dbadc62da4f4cb88b7ec10/tumblr_mpsoveKtTQ1sr0850o1_1280.jpg wearing]] [[https://i.imgur.com/dw8OeLi.jpg short]] [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/85/11/8a/85118a17463a93cd6f0146742800f59b.jpg shorts.]]

* LastOfHisKind: Roland Orzabal, for whatever reason, wanted to keep the band alive so much that, during the 1990s, almost all of his "solo" work [[IAmTheBand would be released under the band's name]] (although this has frequently been overstated; see IAmTheBand above). ''Tomcats Screaming Outside'', which he made in 2001, was his only album that he released under his name (perhaps because it's SomethingCompletelyDifferent: it's a DrumAndBass album).

* MisogynySong: Inverted with "Woman in Chains", which is overtly feminist (although it is a song ''about'' misogyny).

The TitleTrack for ''The Tipping Point'' eventually saw release as a single on October 7, 2021, with the album set for release on February 25, 2022.

* 2022 - ''The Tipping Point'' (upcoming)

* AnimatedMusicVideo: Both versions of "Tears Roll Down" received ones, based around abstract {{Mayincatec}} and African imagery. The "Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)" video in fact reuses brief snippets of footage from "Tears Roll Down" and intersperses it with both new animations and rotoscoped footage of Roland Orzabal.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The "No Small Thing" music video consists entirely of black-and-white found footage.

** Music/PhilCollins plays the drums on "Woman in Chains" starting from 3:32. (The earlier parts are performed by French jazz drummer Manu Katché, a well-known session musician in his own right.)

* FingerlessGloves:
** In the "Mad World" music video, Orzabal sports a green pair while he's dancing by the dockside as seen through the window Smith is leaning against.
** In "The Way You Are" music video, the woman has a red pair while taking photographs at a factory.

* 1991 - "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" [[note]]A remix of a B-side for "Advice for the Young at Heart", released as a non-album single. The band's last release before Curt Smith's departure that year.[[/note]]

** From ''Saturnine Martial & Lunatic'', "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" is 6:21, and "Déjà Vu & the Sins of Science" is 6:24.

** ''Saturnine Martial & Lunatic'': Orzabal's only solo songwriting credit on the entire collection is the first song, "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams". (From this we can also extrapolate that he probably wrote the main chord sequence to "Shout" and the lyrics to the verses of "Sowing the Seeds of Love" by himself, since this song incorporates both.)

** "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" is essentially the lyrics of "Sowing the Seeds of Love" rapped over the chord pattern of "Shout" in a trip-hop style with "a Music/TalkingHeads-style chorus".

** ''Secret World Live in Paris''
** ''Live at Massey Hall'' was a 2021 Record Store Day exclusive.

** "Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)" is the only track on ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)]]'' that wasn't carried over to its successor compilation ''Rule the World: The Greatest Hits'', owed in part to the fact that it was a very blatant diss track against Curt Smith that was rendered moot by his return to the band in 2001 (although it ''did'' resurface on 2001's ''Shout: The Very Best of Tears for Fears'' and 2006's ''Tears for Fears -- Gold''). Because of this, it's also their only single not available on streaming services.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iemvnxDjrBY No Small Thing]]" music video consists entirely of black-and-white found footage.

** They vetoed the inclusion of the B-side "Saxophones as Opiates" from the reissue of ''The Hurting'', just because they thought it was cheesy. They did include the B-side "Wino" which had never been on CD before, although a large part of the reason was that the record company forgot about the "Suffer the Children" single.
** "Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)" is the only track on ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)]]'' that wasn't carried over to its successor compilation ''Rule the World: The Greatest Hits'', owed in part to the fact that it was a very blatant diss track against Curt Smith that was rendered moot by his return to the band in 2000 (though it ''did'' resurface on 2001's ''Shout: The Very Best of Tears for Fears'', its only return appearance after its original 1992 release). Because of this, it's also their only single not available on streaming services.

** Roland Orzabal seems to have a man crush on his best friend based on comments like "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t50wSqF09A&t=5m11s I just wanted to see Curt jogging every morning with his hairy legs and shorts,]] all smiley and [[EatingTheEyeCandy handsome]]" (another guest on the talk show was so stunned that a supposedly straight guy would ogle at his male buddy that he asked the band if they were gay). Orzabal also affirms that he thought Smith was especially good-looking in the ''Classic Albums - Tears for Fears: Songs from the Big Chair'' documentary.

* PrettyBoy: In their early years, Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal were marketed as a boy band in various magazines (the latter [[https://thequietus.com/articles/13379-tears-for-fears-the-hurting-interview notes,]] "if you're signed to a major label, two young pretty boys, they're going to push you into doing the poster pop"), and they were frequently photographed in typical '80s [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3d/ca/62/3dca62ffa657a43a1b97287070ca06f5.jpg boy band poses.]] Smith in particular fit the "boy band ideal" of that era (androgyny was trendy at the time) because he was a LongHairedPrettyBoy with cherubic facial features who could appear [[https://live.staticflickr.com/1837/30164068048_9361710438_o.jpg quite feminine,]] and his popularity as a pop star pin-up is demonstrated by the fact that he was once ranked as the [[https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51107740705_5a923e4959_o.jpg #7 Most Fanciable Male Human Being.]] In BBC's ''Classic Albums - Tears for Fears: Songs from the Big Chair'' documentary, Orzabal acknowledges that their physical beauty was part of their mass appeal.

* AbsenteeActor: Besides a brief shot of a framed photo of the band, Orzabal and Smith are completely absent from the "I Love You But I'm Lost" music video.

** "Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)" is the only track on ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)]]'' that wasn't carried over to its successor compilation ''Rule the World: The Greatest Hits'', owed in part to the fact that it was a very blatant diss track against Curt Smith that was rendered moot by his return to the band in 2000 (though it ''did'' resurface on 2001's ''Shout: The Very Best of Tears for Fears'', its only return appearance after its original 1992 release).

* 1991 - "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" [[note]]A remix of a B-side for "Advice for the Young At Heart", released as a non-album single. The band's last release before Curt Smith's departure that year.[[/note]]