Curt and Roland split up at the end of The Seeds Of Love tour. Roland then chose Alan Griffiths as his partner in sound. Griffiths was the second half of Tears For Fear in every aspects except visually. He was never featured on album covers or promotional material. Together they produced Elemental and Raoul and The Kings of Spain along with enough b-sides and stray tracks for another album's worth. As much as I love the early Tears For Fears material (I also love their Pre-TFF Graduate LP), the material that Roland and Alan released as Tears For Fears is the one that I often return to and I'm most fond of.
I not only invite everyone to listen to these two albums but also the following b-sides:
War Of Attrition
Queen Of Compromise
Lord of Karma
Bloodletting Go
Schrodinger's Cat (Roland in his I'm The Walrus mode)
My favourite has to be this one from the Kings of Spain sessions:
I was extremely fortunate to catch that version of Tears For Fears twice in concert for the Elemental and Raoul and The Kings of Spain tours and they are amongst the best concerts I've seen. The multi-talented Gain Ann Dorsey played bass and sang on the Elemental tour and Kings of Spain album. The live version the she and Roland did together of Woman in Chains was breathtaking. She then went on to work with David Bowie on several albums and tours. If you own Bowie's BBC Radio Theatre, London, June 27, 2000 CD, you can hear Gail Ann's beautiful voice and stunning bass playing in full force.
I could go on for hours about these albums and the gifted people who have created them.