When was tears for fears mad world released

Erlend Bratland. Adam Lambert. The Hit Co. Hanne Boel featuring Carsten Dahl. The Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones. Stephanie Hernandez. Syndicate 17 feat. Susan Hyatt. Susan Boyle. Mile 21 a cappella. Colton Parrott. Peter Reimer. Jeff Hall. Kerry Beyer. Tonya Steiner. Graveyard of Souls. The Harmonics [US]. Luc Arbogast. Mylene Farmer en duo avec Gary Jules.

Jasmine Thompson. Gill Manly. Gee Gee Kettel. Night Bird. Noise Generator. Julia Westlin. Scott Erickson. Taylor John Williams. Dean Dyson. Danielle Reich. Peter Hollens. Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox feat. Mary Koth Lutton. The track was composed by Roland Orzabel on an acoustic guitar when he was just 19 years old.

After suggesting that Curt Smith should sing it instead of himself, according to Orzabel "suddenly it sounded fabulous". The track was originally created as a B-side to the single "Pale Shelter". However, the record company suggested it should be recorded as a single. Michael Andrews and Gary Jules took their haunting, downtempo version of the song to 1 in the UK in December , and it became an International hit.

Personally, I do prefer the cover version, although I do also acknowledge who created the song's melody and lyrics in the first place.

List of 80s Music Video Pages. Click here to view video. Mad World was easy for me to sing because I could relate to Roland's lyrics. We were both the middle of three sons and had been brought up by single mothers with absent fathers. My father always worked away, and died when I was 17, but I hated him by that point. It hit me later in life, but back then I was teenage and angry.

The song was the perfect platform. It worked better with my voice because it's more melancholic, darker. These were amazingly produced, very rhythmic records that made us want to try something similar. Access to synthesisers gave us the chance to experiment. Mad World's distinctive percussion intro was played on a Roland CR drum machine. We first recorded it at twice the speed, but it sounded great slowed down.

We released Mad World as a single because we felt the music press would like it. But it was also supposed to just give us a foothold for the next two singles, which were more commercial. We didn't expect it to become a hit. All sorts of people have covered it Gary Jules sang "enlarging your world" at one bit, but the correct lyric is actually "Halargian world".

Producer Chris Hughes had a running joke in the studio about this made-up planet and a catchphrase: "Oh, that's so Halargian. It is a dark song but it brings back happy memories. 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 who's having the birthday party in the video is my mum. Interviews by Dave Simpson.