Tears for Fears was formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith who’ve been successful selling more than 22 million albums worldwide with well known songs such as “Sowing the Seeds of Love”, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” and “Mad World”.

During the 1980s they were heavily inflluenced by artists such as Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno. How ever in 1991 the band broke up and both embarked on solo careers. The year before they released the single “Advice for the young at heart” featuring a b-side “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams” taking it’s title from a collection of short stories by deceased poet and writer Sylvia Plath.

The song sounds very different to the previous material released and seemed quite fitting with a style of music that was popular early doors in clubs across the country at the time. The slow burning break-beat coupled with haunting strings, operatic vocals and colourful keys are elements that combine into this one sound making it their most under-rated release waiting to be discovered.

In 1991 Fluke remixed the song and released it as a single where it become a number-one hit in the UK Dance Chart. It reached number 70 on the UK singles chart.

Here’s the original b-side as it was intended to be heard. Enjoy.