I hit Jive Time Records in Fremont again this weekend. It’s nice to be able to get out again after being snowed in for well over a week. And while I didn’t pick up as much as I have in the past, I did pretty well, even throwing in a bit of variety!

Tears for Fears and Depeche Mode were prominently featured this time around. Here’s a run-down!

Depeche Mode – It’s Called a Heart 12″ single
Depeche Mode – But Not Tonight 12″
Depeche Mode – A Broken Frame LP
Depeche Mode – Strangelove 12″
Depeche Mode – People Are People 12″
Tears For Fears – I Believe 12″
Tears For Fears – Mad World 12″
Tears For Fears – Suffer the Children 12″ (their first single, from 1981)
Tears For Fears – The Hurting LP
Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World 12″ (Japanese Import with a great remix of “Shout”)
Grateful Dead – Reckoning Double LP (life acoustic!)
The Three O’Clock – Arrive Without Traveling LP
Pet Shop Boys – How Do You Expect to be Taken Seriously? 12″ (great remix!!)
Sparks – Propaganda LP (Dwija will be proud! I now have six or seven Sparks LPs)
The Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come LP
The Cure – Pornography LP
Fun Boy Three – Our Lips are Sealed 12″ (not picured)
Altered Images – Pinky Blue LP (not pictured)

I’m not through with listening to everything just yet, but so far, the remix of “Shout” and the remix of “How Do You Expect to be Taken Seriously” are my favorites. Unfortunately, the latter seems to never have been released on CD, so I can’t let you have a listen. But here are some other gems…

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Tears for Fears – Mad World
If you’re not familiar with this version, you might be familiar with the piano and vocal cover from the movie Donnie Darko. That was the first version I heard and really, really dug it. When I heard the original Tears for Fears version, I hated it at first. But it’s since grown on me and I now prefer it to the Donnie Darko one.

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Depeche Mode – People Are People (Different Mix)
I first heard the song when it was released and have dug it since. I saw this 12″ once when I was 10, but didn’t pick it up. I finally have a copy. That made my day.

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Tears for Fears – Shout (Extended Version)
This was another song from when I was a youngin. It reached #1 on Billboards charts on the same day I turned 10. Imagine that! Everybody loved this. Here’s a long, but great remix. It’s quite different from the more common “US Remix.”

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Fun Boy Three – Our Lips are Sealed (12″ Mix)
This is just a bit of fun, but I really dig it. I’m not sure that I heard it as a kid though. It’s one of those songs that wasn’t really big in the 80’s, but makes all the 80’s comps because it’s cool/fun/ironic.

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Tears for Fear – Wino
This is an unreleased B-Side from their first single, “Suffer the Children” that never made it to CD (or even to an album). It’s acoustic and fairly different from what you’d typically expect from TFF.

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Sparks – Something for the Girl with Everything
And let’s end this little fun fest with a really fun cut from the Propaganda LP. Again, BIG thanks to Dwija for turning me onto Sparks. Woo!

There you go, hope someone digs this.