Tears for Fears "Mad World" MP3

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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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