![]() ![]() While a mostly-instrumental track called "The Big Chair" (which includes dialogue samples from the film) was released as the B-side of "Shout" in 1984, it was not included on the album (but was available on its "special limited edition" cassette version, released in the UK in 1985). ![]() The first song written for the album was "Head Over Heels", which the band played live during a tour undertaken between the two albums. The band started to generate new material around the beginning of 1984. ![]() We found the need to be more outgoing on The Big Chair". In an interview for the 2006 deluxe version booklet, Curt Smith noted that "We were very introverted on The Hurting it was a very dark album. The title of the album reflects the band's view of being targeted by a hostile English music press at the time. Originally, the album was to be titled The Working Hour, but Roland Orzabal fought to change it to Songs from the Big Chair, which was derived from the 1976 television film Sybil about a woman with multiple personality disorder who only feels safe when she is sitting in her analyst's "big chair". ![]()
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