Tears For Fears “Shout” 1984. 12″ single. Today, June 24th, is Tears For Fears co-founder/singer/bassist/keyboardist Curt Smith’s 60th birthday (b. 1961). “Shout,” from their second album Songs From the Big Chair, went to #4 in the UK and went all the way to #1 in the US in late summer ‘85. The song and video were inescapable and I eventually got heartily sick of what one critic calls “the most recognizable song from the 80′s.” Fortunately this 12″ has two remixes of the smash single. Side A is “Shout (US Remix),” an great extended remix with an industrial/Depeche Mode sound and beat. Side B has “Shout (UK Remix)” which a little more closely resembles the radio-single version, though twice the length, more organ effects and some extended world-music flavored instrumental sections. The other track on Side B is “The Big Chair,” an instrumental, also very Depeche-flavored. From Wiki: “the track contains dialogue samples performed by actors Sally Field and William Prince from the 1976 television film Sybil, from which the song (and the album Songs from the Big Chair) takes its name.”