Everybody Loves a Happy Ending

Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
Studio album by Tears for Fears
Released 14 September 2004 (US)
7 March 2005 (UK/Europe)
Recorded 2000-2003 at Charlton's Garage, Sherman Oaks, California
Genre New wave, pop rock
Length 54:35
Label New Door (US)
Gut Records (UK)
XIII Bis Records (FRA)
Edel Records (GER)
Producer Tears for Fears, Charlton Pettus
Tears for Fears chronology
Saturnine Martial & Lunatic
(1996)		 Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
(2004)		 Secret World Live in Paris
(2006)
Singles from Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
  1. "Closest Thing to Heaven"
    Released: 21 February 2005
  2. "Everybody Loves a Happy Ending/Call Me Mellow"
    Released: 2005
  3. "Secret World"
    Released: 2006 (promo, France only)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(65/100)[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Austin Chronicle[3]
Billboard(favorable)[4]
Drowned in Sound(5/10)[5]
The Guardian[6]
Mojo[1]
PopMatters[1][7]
Q[1]
Uncut[1][8]

Everybody Loves a Happy Ending is the sixth studio album by the British pop rock/new wave band Tears for Fears, released on 14 September 2004 in the US, and 7 March 2005 in the UK and Europe. It was released some nine years after the previous Tears for Fears studio album, Raoul and the Kings of Spain, and was the first album featuring both original bandmembers Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith together since 1989's The Seeds of Love.

Work on the album began in 2000, after Smith and Orzabal ended their longstanding feud. The album was originally due for release in 2003 on the Arista label, but personnel changes in the label's management (namely the departure of L.A. Reid who had signed the duo) led to the band breaking ties with the label before any music was released. The album eventually surfaced in the US in 2004 when it was released on the New Door label (a subsidiary of Universal Music), and in the UK in 2005 on the British independent label Gut Records.

According to SoundScan figures, the album had sold 99,000 copies in the US by January 2008.[9]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Everybody Loves a Happy Ending"  Orzabal, Smith, Pettus 4:21
2. "Closest Thing to Heaven"  Orzabal, Smith, Pettus 3:36
3. "Call Me Mellow"  Orzabal, Smith, Pettus 3:39
4. "Size of Sorrow"  Orzabal 4:43
5. "Who Killed Tangerine?"  Orzabal, Smith, Pettus 5:33
6. "Quiet Ones"  Orzabal 4:22
7. "Who You Are"  Smith, Pettus 3:41
8. "The Devil"  Orzabal 3:30
9. "Secret World"  Orzabal 5:12
10. "Killing with Kindness"  Orzabal, Smith, Pettus 5:25
11. "Ladybird"  Orzabal, Smith, Pettus 4:50
12. "Last Days on Earth"  Orzabal, Smith, Pettus 5:41

Personnel

Production

Charts

Year Chart Position
2004 US 46
2005 UK 45
FRA 28
GER 35
NL 86
SWI 48

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
2004 "Call Me Mellow" US Adult Top 40 28
2005 "Closest Thing to Heaven" UK 40

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Critic reviews at Metacritic
  2. ↑ Allmusic review
  3. ↑ The Austin Chronicle review
  4. ↑ Billboard review at the Wayback Machine (archived 30 September 2004)
  5. ↑ Drowned in Sound review
  6. ↑ The Guardian review
  7. ↑ PopMatters review
  8. ↑ Uncut review
  9. ↑ Ask Billboard (ELAHE sales 4 January 2008)
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