Tears for Fears "Mad World" MP3

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Does anyone know where I can get an MP3 of Mad world by Tears for fears?

― kar120c, Monday, 24 November 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

Man, check the remake on the Donnie Darko soundtrack. That's just far superior...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 24 November 2003 20:55 (twenty years ago) link

I love that version, but I'm interested in hearing the original.

― kar120c, Monday, 24 November 2003 21:04 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah. So was I.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:34 (twenty years ago) link

honestly, it can't be hard to find, just go P2P.

― Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

i don't get the big deal with the version on DD - prefer the original

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 11:57 (twenty years ago) link

What about the Alex Parks version?

I went to HMV last night and Alex Parks was signing. It's the first time I've ever seen a real reality TV contestant. She looked...real.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 11:59 (twenty years ago) link

is she sexy? i can't figure

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:05 (twenty years ago) link

I couldn't really tell. She's certainly very pretty though.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:08 (twenty years ago) link

Tears for Fears original is miles better.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

the ultimate in anti-rockist rockism!! the orginal is off the hoozy, but, come one, really...

― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:28 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, in three months you'll all be sick of it.

Remember "What's up" four non-blondes? You all loved it at first...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:47 (twenty years ago) link

??? what are you on about enrique?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:50 (twenty years ago) link

tears for fears' version is fascinating but it's not as good as the cover. i'm preparing to hate the cover, which is a shame, but shit, some songs don't survive the playlist and this is one of em.

liking tears for fears' version is less rockist than liking the nu one (dunno why -- use of 80s instruments, you're the expert). but it's inverted rockism because it's too easy.

― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:07 (twenty years ago) link

What new one? I am still baffled enrique sorry!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:09 (twenty years ago) link

Gary Jules' cover of Mad World from the soundtrack to Donnie Darko, and the Dark Horse for the Xmas #1. Released as single on 15/12, on R1's B-List. Expect them to be getting behind it big style.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:11 (twenty years ago) link

Ah right, all is clear.

Liking originals over covers can be rockist btw.

I like the TFF version a great deal though. Not heard the new one.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:12 (twenty years ago) link

their tude is weird -- scott mills was like 'in forty minutes we're gonna play MAD WORLD' -- like it's the new britney or whatever. they've constructed a kind of 'for the ppl' angle -- individual djs play it cuz they like it etc. and i think it'll wilt. or is this my indie snobbery coming back -- oh no don't want the gurls to like it. dunno. but i like the song still, even if i did think it was REM initially.

Liking originals over covers can be rockist btw.

egg-ackley. but when it's t4f, i need a poppist expert to guide me.

― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:14 (twenty years ago) link

TFF version, because its a sad song done upbeat, defiant even.

New version, singer goes off for a cry after finishing...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:16 (twenty years ago) link

Bizarre how you Brits love Donnie Darko so.

― bugged out, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:17 (twenty years ago) link

you haven't said which is better. t4f is more -- hey, ya'll worn-out faces, brighten up, cuz i've just done me a line.

that's my reading anyhoo.

bugged out -- where are you from so i can make a silly generalization?

― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:18 (twenty years ago) link

TFF is in that micro-genre of serious 80s pseudo-intellectual synthpop (Jerry the Nipper did a good post on it once) - early Martin Gore-written Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, etc. It's not big brash 80s in the "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" sense. "Pale Shelter" is better tho.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:21 (twenty years ago) link

obv. the red-hot Xmas #1 favourite being "Have A Protein Christmas" by The Fall, out 8th December.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:24 (twenty years ago) link

There's somethign about the TFF version that elevates it WAY above the cover, which is striving way too hard for singer-songwriter acoustic-profundity.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:52 (twenty years ago) link

hm. my view of t4f is shaped by 'sowing the seeds' and the v self-important ppl in my life who have liked them. the cover i don't have prob with. it works so well in the film. many fine things try too hard.

― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:56 (twenty years ago) link

(Stupid question approaching)
Why's the cover coming out as a single now?
(End stupid question)

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

it's not a stupid question - i think it's the Haskell Effect i.e. Radio 2 pick up on it and several DJs start playing it, picking up more listener enquiries and requests in the process...eventually it gets the full release and crashes the top ten the only time of year it possibly could.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:21 (twenty years ago) link

Gary Jules' cover of Mad World from the soundtrack to Donnie Darko, and the Dark Horse for the Xmas #1. Released as single on 15/12, on R1's B-List. Expect them to be getting behind it big style.

For a track that's nearly two years old, being released as a single next month seems a little weird. Crazy UK music charts.

I guess "United States of Whatever" is worse, though. It goes all the way back to 1998.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:34 (twenty years ago) link

'Cafe Del Mar' and 'Mundian Te Bach Ke' to thread too

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

I guess "United States of Whatever" is worse, though. It goes all the way back to 1998.

kidding me?! 'donnie darko' the film only came out in the uk in october 2002.

― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:56 (twenty years ago) link

i'm thinking Radio 2 could get Broadcast in the charts

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link

capital were v excited about this too, i was in the gym just now and they made quite a big thing of it. i was like "wtf?! didn't donnie darko come out like a year ago?!". it wasn't really gym music, either.

apparently the alex parks version is similar to the gary jules one. i haven't heard it though.

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

i'm thinking Radio 2 could get Broadcast in the charts

Damn straight. In fact, if they got it right, R2 could get Ladytron, Baxendale, Cursor Miner and Maximilian Hecker in the charts.

I'm loving the Gary Jules thing, and I'm glad it's finally being released as a single - I think they've been clever to hold it back til now (if that's what they've actually done - to be honest it sounds more like it never occurred to anyone to release it til radio picked up on it) and I wish it well.

Also, my friend James directed the video, which I've not seen yet, but still, mad props to him for choosing it cuz he liked the song and then seeing it accidentally a-listed and playlisted all over the shop!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

ugh, fuck that cover, the orig. is the bomb.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

Neither version has anything on "Head Over Heels."

― nabiscothingy, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

good point.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

Nabisco wins.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

The Alex Parks version is alright. Nothing more.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 06:10 (twenty years ago) link

It is. The other one isn't.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 09:44 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

up yours

― Creo, Sunday, 27 March 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Leave it, Gary.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 27 March 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

"Mad World" now being used in a tacobell spot

i saw it at the movies

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 July 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link

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