woohoo! "Mad World" back in the charts ..

Jason · 13/10/10 - 15:36

got the midweek chart rundown on radio 1 and Gary Jules' 'mad world' is back in the charts at number 18 ..

so maybe x-factor can do some good after all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtpY5_HASM8

silentNate · 13/10/10 - 15:45

JasonWatkins wrote: »

got the midweek chart rundown on radio 1 and the original 'mad world' is back in the charts at number 18 ..

so maybe x-factor can do some good after all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtpY5_HASM8

The 'original' Mad World is by Tears For Fears, you appear to be linking to the Gary Jules version

:mad:

Jason · 13/10/10 - 15:48

silentNate wrote: »

The 'original' Mad World is by Tears For Fears, you appear to be linking to the Gary Jules version :mad:

Yes, of course .. my mistake .. the original cover .. technically

edited original post for accuracy

[Deleted User] · 13/10/10 - 16:44

I really like the cover of this song by Gary Jules - I first heard it on Donnie Darko.

Richieboy87 · 13/10/10 - 17:10

Oh that's good

joan13 · 13/10/10 - 17:14

I love this version by Adam Lambert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g7YUqN-7AU

AdamDowds · 13/10/10 - 20:36

Gary Jules' cover is really depressing, I am just annoyed by it.

It should be the original by Tears for Fears back in the chart, granted it's my least favourite song by them, but it's still THEIR song.

SickPuppy21 · 13/10/10 - 20:44

joan13 wrote: »

I love this version by Adam Lambert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g7YUqN-7AU

Prefer Aidens, more darker, and isnt vocally showing off pointlessly.

rachelgata · 13/10/10 - 22:26

The original Tears for Fears version is the only version I ever want to hear, personally. Why can't that be back in the charts?

eugenespeed · 13/10/10 - 22:29

rachelgata wrote: »

The original Tears for Fears version is the only version I ever want to hear, personally. Why can't that be back in the charts?

Not enough people have bought it, simple reason really.

Shame, as I much prefer the original myself.

silentNate · 13/10/10 - 22:29

AdamDowds wrote: »

Gary Jules' cover is really depressing, I am just annoyed by it.

It should be the original by Tears for Fears back in the chart, granted it's my least favourite song by them, but it's still THEIR song.

I agree, there are at least five other songs by TfF I can think of off the top of my head that are better than Mad World

performingmonk · 13/10/10 - 23:01

The Gary Jules version works really well in the film Donnie Darko (it was done specifically for the film and only released as a single a couple of years later), as does the other Tears For Fears song, Head Over Heels, which plays over that brilliant long school sequence.

RussellIan · 13/10/10 - 23:03

One of the worst number ones of all time. His drawlingly Americanised, disingenuously 'timorous' voice combined with the turgid anti-music funereal accompaniment just makes me wish someone would smack him the fark right out of his enervating misery.

boddism · 14/10/10 - 00:25

RussellIan wrote: »

One of the worst number ones of all time. His drawlingly Americanised, disingenuously 'timorous' voice combined with the turgid anti-music funereal accompaniment just makes me wish someone would smack him the fark right out of his enervating misery.

Yes, I didnt like it.... was a bit pretentious and worthy:rolleyes:

[Deleted User] · 14/10/10 - 01:03

SickPuppy21 wrote: »

Prefer Aidens, more darker, and isnt vocally showing off pointlessly.

As he is competing in a singing competition any vocal 'showing off' is hardly pointless

[Deleted User] · 14/10/10 - 08:35

RussellIan wrote: »

One of the worst number ones of all time. His drawlingly Americanised, disingenuously 'timorous' voice combined with the turgid anti-music funereal accompaniment just makes me wish someone would smack him the fark right out of his enervating misery.

You're not too keen then:D

[Deleted User] · 14/10/10 - 13:30

gertrude wrote: »

You're not too keen then:D

Wasn't it a Christmas number 1 as well?

[Deleted User] · 14/10/10 - 13:57

performingmonk wrote: »

The Gary Jules version works really well in the film Donnie Darko (it was done specifically for the film and only released as a single a couple of years later), as does the other Tears For Fears song, Head Over Heels, which plays over that brilliant long school sequence.

I was about to post almost this exact same thing. It was done as part of the score and in the context of the film works fantastically. As a song in its own right I music say I feel that the years since its recording have not been kind to it.

I remember after seeing Donnie Darko I spent a bloody fortune getting an imported version of the score (literally the score, as opposed to the soundtrack which wasn't released for about a year I think, when the films cult classic status had become clear) It was at the time the only way to get the song. A few months later it was released as a single which I could have bought for a few quid.

I was gutted. The original TFF version is brilliant, as it the soundtrack of Donnie Darko generally.

[Deleted User] · 14/10/10 - 13:59

CABLEDUDE wrote: »

Wasn't it a Christmas number 1 as well?

If I remember rightly this was the first "anti-christmas" number one, now a year doesn't go by without a campaign to get something not very festive to number one at christmas.

themadmonk · 14/10/10 - 16:26

I prefer the Gary Jules version to the Tears For Fears original, its one of those rare instances where a cover version outstrips the original.

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