The Hurting (studio album)
by Tears For Fears
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Tears For Fears bestography
The Hurting is ranked 2nd best out of 12 albums by Tears For Fears on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Tears For Fears is Songs From The Big Chair which is ranked number 327 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,224.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Hurting track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 4 days ago | Araldo | 1,469 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/18/2025 07:00 | Exist-en-ciel | 2,370 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 23:12 | NYAndreas | 1,432 | 43/100 |
| ! | 09/07/2025 06:27 | martintho | 4,696 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/28/2025 02:59 | skrapoel | 2,229 | 72/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.0/100, a mean average of 77.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.
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This summed up my early teens when I first heard this album, Full of angst and horror, I remember it well and this album reminds me of those feelings even to this day decades later.
Simply Excellent, Angst Hurt, Confusion, Madness, truly summed my teenage years
This is a surprisingly good album for debut and for the genre it represents, Mad World is true masterpiece of 80s music, but the whole record is pretty solid.
santropez 03/09/2019 15:06 | #233286
Favourite track: "Mad World"
Least-liked track: "The Prisoner"
Tears for Fears really stands out from the rest in relation from synth-oriented pop tunes, they really new how to do it smartly. The Hurting, for this case, is an good debut.
wooolf 10/02/2017 11:29 | #198994
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Decent British 80's synth pop album, not one of my favourites but it does contain the classic Mad World, and closely followed by (the also very good) Change and Suffer The Children.
I still remember hearing the beginning of Change on a Windsor alternative station at 1am and ran out the next day to buy the album. One of the few darker moodier albums that I can listen too over and over again
A good album for a debut better than most eighties artists around the time underrated in my opinion best tracks clearly the hits especially 'Mad World' being the best version of the song also
The album carries a lot of spirit.
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