This one is more for me than for you. My son has a cover of the song in the first video from some goof ball band (Gary Jules) he listens to, and I told him that it was a pretty good cover. Cover? he asked. Yeah, it’s a cover. Tears for Fears did it in, like, 1983. We listened to both and he claimed that the cover was better ’cause Tears for Fears was just too old. And that’s the story of how my kid got grounded from his iPod again.

So, an amusing story from the WIKI:

The band’s name is derived from the Primal therapy treatment of the same name developed by Arthur Janov, which was made famous after John Lennon became Janov’s patient. While undergoing primal therapy, a patient is encouraged to “re-experience” his early, dramatic emotional states (even perinatal ones), including screaming like an infant, hence the expression “tears for fears”. Orzabal tried primal therapy in the early 1980s, although Smith never did, and neither returned to the treatment after that time.

In a 2004 interview with VH1 UK, Orzabal and Smith said that when they finally met Janov in the mid-80s, they were disillusioned to find that he had become quite “Hollywood” and wanted the band to write a musical about primal therapy.

Funny, eh? Therapy is always good for a laugh.

Here’s their website

This one reminds of when Dennis Miller was still funny.

And this song will always be great