Features/f5/e8/4e/dj.sjddcfmm.jpg/1200x630bb.jpg' alt='Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair Remastered Youtube' title='Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair Remastered Youtube' />Mad World WikipediaMad World is a 1. British band Tears for Fears. Written by Roland Orzabal and sung by bassist Curt Smith, it was the bands third single release and first chart hit, reaching number 3 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1. Both Mad World and its B side, Ideas as Opiates, appeared on the bands debut LP The Hurting 1. Mad World has since been covered by various artists, most notably by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules for the soundtrack of the film Donnie Darko in 2. This version was a UK number one hit and won Orzabal his second Ivor Novello Award in 2. BackgroundeditMad World was originally written on acoustic guitar when Orzabal was 1. Duran Durans Girls on Film. After a few false starts with Orzabal on vocals, he suggested Smith sing it and suddenly it sounded fabulous. Mad World was intended to be the B side for the bands second single Pale Shelter You Dont Give Me Love, but their record company stated that Mad World could be a single in its own right. The band then opted to re record Mad World with producers Ross Cullum and Chris Hughes, a former drummer with Adam and the Ants. That came when I lived above a pizza restaurant in Bath and I could look out onto the centre of the city. Not that Bath is very mad  I should have called it Bourgeois World6 Roland OrzabalMad World was the first single off the finished album. The intention was to gain attention from it and wed hopefully build up a little following. The Hollywood Reporter is your source for breaking news about Hollywood and entertainment, including movies, TV, reviews and industry blogs. In 2006, Songs from the Big Chair was reissued again by Universal Music, this time as a 2disc Deluxe Edition with additional Bsides and rarities added, expanding. Cancer is the worst. And, maybe thanks to Movember and pink consumer goods, were all extremely aware. Too aware. Because weve gotten it drilled into our heads. Mad World is a 1982 song by the British band Tears for Fears. Written by Roland Orzabal and sung by bassist Curt Smith, it was the bands third single release and. Vinyl Revinyl is dedicated to bringing records, vinyl LPs back from the dead. Why Because they sound better. Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair Full Album 1985 Duration 4201. Yuri Aguiar 35,796 views. Music is essential at a wedding, especially at the reception. But some songs are just way too clicheor earravagingand people are tired of hearing them. These. We had no idea that it would become a hit. Nor did the record company. Curt Smith. Curt Smiths ad lib in the songs final chorus resulted in a mondegreen. The Boxing King. Smith clarified the actual lyric in 2. With Mad Worlds again resurgent popularity, Im getting asked more frequently about the last line on the album version from The Hurting, a line which I occasionally also sing in concert. The actual line is Halargian world. Not illogical world, raunchy young world, enlarging your world, or a number of other interesting if not amusing guesses. The real story Halarge was an imaginary planet invented by either Chris Hughes or Ross Cullum during the recording of The Hurting. I added it as a joke during the lead vocal session, and we kept it. And there you have it. Curt Smith. MeaningeditThe song was influenced by the theories of Arthur Janov, author of The Primal Scream, and the lyric the dreams in which Im dying are the best Ive ever had suggests that dreams of intense experiences such as death will be the best at releasing tension. Song versionseditThe 7 version of Mad World is the same mix of the song found on The Hurting. The song had only one remix on its initial release, the World Remix that was featured on a 7 double single. This mix is very similar to the album version, with the most notable differences being the additional echo added to the intro and middle sections and the subtraction of a subtle keyboard part from the bridge. A later remix by noted British music producer Afterlife was featured on the 2. Tears for Fears greatest hits collection Tears Roll Down Greatest Hits 8. Ideas as Opiates is a song that originally served as the B side to the Mad World single, and was later re recorded for inclusion on The Hurting. The song takes its name from a chapter title in Arthur Janovs book Prisoners of Pain and features lyrics related to the concept of primal therapy. The song is musically sparse, featuring just a piano, drum machine, and saxophone. An alternative version of this song titled Saxophones as Opiates was included as a B side on the 1. Thats the chapter from Janov, and its really a reference to peoples mindsets, the way that the ego can suppress so much nasty information about oneself  the gentle way that the mind can fool oneself into thinking everything is great. Roland Orzabal. It really was all about that kind of thing  the psychological answer to religion being the opiate of the masses, whereas we thought ideas were, more than anything else. Curt Smith. Music videoedit. Curt Smith in the Mad World music video. The promotional video for Mad World was filmed in late summer 1. It was Tears for Fears first music video, and features a gloomy looking Curt Smith staring out of a window while Roland Orzabal dances outside on a lakeside jetty. A brief party scene in the video features friends and family of the band, including Smiths mother as well as his then wife Lynne. According to Curt Smith, When we made the video in a country estate on the cheap, we bussed all our friends and family up from Bath and had a fun day. The woman whos having the birthday party in the video is my mum. The music video was directed by Clive Richardson who was notable for his work at that time with Depeche Mode. Track listingsedit7 Mercury IDEA3 United Kingdom 8. United StatesMad World 3 3. Ideas as Opiates 3 5. Mercury IDEA3 Ireland 6. Australia, Europe TOS 1. South AfricaMad World World Remix 3 4. Ideas as Opiates 3 5. Mercury IDEA3. 3 United KingdomMad World 3 3. Mad World World Remix 3 4. Suffer the Children Remix 4 1. Ideas as Opiates 3 5. Mercury IDEA3. 12 United Kingdom 6. EuropeMad World 3 3. Ideas as Opiates 3 5. Saxophones as Opiates 3 5. Charts and certificationseditMichael Andrews and Gary Jules versioneditMad World achieved a second round of success 2. Michael Andrews and Gary Jules for the film Donnie Darko 2. While the Tears for Fears version featured synthesisers and heavy percussion, the AndrewsJules version was stripped down instead of a full musical backing, it used only a set of piano chords, a mellotron imitating a cello, very light touches of electric piano, and modest use of a vocoder on the chorus. Their version was originally released on CD in 2. DVD release finally prompted Jules and Andrews to issue the song as a proper single. It was released through Sanctuary Records on 1. December 2. 00. 3, in time for the race for the UKs Christmas number one, beating Christmas Time Dont Let the Bells End by The Darkness to take the title the following week. BackgroundeditFor the soundtrack to the film Donnie Darko 2. Richard Kelly commissioned Michael Andrews, a San Diego musician and television and film composer who had worked as a member of a range of bands, including The Origin with Gary Jules whose two solo albums he had produced, and The Greyboy Allstars. Kelly said he was confident that Andrews could do the job I met with Michael and I just knew right away that he was really, really talented and that he could come up with a really original score. He would allow me to be in there and be really kind of editorial with how I wanted the score to be. Andrews relocated to Los Angeles to work on the film between October and December 2. As Andrews states, the low budget for the project encouraged him to play a diverse range of instruments for the soundtrack The film was pretty low budget so my portion of the money was pretty thin. I couldnt hire anyone, it was just me. I played everything piano, mellotron, mini marimba, xylophone, ukulele, organ. I also brought in two female vocalists Sam Shelton and Tori Haberman. But no guitar because Richard said no guitar or drums he just wasnt into it. I was down with that Ive played guitar my whole life.