This album was released in 3 different color variants, none of which were offered on Amazon when I preordered this thing last month! Note to future buyers: look carefully at the full description to insure you are getting what you want. If you don’t care about the colored, limited editions, then Amazon is your store. Otherwise, consider supporting your local independent record store and get the colored vinyl, which comes with much nicer, poly-lined inner sleeves! Pricing is the same! In review of the album itself, what a stellar offering from such an amazing group of outstanding musicians. The 4 new songs and the live tracks together offer a wonderful helping of musical goodness as we excitedly await a full release of new material. The artwork and overall presentation of this album is quite praiseworthy. This is a must have for any true Tears for Fears fanatic.

It's Tears for Fears so of course it's great. I wish it had a few more new tunes (it contains 4 new tracks with concert versions of their older, classic songs), but I'm just happy any time I can get a new release from this stellar band.

it has maybe 5 new songs, then its live and tipping point material. love the band, but this is not a new studio release like tipping point was

Tears for Fears has always offered a well recorded product. Both the four studio tracks and the live concert tracks are reproduced well in the CD format. I saw this tour live and this CD is a great representation.

Yes! Definitely a great live album. And the new studio songs are pretty good, cherry on the cake. I love the live version of Suffer the Children, especially, as well as Badman’s song, Pale shelter etc … a great addition to my collection! 😊 bring back a lot of memories from my teenager years!

Come on, this is, arguably, the greatest pop band (rivaled only XTC and Sarah McLachlan) of the last forty years. Stunning stuff. Masters of pop, masters of music, masters of art. Enjoy.

There isn’t anything by this group that I could ever dislike. You will love it!!

You will not be disappointed by anything in this release. Just the greatest collection from Tears for fears.I don’t know how they would top this. Just phenomenal!

Es un cd de colección tan válido como un vinilo….

tres cool

Perfecto. 4 nuevas canciones de estudio (5 en la edición Target Exclusive) El resto son canciones clásicas del grupo con un sonido sobresaliente. Muy recomendado para fans y no fans del mítico grupo. La canción " The Girl That I Call Home" una Joya musical y una letra llena de nostalgia.

Enfin de nouvelles chansons, même si le reste des deux cds sont surtout des morceaux en live. Toujours un grand plaisir d'écouter ce groupe talentueux et si cher à nos coeurs. Je recommande chaudement !

With their last studio album - The Tipping Point - being their highest charting release since their 1980s imperial phase, Tears for Fears return with a supercharged confidence with this live album that includes an EPs worth of new studio tracks at its start. Although some fans might be disappointed it is not an entire new album, it is pleasing that the gap between The Tipping Point record and Songs for A Nervous Planet is only just over 2 and a half years compared to the near 2 decades without new Tears for Fears material last time. Even though it is not a completely new collection it is just great for there to be 4 new songs when it appeared the last notes of The Tipping Point bonus track Secret Location were the last we would hear of this legendary synth pop/rock duo. The new material is like an addendum to that previous 2022 album really in terms of its style - it is similarly old Tears for Fears repackaged in a contemporary pop shell. However, after The Tipping Point record was understandably largely grief-themed and darker, these new songs - while still tinged with pain - tend to have a greater positivity and contentment. The opener, Say Goodbye to Mum and Dad, sounds a bit haunted and troubled by the world events of the past few years but it is ultimately uplifting. It is a good, quite fast paced song with a mostly electronic sheen. Emily Said is another strong number and while the lyrics reflect some of Roland Orzabal's previous troubles a bit, the overall sense is that his new love has provided him with some comfort. It pleasingly sounds like one of Orzabal's musical obsessions - The Beatles - and has quite a chirpy, sixties jangle pop feel with some nice soundscape effects. However, the finest pair of the four new songs that could belong to the duo's greatest work are the first two to be promoted in The Girl That I Call Home and Astronaut. The former clearly refers to his second wife again and is a celebration of their love. Beginning (and ending) with a Peter Gabriel’s San Jacinto-like electronic chime it is an upbeat, catchy track and blends multi-layered, bleeping synth effects/beats with some more tuneful guitars. The melody and sentiment are beautiful, and it is the finest of the brand-new numbers. But Astronaut is also outstanding too and despite again referencing this planet's challenges it feels escapist, defiant and quite euphoric. Like Emily Said, it is again particularly Beatles-esque - right down to the Strawberry Fields-like keyboards - beginning with a progressive, warm and atmospheric sound for its first half that reaches a spectacular guitar-led climax. Nevertheless, while the new Tears for Fears cuts are exciting Songs for a Nervous Planet is mainly a live album compiled from The Tipping Point Tour concert in Franklin, Tennessee. The live tracks translate so well from the studio versions as all the intricacies of the rather ornate Tears for Fears arrangements are performed so well by the tight touring band. Every Tears for Fears era is represented in the setlist apart from Raoul and the Kings of Spain which does not matter too much anyway because it is their least good album. The Tipping Point was an excellent record and these more recent numbers blend seamlessly with the old favourites - some gig attendees may want to hear all the hits but when the more recent material is as great as it is, it is extremely satisfying for there to be 6 of them included. Although all the live performances of Tears for Fears' most classic and popular songs are sensational, the setlist is made even more complete by the presence of deep cuts like the epic Badman's Song, Suffer the Children and the McCartney-like Secret World from the underrated Everybody Loves a Happy Ending record. There is even room for a few twists to extend Tears for Fears' live repertoire further as Suffer the Children is sung by one of the beautifully voiced backing singers and Change incorporates a bit of a modern dance electro texture during the verses while Head Over Heels ends thrillingly with part of Broken like it did on their 1985 magnum opus Songs from the Big Chair. I prefer concerts where the artist has some surprises - as opposed to Greatest Hits Tours - and The Tipping Point Tour delivered this. Overall, Songs for a Nervous Planet is an absolutely worthwhile venture from Tears for Fears. Some fans criticised the AI artwork and while it is not as visually striking or original as The Seeds of Love cover for example, it is still decent and maintains the duo's fascination with a Sunflower motif. But anyone who is disappointed with the cover surely cannot be disappointed with the videos for the new songs - they are visually stunning and memorable with an astronaut theme as well as repeating the moon one from their Seeds of Love period. Even though a full new record would have been even better, as it took so long between the previous two Songs for a Nervous Planet has four new songs that are a rewarding bonus, and the live performances are essential Tears for Fears listening as they rank amongst their greatest shows ever.