“Goodnight Song” by Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears pulled "Goodnight Song" from their 1993 album Elemental and issued it on Mercury as a North American single, with some European countries getting it too, though never Britain. Roland Orzabal wrote it with Alan Griffiths, and the pair produced it with Tim Palmer, with Mark O’Donoughue engineering: a polished, grown-up piece of pop rock that became a minor hit in Canada.

It found a second life on screen, rolling under the opening titles of Threesome, a 1994 film, and turning up on its soundtrack. Dani Jacobs directed the video, which has Orzabal and the band playing in a bar, cut with flashes of a boardwalk and even a toothbrush, all in a '90s American Southwest look. The US single carried "New Star" on the flip, and the song resurfaced on the 1996 compilation Saturnine Martial & Lunatic.

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