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Gold (Tears for Fears album)

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Gold
Greatest hits album by
Released8 August 2006 (2006-08-08)
Genre
Length1:53:01
LabelHip-O/Mercury[1]
Producer
  • Alan Griffiths
  • Chris Hughes
Tears for Fears chronology
Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
(2004)
Gold
(2006)
The Collection
(2006)

Gold is a greatest hits album by the English rock band Tears for Fears. It was released by Hip-O Records/Mercury Records on 8 August 2006.[2] It covers releases by the band between 1983 and 2005.

Reception

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James Christopher Monger at AllMusic states "Gold successfully brings their whole surprisingly weighty career into focus" and "With the exception of the impossibly fun -- and more than a little "Beatlesque" -- title cut, all of the album's best songs are featured, making this compilation essential for anybody who wonders what happened after 1990."[3]

Popmatters' Mike Schiller says "this unimaginatively assembled, yet adequately comprehensive, two disc compilation becomes the best summary of the band’s career yet released." He also comments that "offerings from The Hurting, Songs From the Big Chair, and The Seeds of Love comprising the first disc, and Elemental, Raoul and the Kings of Spain (both basically solo discs for lead vocalist Roland Orzabal), and 2004 reunion disc Everybody Loves a Happy Ending making up the second."[4]

Mike Duqette at The Second Disc states "this generic compilation is the most comprehensive, covering even the Raoul album, and has a few bonus cuts (the hard-to-find "Floating Down the River" and a new live version of "Mad World"). He goes on to comment that this album was "originally intended to be a career-spanning box, including a bunch of rarities that had missed inclusion on the previous remasters. The usual record company shuffling of feet ensued, and this set was quietly dumped into stores."[5]

Track listing

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Disc two
No.TitleLength
1."Elemental"3:49
2."Cold"5:04
3."Break It Down Again"4:31
4."New Star"4:26
5."Raoul and the Kings of Spain"5:16
6."God's Mistake"3:48
7."Closest Thing to Heaven"3:36
8."Who Killed Tangerine?"5:32
9."Call Me Mellow"3:37
10."Secret World"5:05
11."Floating Down the River (Once Again)"3:55
12."Mad World (Live)"5:43
Total length:54:21

Personnel

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According to MusicBrainz:[6]

Additional personnel

Charts

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Chart performance for Gold
Chart (2024) Peak
position
Greek Albums (IFPI)[7] 33

Gold: The Videos

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Gold: The Videos
Video by
Released2007
Genre
Lengthapproximately 72 minutes
LabelUniversal Music Group
Tears for Fears chronology
Famous Last Words: The Collection
(2007)
Gold: The Videos
(2007)
The Silver Spectrum Collection
(2007)

A video compilation was released in 2007 and included 15 videos spanning the band's first four albums.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Tears for Fears – Gold (2006, CD)". Discogs. March 15, 2022. Retrieved June 2, 2024.
  2. ^ "Gold Album songs Tears for Fears ※ Mojim.com Lyrics". Mojim. March 15, 2022.
  3. ^ Gold - Tears for Fears | Album | AllMusic, retrieved 2024-06-03
  4. ^ Schiller, Mike (6 November 2006). "Tears for Fears: Gold". Popmatters. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  5. ^ Duqette, Mike (25 February 2010). "Back Tracks: Tears for Fears". The Second Disc. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  6. ^ "Release "Gold" by Tears for Fears - MusicBrainz". musicbrainz.org. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
  7. ^ "Official IFPI Charts – Top-75 Albums Sales Chart (Week: 40/2024)". IFPI Greece. Archived from the original on October 10, 2024. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
  8. ^ "Gold Collection: The Videos - Tears for Fears". AllMusic. Retrieved 2024-06-04.