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Your Favorite Band Sucks

Tears for Fears Sucks

Your Favorite Band Sucks

Your Favorite Band Sucks

Music

3.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

You ever wonder how bad of an idea it would be to start a band after reading exactly one pop psychology book and buying into some new crackpot therapy method? Look no further... Tears for Fears (a.k.a. literal crybabies, Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal) just want to make you shout. No, not like The Isley Brothers. Not like that at all. Basically, these dickweeds were barely in their 20s when they decided they knew how to fix the world (which is, like, we all should cry and scream more?) and that's what their songs are about. Cool, huh? (Yes, this really happened. We're not making it up.) Call your shrink and tell them sessions are canceled because it turns out Tears for Fears has you covered.

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0:00.0

Why does every band we talk about always end up being one or two people who do everything?

0:16.4

Uh, the guy say can only find one or two people that aren't talented enough to be in a shitty band together?

0:23.3

It's just weird. Okay, I figured it out. What?

0:25.8

Because if you have like a whole band full of people that you have to convince something's good, it's a lot harder.

0:31.1

Oh, they go, if you're writing shitty music, it's really easy to convince one other person that it's good.

0:36.7

You're like, no, it's good. And then they're like, okay, yeah, it's good. And they put it out.

0:39.8

Versus imagine a whole band. You got to convince five fucking people that the song is good. It's as hard.

0:43.8

Hey, you just nailed that off the cuff.

0:45.6

Fucking keep it simple. You're right. I think I also think if your band is just two people, then you shouldn't be allowed to have a band name.

0:53.8

It's not really a band. Why no? It's a duo. It should be like, hall and oath. You should have to name it your name.

0:58.8

Yes. Unless these dudes, I don't recall them being like, oh, hey, I'm tier. Oh, cool. I'm fear.

1:04.7

Oh, we should be in a band. It's definitely not the case.

1:07.0

If you had to put your name in the band, then everyone would know exactly who to blame.

1:10.8

If you suck, then everyone knows who to blame. It doesn't get spread out over everyone in the promo pictures.

1:16.4

You can hide behind it. Also, you can replace people with the band name.

1:21.0

Yeah. So like, hall and oats, if hall or oats isn't there, it's just oats or it's just hall.

1:28.6

Tears for fears could be any of you. If you didn't know who they were, two random fucking guys,

1:34.1

I don't know who they are.

1:36.3

Two random dudes that could sing the songs and play them and say they were tears. You'd believe them.

1:40.7

You'd go, oh, yeah, that's tears for fears.

1:42.5

Probably the reason they didn't want to use their names is that their names are Roland Orzabal and Kurt Smith.

1:49.0

Orzabal. You guys want to listen to some Roland and Kurt?

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