"Mad World" is a song by the British band Tears for Fears. Written by Roland Orzabal and sung by bassist Curt Smith, it was the band's third single release and first chart hit, reaching #3 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1982. Both Mad World and its B-side, Ideas As Opiates, would turn up on the band's debut LP The Hurting the following year. The song would eventually become Tears for Fears' first international hit, reaching the Top 40 in several countries between 1982 and 1983.

Two decades later, the song made a popular resurgence when it was covered in a much slower, minimalist style by composers Michael Andrews and Gary Jules for the soundtrack to the movie Donnie Darko in 2001, and then again in the hit video game "Gears of War". This version reached #1 in the UK in December 2003, and also became an international hit.

Background[link]

Mad World began life as the intended B-side for Tears for Fears' second single "Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)". The band instead decided it may be something people would like to hear on the radio and held back its release, waiting to issue the song as a single in its own right after re-recording it with Chris Hughes, a former drummer with Adam and the Ants.^[1]

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 World"!^[2]

—Roland Orzabal

Mad World was the first single off the finished album. The intention was to gain attention from it and we'd hopefully build up a little following. We had no idea that it would become a hit. Nor did the record company.^[2]

—Curt Smith

Curt Smith's ad lib in the song's final chorus resulted in a mondegreen. Smith clarified the actual lyric in 2010:

With Mad World's again-resurgent popularity, I’m 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.^[3]

—Curt Smith

Meanings[link]

^[2] The song was influenced by the theories of Arthur Janov, author of The Primal Scream^{[citation needed]}. The lyric "the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" suggests that dreams of intense experiences such as death will be the best at releasing tension,.^[4]

Lyrically the song is pretty loose. It throws together a lot of different images to paint a picture without saying anything specific about the world.^[2]

—Roland Orzabal

It's very much a voyeur's song. It's looking out at a mad world from the eyes of a teenager.^[2]

—Curt Smith

Song versions[link]

The 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 2005 reissue of the Tears for Fears greatest hits collection Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92).

B-side[link]

Ideas As Opiates is a song that originally served as the B-side to the Mad World single. It would later be re-recorded for inclusion on The Hurting. The song takes its name from a chapter title in Arthur Janov's 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 12" single and is mostly instrumental.

That's the chapter from Janov, and it's really a reference to people's 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.^[2]

—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.^[2]

—Curt Smith

Music video[link]

The promotional clip for Mad World, filmed in late summer 1982, was Tears for Fears' first music video. It features a gloomy looking Curt Smith staring out a window, while Roland Orzabal performs a bizarre dance outside on a lakeside jetty. A brief party scene in the video featured friends and family of the band, including Smith's then-wife Lynn.

The clip was directed by Clive Richardson who was notable for his work at that time with Depeche Mode.

Track listings[link]

7": Mercury / IDEA3 (United Kingdom) / 812 213-7 (United States)

1. Mad World (3:32)
2. Ideas As Opiates (3:54)

7": Mercury / IDEA3 (Ireland) / 6059 568 (Australia, Europe) / TOS 1411 (South Africa)

1. Mad World [World Remix] (3:30)
2. Ideas As Opiates (3:54)

7" Double Pack: Mercury / IDEA33 (United Kingdom)

1. Mad World (3:32)
2. Mad World [World Remix] (3:30)
3. Suffer The Children [Remix] (4:15)
4. Ideas As Opiates (3:54)

12": Mercury / IDEA312 (United Kingdom) / 6400 677 (Europe)

1. Mad World (3:32)
2. Ideas As Opiates (3:54)
3. Saxophones As Opiates (3:54)

Chart positions[link]

Michael Andrews and Gary Jules version[link]

Mad World would achieve a second round of success beginning almost twenty years later, after it was covered by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules for the film Donnie Darko (2001). While the Tears for Fears version featured synthesizers and heavy percussion, the Andrews/Jules version was stripped down; instead of a full musical backing, it used only a set of piano chords, a cello, and modest use of a vocoder on the chorus. Their version was originally released on CD in 2002 on the film's soundtrack, but an increasing cult following spawned by the movie's DVD release finally prompted Jules and Andrews to issue the song as a proper single. The release was a success in late 2003, becoming the Number One single over the Christmas holiday in the UK, a feat Tears for Fears themselves never accomplished. The music video, directed by Michel Gondry, has since been very popular on YouTube, with its most popular posting garnering over 41 million views as of December 2011 ^[6]. It is included on the DVD compilation Michel Gondry 2: More Videos (Before and After DVD 1). The song was later included in the commercial to the videogame Gears of War.^[7]

Track listings[link]

Chart positions[link]

Year-end[link]

Chart positions for Adam Lambert's version[link]

Popular culture[link]

• In late 2006, a condensed version of the Andrews/Jules cover of Mad World was featured in the award-winning commercial for the video game Gears of War.^[12]
• In addition to its usage in numerous advertisements and fan-made YouTube videos, the Andrews/Jules cover has also become a popular choice for background music in television dramas, having appeared in the following series among others: Being Human (U.S.), Brothers & Sisters, Cold Case, CSI, Dead Like Me, Smallville, The OC, and The Mentalist. The Lambert version has appeared in ER, FlashForward, General Hospital, and House. Curt Smith sang this song on the television show Psych.
• It is used on Broadway as the closing number in Butley starring Nathan Lane (2006).
• The Andrews/Jules version was used in the July 28, 2010, episode of So You Think You Can Dance by choreographer Stacey Tookey in a routine about homelessness, performed by Billy Bell and Ade Obayomi.
• The 2011 game Gears of War 3 contains a distinct instrumental cover of Gary Jules' version.
• UFC fighter Chris Leben used the Gary Jules version as his walkout theme at UFC 138.
• An instrumental cover of the Andrews/Jules version was used in one of the scenes of the 2011 Philippine film Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story.
• Cleveland from the animated Fox television program The Cleveland Show sang "Mad World" for the first 6 minutes of the show that aired April 1, 2012.

Other versions and covers[link]

In addition to the Andrews/Jules version, Mad World has been recorded over the years by the following artists:

• French artist Nicola Sirkis, frontman of the new wave band Indochine, on his solo album Dans La Lune... (1992)
• American industrial rock band Kill Switch...Klick, on the Cleopatra Records compilation New Wave Goes To Hell (1998)
• German DJ Pulsedriver's popular remix of Nu Romantix's cover, on the compilation album Dos Or Die Fresh Cuts (2001)
• American alternative rock band Finch, on their EP Rolling Stone Acoustic Session (2002)
• British singer-songwriter Alex Parks, on her debut album, Introduction (2003)
• American industrial act Brainclaw, (2004)
• American metalcore band Evergreen Terrace, on their album Writer's Block (2004)
• German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen, on their live DVD Rock am Ring 2004 (2004)
• Polish gothic rock band Closterkeller, on their EP Reghina (2004)
• Australian art rock band The Red Paintings, on their EP Walls (2005)
• German DJ Jan Wayne, on his single Mad World (2005)
• American singer-songwriter Sara Hickman, on her double album Motherlode (2006)
• Canadian rock bassist Ken Tizzard, on his album Quiet Storey House... An Introduction (2006)
• Canadian ska band The Makeshift Heroes of Toronto, Ontario (no longer together), on their EP "Last Call" (2006)
• German a cappella group Wise Guys, on their album Radio (2006)
• Australian Idol (season 5) contestant Ben McKenzie (2007)
• American dark cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls featuring Trash McSweeney, on their live DVD Live at the Roundhouse (2007)
• Canadian folk-singer Tara MacLean, on her EP Signs of Life (2007) and her album Wake (2008)
• German vocal band Gregorian, on their album Masters of Chant Chapter VI (2007)
• Italian dark wave band SPECTRA*paris, a side project of Kirlian Camera, on their album Dead Models Society (2007)
• Israeli actress/singer Melanie Peres, on the soundtrack to the movie Lost Islands (2008)
• Norwegian singer Erlend Bratland, on his debut album True Colors (2008)
• Swedish blackened death metal band Zonaria, on their second album The Cancer Empire (2008)
• Australian Idol (season 7) contestant Nathan Brake (2009)
• Italian singer-songwriter Elisa, on her sixth album Heart (2009)
• Adam Lambert (as a contestant) during American Idol in 2009 and an acoustic rendition on his Acoustic Live! EP. A recording of this performance was subsequently released as a digital single and reached the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 in 2009.
• British DJ Andy Hunter released a remix of Mad World as a single
• American operatic soprano Renée Fleming, on her 2010 album Dark Hope
• 2010 UK X Factor contestant Aiden Grimshaw during the first live show.
• Danish producer Michael Parsberg featuring Safri Duo and Isam B (2010)
• German indie rock band Blackmail (band), released as free download on their website (2006)
• Italian singer Marco Mengoni,on his live album Re matto live (2010)
• Managing editor of Boing Boing, Rob Beschizza along with Heather Beschizza created a chip tunes version in 2011 Classic Arcade Game Deaths
• American pianist Louis Durra, in an instrumental trio version released on Mad World EP and Arrogant Doormats (2011).
• Contestants from The Glee Project, a musical reality show, performed Mad World in the third episode (2011).
• The late Taiwanese singer Ah Sang covered the song in Mandarin on her second album Loneliness in Singing (2005).
• Susan Boyle covered the song on her third studio album Someone To Watch Over Me released in 2011.
• Ida Long did the song for Swedish promotion of the TV series Mad Men in 2011.

Samples and quotations[link]

• Prozak samples the song on the track American Princess, from the Strange Music compilation Strictly Strange 08 (2008).
• British dubstep artist The Bug, with vocalist Warrior Queen, included the song Insane on the album London Zoo (2008). The song ends with a quote from Mad World.
• The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps featured the track in their 2nd place 2010 show, also entitled Mad World.
• Orbital sampled the song on The Moebius, the first song on their debut album.

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Boston Globe article on the Andrews/Jules cover

Look up mad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Mad or MAD may refer to:

• Infection with rabies, from the Latin term for madness
• Moroccan dirham, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Morocco
• The state of having anger
• The state of insanity
• A variant of the Hindi-Urdu word for alcohol, madhu, pronounced with a soft "d" and cognate with the word mead

Title[link]

• A variant of the Serer word for king, Maad such as Maad a Sinig and Maad Saloum (king of Sine and Saloum respectively)

Businesses and companies[link]

• MAD Studio, an architectural firm

Media and entertainment[link]

Literature and publications[link]

• Mad (magazine), an American humor magazine

Television and video[link]

• Mad (TV series), a television series on Cartoon Network based on the magazine
• MAD TV (Greece), a Greek music channel
• MADtv, an American sketch comedy television series

Music[link]

• Mad (band), a rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina
• "Mad" (song), a 2008 song by Ne-Yo
• "Mad", a song by Magnetic Man from the album Magnetic Man

Places[link]

• Mad (village), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
• Mad River (disambiguation), various rivers
• Madrid Barajas Airport's IATA airport code

Acronym[link]

• Magnetic anomaly detector, a scientific instrument and anti-submarine warfare detection device
• M.A.D., a fictional evil organization led by Dr. Claw from the cartoon series Inspector Gadget
• Mandibular advancement device, an appliance worn in the mouth to treat obstructive sleep apnea or snoring
• Market Abuse Directive, European company law on insider dealing and market manipulation
• Mean absolute difference, a measure of statistical dispersion
• Median absolute deviation, a statistical measure of variability, more resistant to outliers than other measures
• Meg and Dia, American indie rock band
• MAD (programming language), for Michigan Algorithm Decoder, a computer programming language
• MIFARE Application Directory, a data structure on MIFARE contactless chips
• Militärischer Abschirmdienst, the Military Counterintelligence division of the German Army
• MPEG Audio Decoder, an audio decompression software
• Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator, astronomical method of using multiple guide stars and deformable mirrors to sense and correct for the distortions produced by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere
• Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion, a technique used in X-ray crystallography
• Museum of Arts & Design, located in New York City
• Mutual assured destruction, a doctrine of military strategy
• Mastertronic's Added Dimension (or "Mastertronic Added Dimension"), a sub-label owned by defunct UK software publisher Mastertronic
• Make A Difference, an Indian NGO
• Mothers against decapentaplegic, a protein of the SMAD family

See also[link]

• List of people known as the Mad

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"The Blue Marble" photograph of Earth, taken from Apollo 17

The flag of the World Health Organization combines a modern world map (azimuthal equidistant projection) with the Rod of Asclepius, in origin a symbol of the axis mundi^[1]

World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth.^[2]

In a philosophical context it may refer to: (1) the whole of the physical Universe, or (2) an ontological world (see world disclosure). In a theological context, world usually refers to the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred. The "end of the world" refers to scenarios of the final end of human history, often in religious contexts.

World history is commonly understood as spanning the major geopolitical developments of about five millennia, from the first civilizations to the present.

World population is the sum of all human populations at any time; similarly, world economy is the sum of the economies of all societies (all countries), especially in the context of globalization. Terms like world championship, gross world product, world flags etc. also imply the sum or combination of all current-day sovereign states.

In terms such as world religion, world language, and world war, world suggests international or intercontinental scope without necessarily implying participation of the entire world.

In terms such as world map and world climate, world is used in the sense detached from human culture or civilization, referring to the planet Earth physically.

Etymology and usage[link]

The English word world comes from the Old English weorold (-uld), weorld, worold (-uld, -eld), a compound of wer "man" and eld "age," which thus means roughly "Age of Man."^[3] The Old English is a reflex of the Common Germanic *wira-alđiz, also reflected in Old Saxon werold, Old High German weralt, Old Frisian warld and Old Norse verǫld (whence the Icelandic veröld).^[4]

The corresponding word in Latin is mundus, literally "clean, elegant", itself a loan translation of Greek cosmos "orderly arrangement." While the Germanic word thus reflects a mythological notion of a "domain of Man" (compare Midgard), presumably as opposed to the divine sphere on the one hand and the chthonic sphere of the underworld on the other, the Greco-Latin term expresses a notion of creation as an act of establishing order out of chaos.

'World' distinguishes the entire planet or population from any particular country or region: world affairs pertain not just to one place but to the whole world, and world history is a field of history that examines events from a global (rather than a national or a regional) perspective. Earth, on the other hand, refers to the planet as a physical entity, and distinguishes it from other planets and physical objects.

'World' can also be used attributively, to mean 'global', 'relating to the whole world', forming usages such as world community or world canonical texts.^[5]

By extension, a 'world' may refer to any planet or heavenly body, especially when it is thought of as inhabited, especially in the context of science fiction or futurology.

'World', in original sense, when qualified, can also refer to a particular domain of human experience.

• The world of work describes paid work and the pursuit of career, in all its social aspects, to distinguish it from home life and academic study.
• The fashion world describes the environment of the designers, fashion houses and consumers that make up the fashion industry.
• historically, the New World vs. the Old World, referring to the parts of the world colonized in the wake of the age of discovery. Now mostly used in zoology and botany, as New World monkey.

Philosophy[link]

The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1503) shows the "garden" of mundane pleasures flanked by Paradise and Hell. The exterior panel shows the world before the appearance of humanity, depicted as a disc enclosed in a sphere.

In philosophy, the term world has several possible meanings. In some contexts, it refers to everything that makes up reality or the physical universe. In others, it can mean have a specific ontological sense (see world disclosure). While clarifying the concept of world has arguably always been among the basic tasks of Western philosophy, this theme appears to have been raised explicitly only at the start of the twentieth century^[6] and has been the subject of continuous debate. The question of what the world is has by no means been settled.

Parmenides

The traditional interpretation of Parmenides' work is that he argued that the every-day perception of reality of the physical world (as described in doxa) is mistaken, and that the reality of the world is 'One Being' (as described in aletheia): an unchanging, ungenerated, indestructible whole.

Plato

In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato distingues between forms and ideas and imagines two distinct worlds : the sensible world and the intelligible world.

Hegel

In Hegel's philosophy of history, the expression Weltgeschichte ist Weltgericht (World History is a tribunal that judges the World) is used to assert the view that History is what judges men, their actions and their opinions. Science is born from the desire to transform the World in relation to Man; its final end is technical application.

Schopenhauer

The World as Will and Representation is the central work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer saw the human will as our one window to the world behind the representation; the Kantian thing-in-itself. He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible, since the rest of the relationship between representation and thing-in-itself could be understood by analogy to the relationship between human will and human body.

Wittgenstein

Two definitions that were both put forward in the 1920s, however, suggest the range of available opinion. "The world is everything that is the case," wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein in his influential Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in 1922. This definition would serve as the basis of logical positivism, with its assumption that there is exactly one world, consisting of the totality of facts, regardless of the interpretations that individual people may make of them.

Heidegger

Martin Heidegger, meanwhile, argued that "the surrounding world is different for each of us, and notwithstanding that we move about in a common world".^[7] The world, for Heidegger, was that into which we are always already "thrown" and with which we, as beings-in-the-world, must come to terms. His conception of "world disclosure" was most notably elaborated in his 1927 work Being and Time.

Freud

In response, Freud proposed that we do not move about in a common world, but a common thought process. He believed that all the actions of a person are motivated by one thing: lust. This led to numerous theories about reactionary consciousness.

Other

Some philosophers, often inspired by David Lewis, argue that metaphysical concepts such as possibility, probability and necessity are best analyzed by comparing the world to a range of possible worlds; a view commonly known as modal realism.

Religion and mythology[link]

It has been suggested that World (theology) be merged into this article or section. (Discuss) Proposed since July 2010.

Mythological cosmologies often depict the world as centered around an axis mundi and delimited by a boundary such as a world ocean, a world serpent or similar.

See also[link]

Environment portal

• Globe
• List of sovereign states
• Universe

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: World

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: World

• World entry at The World Factbook

Gary Jules
Gary Jules performing live at the Hotel Café on December 9, 2008
Background information
Birth name	Gary Jules Aguirre, Jr.
Born	(1969-03-19) March 19, 1969 (age 43) San Diego, California, United States
Genres	Rock, folk, alternative rock
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, piano, mandolin, harmonica, ukulele
Website	www.garyjules.com

Gary Jules (born March 19, 1969 as Gary Jules Aguirre, Jr.) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his cover version of the Tears For Fears classic "Mad World", which Gary recorded with friend Michael Andrews for the film Donnie Darko. It became the UK Christmas Number One single of 2003. Since then, Gary's version has been used on popular American TV shows, in a commercial for the critically acclaimed video game Gears of War, an episode of CSI: Las Vegas, and a Season 5 episode of the medical drama House.

Some of Gary's early projects/bands were The Ivory Knights, Our Town Pansies, Woodenfish, Kofi, The Origin, Invisible, No poetry, and Heroes and Heroin.^{[citation needed]} Gary's 2003 residency at the Los Angeles Hotel Café helped develop the venue as a successful singer/songwriter venue for other artists such as Gary.

Songs[link]

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Gary recorded the song "Mad World" for the film Donnie Darko and later released Mad World as a single in December 2003. Gary's version of Mad World was a huge success becoming the Christmas No. 1 in the UK. Gary's version of Mad World has also become a popular choice for background music in numerous television dramas. Gary's version of Mad World was used repeatedly during James Franco's acting stint on General Hospital, playing the part of a homicidal artist named Franco. In one episode of the television show Without a Trace, Gary's version of Mad World was played during the last part of the episode and into the credits. Gary's version of Mad World was also featured in the TV series Smallville, and during the beginning of the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode, the trailer for The Crazies,"^[1] as well as in The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps' 2010 Production "Mad World." Most recently, Gary's version of Mad World was used on the new series Stolen voices, Buried secrets from Investigation Discovery and also in Silent Witness episode 61 (3rd episode of season 10), part one of Terminus. Gary's version of Mad World was also used to accompany images of the Nautilus in episode 3 of the documentary "The Great Barrier Reef".

American Idol contestant Adam Lambert sang Gary's version of "Mad World" for the top 8 performance, which was highly praised by the judges and viewers, and repeated Gary's version of the song in a different dramatic presentation for the top 2 performance, as well as during the American Idols Live! 2009 tour. Following the performance, Gary's version of "Mad World" shot up to #11 on the iTunes store.

Gary's song "Gone Daddy" is based upon Gary's family and Gary relocating to North Carolina. When Gary was living in L.A., a neighbor of Gary's was gunned down at night. While the police were investigating the shooting, Gary approached one of the officers and explained that Gary's child was trying to take a nap. Gary asked if the officer knew when they would be finished. The officer told Gary he did not know, but that Gary could always leave L.A. So Gary took the officer's advice, and Gary left.

Gary's song "Wichita" was inspired by a class Gary took at UCLA regarding Native American history. There was a story that Gary read about how the Native Americans followed the buffalo around the nation to survive, and when the "white men" finished the intercontinental railroad, the buffalo started to head back south. When they came upon the railroad, the buffalo would not cross it, and millions of them died. Gary has only spent one night in the actual city of Wichita.

Gary has stated that of all of Gary's songs, "No Poetry" is possibly Gary's favorite song Gary has written.^{[citation needed]} Gary's song "Something Else", which was also written by Gary as well as performed by Gary, was featured on the Season 5 episode "My Fallen Idol" of the NBC TV show Scrubs.

Gary also sang on the Esquimaux song "Honey & Dear" from their album Perfecto!.

Career[link]

Music videos[link]

• "Mad World" Directed by Michel Gondry (2004)
• "Broke Window"
• "Beautiful". Stop animation by Tony Clavelli. (2009)

Television appearances[link]

Appearances on television as himself

• RI:SE
  • Aired December 16, 2003
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
  • Episode #5.14 2003
• Top of the Pops
  • "Mad World" with Michael Andrews. Aired December 19, 2003
• Top of the Pops NL
  • Episode #1.165 2004
• Today with Des and Mel
  • Aired February 12, 2004
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  • Aired March 29, 2004
• XETV Fox Rox
  • April 8, 2004
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks
  • Episode #14.7 2004
• SWR3 Ringfrei
  • "Mad World"
• Last Call with Carson Daly
  • Aired June 5, 2007
• RTL German TV
  • Performed "Mad World" Aired January 22, 2010

Television placements[link]

• CBS CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  • ”Mad World” (Season 1, episode 1-Pilot. Aired October 6, 2000.)
• The WB Smallville
  • “Mad World” (Season 2, episode 11-Visage. Aired January 14, 2003.)
• NBC Third Watch
  • ”Mad World” (Season 4, episode 15-Collateral Damage: Part 2. Aired February 10, 2003.)
• CBS Without A Trace
  • "Mad World" (Season 2, episode 1-The Bus. Aired September 25, 2003.)
• ABC Alias
  • ”Something Else” (Season 3, episode 3-Reunion. Aired October 12, 2003.)
• CBS CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  • ”Mad World” (Season 6, episode 2-Room Service. Aired September 29, 2005.)
• CBS CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  • ”Mad World” (Season 6, episode 14-Killer. Aired February 2, 2006.)
• NBC Scrubs
  • ”Something Else” (Season 5, episode 21-My Fallen Idol. Aired May 2, 2006.)
• CBS CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  • ”Mad World” (Season 6, episode 24-Way To Go. Aired May 18, 2006.)
• ABC Grey’s Anatomy
  • ”Falling Awake” (Season 3, episode 12-Six Days: Part 2. Aired January 4, 2007.)
• CBS Jericho
  • ”Mad World” (Season 1, episode 17-One Man’s Terrorist. Aired April 4, 2007.)
• ABC Brothers & Sisters
  • “Falling Awake” (Season 1, episode 21-Grapes of Wrath. Aired May 6, 2007.)
• TV3 Colors en sèrie (Spain)
  • ”Mad World” (Negre: El túnel al final de la llum.2007)
• A&E The Cleaner
  • ”Mad World” (Season 1, episode 6-To Catch a Fed. Aired August 26, 2008.)
• CW 90210
  • ”Greetings from the Side” (Season 1, episode 9-Secrets and Lies. Aired November 4, 2008.)
• NBC Friday Night Lights
  • ”Beautiful” (Season 3, episode 13-Tomorrow Blues. Aired January 14, 2009.)
• NBC-Life
  • "Been A Long Time" (Episode 215-I Heart Mom. Aired February 18, 2009)
• FX-Nip/Tuck
  • "Mad World" (Season 6, episode 2 Enigma Aired October 21, 2009.)
• CW Life Unexpected
  • ”Falling Awake” (Season 1, episode 1-Pilot. Aired January 18, 2010.)
• ABC Private Practice
  • ”The Old Days Are Gone” (Season 3, episode 12-Best Laid Plans. Aired January 21, 2010.)
• ABC General Hospital
  • ”Mad World”
    • Episode #1.11938 (19 November 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11939 (20 November 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11940 (23 November 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11941 (24 November 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11943 (30 November 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11945 (2 December 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11951 (10 December 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11952 (11 December 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11953 (14 December 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11956 (17 December 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11957 (18 December 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11958 (21 December 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11961 (28 December 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11962 (29 December 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11963 (30 December 2009) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11964 (4 January 2010) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11965 (5 January 2010) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11966 (6 January 2010) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11967 (7 January 2010) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11968 (8 January 2010) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11969 (11 January 2010) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11984 (1 February 2010) - Franco
    • Episode #1.11985 (2 February 2010) - Franco
• FOX So You Think You Can Dance?
  • ”Mad World" (alternate version) (Season 7, week 7. Aired July 28, 2010.)
• ID Investigation Discovery Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets
  • "Mad World (2011)
• SYFY Being Human
  • "Mad World" (Season 1, Episode 9 Aired March 2011.)

Movie placements[link]

• Digging to China (1998)
  • “Greetings from the Side”
• Donnie Darko (2001)
  • ”Mad World”
• Catch and Release (2006)
  • ”Pills”
• Lost Islands (2008)
  • "Mad World"
• Fireflies in the Garden (2008)
  • "Greetings from the Side"
• The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)
  • "Mad World"
• I Will Follow You Into The Dark (2010)
  • "Mad World"
• Bez naslova, Serbian movie (2011)
  • "Mad World"

Trailers[link]

• Xbox 360 Gears of War-trailer (2006)
  • "Mad World"
• The Cleaner (2008)
  • "Mad World"
• The Crazies-trailer (2009)
  • "Mad World"

Documentaries[link]

• Michel Gondry 2: More Videos (Before and After DVD 1) (2009)
  • appears in the "Mad World" segment
• Joseph Aguirre's "Next Year Country" (2009)
  • soundtrack music

Theater[link]

Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis refers to Gary Jules in his play The Little Flower of East Orange. This show, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and starring Ellen Burstyn, premiered at the Public Theater in New York on April 6, 2008. The songs “Goodnight Billie” and “Little Greenie” were featured in this production. In the acknowledgments section of the Faber and Faber, Inc. published version of the play, Guirgis writes, “SPECIAL THANKS TO GARY JULES FOR THE MUSIC.”^[2]

Act one, scene three:
NADINE hits Play. It’s “Little Greenie” by Gary Jules.
NADINE:Okay...One time, I was gonna kill myself, but then I played this Gary Jules song like twenty-seven times.^[3]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Greetings from the Side – 1998
• Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets – 2001, U.S. #144^[4]
• Gary Jules – 2006
• Bird – 2008

EPs[link]

• Live at Lime Presents Gary Jules-2009
• Daytrotter Session – 2009

Compilations[link]

• Ministry of Sound:Chillout Sessions: Summer Collection 2003 (2003)
  • Track 1 “Mad World”
• Echo: Acoustic 3 (2003)
  • Disc 1 Track 3 “Mad World”
• Now That’s What I Call Music! 56 (2003)
  • Disc 2 Track 21 “Mad World”
• KSGR 107.1: Broadcasts Volume 12 (2004)
  • Disc 2 Track 5 “Mad World”
• Sanctuary TV: The Essential Acoustic Album (2004)
  • Disc 1 Track 1 “Mad World”
• Rolling Stone Deutschland: New Noises, Volume 64 (2004)
  • Track 7 “Pills”
• Sony Music TV: The All Time Greatest Love Songs (2004)
  • Disc 1 Track 9 “Mad World”
• Virgin Records-UK: Now That’s What I Call Music!: Years (2004)
  • Disc 3 Track 2 “Mad World”
• BMG TV: The Ultimate Smooth Album (2004)
  • Disc 2 Track 2 “Mad World”
• Sony Music TV: Natural Woman: The Autumn Collection (2004)
  • Track 19 “Mad World”
• BMG TV: Beautiful: the New Collections Autumn (2004)
  • Track 17 “Mad World”
• Warner UK: The Ultimate All Time Classic Tearjerkers (2004)
  • Disc 1 Track 1 “Mad World”
• Alice 97.3: This is Alice Music, Volume 8 (2004)
  • Track 12 “Mad World”
• MSI Music Distribution: Hits 60 (2004)
  • Track 38 “Mad World”
• RCA Records (USA): Nightfly, Volume One (2004)
  • Track 32 “Mad World (Remix)”
• Messenger Records: Wouldn’t It Be Beautiful? (2005)
  • Track 6 “Patchwork G”
  • Track 8 “Broke Window”
• Rounder Select: Trampoline Records Greatest Hits, Volume One (2005)
  • Track 4 “Dtla”
• Starbucks’: Sweetheart: Love Songs(2005)
  • Track 5 “How Can I Tell You’’ Cat Stevens cover
• KCRW: Sounds Eclectic: The Covers Project (2007)
  • Track 10 “Mad World”
• Circle Back Music: Songs for a Broken Heart (2008)
  • Track 12 "No Poetry"
• Robin Danar: Altered States (2008)
  • Track 12 “Weirdo” The Charlatans cover

Collaborations[link]

• Michael Andrews - Donnie Darko (2001)
  • Track 17 "Mad World" and Track 18 "Mad World (Alternate Mix)" (featured)
• Jim Bianco - Handsome Devil (2004)
  • Track 6 "Tennessee Wedding" (background vocals)
• Esquimaux - perfecto! (2005)
  • Track 12 "Honey & Dear" (featured)
• Jim Bianco - Sing (2008)
  • Track 2 "Sing" and Track 6 "If Your Mama Knew" (background vocals)
• Angel Taylor - Love Travels (2009)
  • guitar, mandolin, background vocals

Quotations[link]

• "Ideally, I would love to sing for an audience of 3,000 (or 30,000) people who are so cool that it feels like 3 people. I like to try and connect on a very personal level, and I'd like nothing more than for 3,000 people to come together and have an extremely intimate experience all-together at my shows."^[5]

• "I think one could make a very good argument that a lot of art, particularly music, is born of suffering. I think the person who writes songs with a deeper resonance makes it their business to think about things like that."^[6]

• "As far as advice for struggling artists, I'd say separating your art from struggle is the worst mistake you can make. If you really want to be an artist, expect to be struggling forever. You'll struggle to get recognition and once you get recognition you'll have to struggle to change people's opinion when you want to do something slightly different. You have to love exactly what it is you're doing. You have to love the work in order to get by. If you do love it, it doesn't matter what the rest of the world thinks, which is the greatest part."^[7]

• "I found out that people through the ages are exactly the same as now, they had the same issues, the same desires. One thing that's clear when you read old literature is that there are some great universal truths — things like fart jokes, guys screwing other people's wives and the hunger for power."^[8]

References[link]

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