Tears For Fears – The Hurting (Anniversary Edition) (SDE Limited Edition) (1983/2023) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Title: Tears For Fears – The Hurting (Anniversary Edition)
Release Date: 1983/2023
Genre: Pop Rock

Production/Label: Mercury Records Ltd.
Duration: 00:41:38 + 00:07:23
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: ISO (*.iso)
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: Dolby Atmos; LPCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video 15000 kbps 1080p / 24 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio1: Dolby TrueHD/Atmos Audio / English / 7269 kbps / 7.1 / 48 kHz / 6629 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 640 kbps / DN -31dB) (Steven Wilson mix)
Audio2: DTS -HD Master Audio / English / 6625 kbps / 5.1 / 96 kHz / 6625 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) (Steven Wilson mix)
Audio3: LPCM Audio / English / 4608 kbps / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit (Steven Wilson instrumental mix)
Audio4: LPCM Audio / English / 4608 kbps / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit (Original mix)
Size: 19,79 GB

40th anniversary blu-ray audio

Tears For Fears‘ 1983 debut album The Hurting turns 40 today! Now where did that time go? To celebrate, and in collaboration with Virgin/UMR and the band, the album will be reissued on the Blu-ray Audio format in May and will be available exclusively from SDE, via theSDEshop.com.

The album features the hit singles ‘Mad World’, ‘Change’ and ‘Pale Shelter’, all of which reached the top five of the UK charts in 1982-3. The Hurting is the only Tears For Fears album written solely by Roland Orzabal and is a loose concept album focusing on themes of childhood psychological trauma and Arthur Janov’s Primal Scream therapy, the theories behind which gave the band their name. Despite its dark subject matter, the album was a huge commercial success [topping the UK charts] and continues to resonate with younger audiences to this day.

‘Mad World’ was the first hit single for Tears For Fears from ‘The Hurting’ in late 1982.
The SDE-exclusive Blu-ray Audio sees The Hurting remixed for spatial audio for the very first time. The renowned musician, songwriter and producer Steven Wilson has created a Dolby Atmos Mix and a dedicated 5.1 mix which have been approved by the band. Steven was previously responsible for the spatial audio mixes of the Tears For Fears albums Songs From The Big Chair (1985), The Seeds of Love (1989) and The Tipping Point (2022).

Additionally, this new Hurting blu-ray audio will feature a previously unreleased instrumental mix of The Hurting and two previously unreleased bonus tracks.

The story behind these bonus tracks is rather interesting. When Steven Wilson was supplied with the multi-track tapes for remixing, he came across two unreleased versions of songs from the album. These were ‘Mad World’ and ‘Watch Me Bleed’, as produced by Mike Howlett, the man responsible for the first single version of ‘Pale Shelter’. Howlett might have ended up producing the album, but his working relationship with Tears For Fears was destined to be short-lived, with Roland Orzabal explaining to this writer in 2013 [on the 30th anniversary] that “he was trying to use the LinnDrum [machine] on everything and we were not very happy”. Curt also thought that “Mike was far too commercial for us” and thus Howlett ultimately made way for Chris Hughes and Ross Cullum to produce The Hurting.

Apart from the first single version of ‘Pale Shelter’, none of Mike Howlett’s work has ever been released and indeed Roland and Curt hadn’t heard these tracks themselves since they were first recorded! This is a historical find and these rarities have sat, undiscovered, in the vaults for 40 years (probably because they were never mixed to stereo). Both songs have now been newly mixed by Steven Wilson and are included on the Blu-ray as special bonus audio.

Audio streams available on the SDE-exclusive The Hurting Blu-ray Audio:

The Hurting – Steven Wilson 2023 Dolby Atmos mix
The Hurting – Steven Wilson 2023 DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix (96/24)
The Hurting – Original Mix in hi-res stereo (96/24)
The Hurting – Steven Wilson 2023 Instrumental mix in hi-res stereo (96/24)

And the two bonus tracks, both mixed to hi-res stereo (96/24) by Steven Wilson, are:

‘Mad World’ (Mike Howlett Version)
‘Watch Me Bleed’ (Mike Howlett Version)

Tracklist :
1 The Hurting
2 Mad World
3 Pale Shelter
4 Ideas As Opiates
5 Memories Fade
6 Suffer The Children
7 Watch Me Bleed
8 Change
9 The Prisoner
10 Start Of The Breakdown

Bonus Tracks:
1 Mad World (Mike Howlett Version)
2 Watch Me Bleed (Mike Howlett Version)

Blu-ray ISO

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