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Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Synth-pop
Year:
1984

Tracklist

Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Pharaohs

Versions

Title, FormatLabelCat#CountryYear
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (7", Single) Mercury IDEA 9 UK 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Todos Quieren Gobernar El Mundo) (7", Single) Mercury, Polygram Ibérica 880659-7, Spain 1984
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Extended Version) (12") Mercury IDEA 912 UK 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Extended Version) (12") Mercury 880 659-1 Germany 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Urban Mix) (12") Mercury IDER 912 UK 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Urban Mix) (7") Mercury, Mercury IDER 9, 880765-7 UK 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (10") Mercury IDEA 910 UK 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (12") Mercury 880 659-1 US 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (12") Mercury SOVXB 2354 Canada 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (12") Phonogram (France) 880 659-1 France 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (12") Mercury 880 659-1 Netherlands 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (12") Mercury 15PP-49 Japan 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (12", Ltd) Vertigo SOVXA 2354 Canada 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (12", Promo) Mercury PRO 340-1 US 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (12", W/Lbl, Promo) Mercury 880 659-1 US 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (2x7", Single) Mercury IDEA 99 UK 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (7") PolyGram Dischi SPA 880 659-7 Italy 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (7") Mercury 880 659-7 Netherlands 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (7") Mercury 880 659-7 US 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (7", Blu) Mercury IDEA 9 UK 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (7", Single) Mercury 880 659-7Q Germany 1985
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (CDV, Maxi, PAL) Mercury 080 032-2 UK 1988
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Rated 5/5
Review by brainspo0n Aug 01, 2009

referencing Everybody Wants To Rule The World, 12", 880 659-1

The b-side "Pharaohs" is worth the price alone. It is an absolutely beautiful instrumental piece. Pharaohs does feature a recorded voice, taken from a British shipping forecast, to a very satisfying effect. The music is largely a remix of Everybody Wants to Rule the world, with some very pronounced piano, but you wouldn't know it until the very end if you weren't all that familiar.

I am a pretty big Tears for Fears fan, but somehow this small moment in their discography might be my favorite of all. Pharaohs also appears on the comp titled Saturnine Martial Lunatic, which seems easy enough to find.