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Tears for Fears - Break It Down Again

1993 unmarried by Tears for Fears

1993 single by Tears for Fears

"Interruption It Downwardly Again"
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Unmarried by Tears for Fears
from the album Elemental
B-side
  • "Bloodletting Get"
  • "Schrödinger'south Cat"
Released 17 May 1993
Genre Pop rock
Length iv:32
Label Mercury
Songwriter(s)
  • Roland Orzabal
  • Alan Griffiths
Producer(due south)
  • Roland Orzabal
  • Tim Palmer
  • Alan Griffiths
Tears for Fears singles chronology
"Woman in Chains"
(1992) 		"Break It Down Again"
(1993) 		"Common cold"
(1993)
Music video
"Pause It Downward Again" on YouTube

"Break It Downwards Again" is a song past British band Tears for Fears, released every bit the starting time unmarried from their fourth studio anthology, Elemental (1993). Information technology is one of the band's later songs with the typical late 1980s sound, using synthesizers. The vocal was the second single released after the departure of Curt Smith from the ring (after "Laid So Low" in 1992).

The song was an international hit, reaching number twenty in the United Kingdom, number 25 in the U.s., and the top 40 in several other countries. It topped the U.s. Billboard Modern Stone Tracks nautical chart and was particularly successful in Canada and Iceland, reaching numbers four and two respectively; the single also entered the superlative x in Italian republic.

Background [edit]

As with the Elemental album, the vocal featured Roland Orzabal with peripheral Tears For Fears band members Alan Griffiths and Tim Palmer, plus backing vocals past ex-Graduate bandmate John Baker. "Break It Down Again" is the just song that has regularly remained in alive setlists following Smith's return.

B-sides [edit]

The CD single included two non-album B-sides, of which "Schrodinger'southward Cat", the get-go in a number of songs past Orzabal dealing with modern physics, has caused a cult status.

Schrodinger's Cat is a famous thought experiment attempting to clarify some of the vagaries of quantum physics. This track didn't make information technology onto the 'Elemental' album because Alan (Griffiths) and I had such a rambling arrangement which we couldn't rationalize until the time restrictions and relaxed mentality of the b-side enabled it to happen by itself. Musically, it's some other attempt to rewrite 'I Am The Walrus' interspersed with a piano suspension reminiscent of 'Something In The Air'.[1]

—Roland Orzabal

In addition to the mentioned references, the song also quotes the guitar riff from "Sgt. Pepper's Lone Hearts Club Band".

The song "Bloodletting Go" is one of the showtime songs written by Orzabal and Griffiths.[2] Both songs were later included on the B-sides compilation Saturnine Martial & Lunatic.

Music video [edit]

The music video shows Orzabal, Griffiths, and Gail Ann Dorsey (who joined Tears for Fears as a touring member) performing the song on the desert El Mirage Lake, California, where the "Break It Down Again" single and the Elemental album covers were taken. The video was directed by Dani Jacobs.

Track listings [edit]

7-inch single [3]

  1. "Break Information technology Downwardly Over again"
  2. "Bloodletting Go" (Roland Orzabal, Alan Griffiths)

UK CD single [4]

  1. "Break Information technology Down Once more"
  2. "Bloodletting Get" (Orzabal, Griffiths)
  3. "Schrodinger's True cat" (Orzabal, Griffiths)
  4. "Interruption It Downward Again" (karaoke version)

Charts [edit]

Come across also [edit]

  • List of Billboard number-one culling singles of the 1990s

References [edit]

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  3. ^ Break It Down Again (Britain seven-inch single sleeve). Tears for Fears. Mercury Records. 1993. IDEA 18, 862 110-7. {{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. ^ Suspension It Down Over again (Great britain CD single liner notes). Tears for Fears. Mercury Records. 1993. IDECD 18, 862 331-2. {{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  5. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia'southward Music Charts 1988-2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
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  20. ^ "Tears for Fears Chart History (Popular Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  21. ^ "The RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks of 1993". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  22. ^ "Árslistinn 1993". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 4 January 1994. p. 16. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  23. ^ "Billboard Meridian 100 – 1993". Archived from the original on ten November 2006. Retrieved 27 August 2010.

Tears for Fears - Break It Down Again

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