The Seeds Of Love
by Tears For Fears
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The Seeds Of Love is ranked 3rd 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 5,194.
(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 Seeds Of Love track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 12/15/2025 05:22 | Exist-en-ciel | 6,050 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2025 17:29 | Araldo | 1,471 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/28/2025 18:17 |  Kingturtle | 7,530 | 73/100 |
| ! | 11/17/2025 21:50 | Juneof44 | 2,560 | 69/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 23:17 | NYAndreas | 1,432 | 43/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 13% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 73.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.3.
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Excellent late eighties album from two very underrated musicians.
Stand out tracks "Sowing the seeds of love" and "Year of the knife".
Beautiful album. Great themes. Great production. Great songs.
Keatownrodriguez 10/15/2019 17:27 | #243782
Okay, Advice for the Young at Heart might be my favorite song of the 80's
santropez 03/09/2019 15:08 | #233288
Best track: "Swords And Knives"
Weakest track: "Badman's Song"
exileonthehell 01/26/2016 01:12 | #157745
Overlooked record I know have in my collection, amazing.
Better than other albums, I think some songs drag for too long. Whatever this deserves more
A very underrated album, I think it gets far too much stick. Although I find some tracks to be weak, side 1 is superb and "Woman in Chains" and "Sowing the Seeds of Love" are among my favourite songs of all time.
Find this album underrated, it's a really good. I must be in the minority here who views this album in a positive way. Favorite tracks are Badman's Song, Sowing The Seeds Of Love, Advice For The Young At Heart, Year Of The Knife, and Famous Last Words
junodog4 12/05/2014 03:24 | #128751
Rufus isn't far off. It seems it needs another edit before it hits the level of their top work.
Gooz 09/08/2014 13:47 | #121502
First half is simply amazing.
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