Low melody durations appear below the staff Tablature Legend - h - hammer-on p - pull-off b - bend pb - pre-bend r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately) /\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere") s - legato slide S - shift slide - natural harmonic - artificial harmonic n(n) - tapped harmonic ~ - vibrato tr - trill T - tap TP - trem. Multi- bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. note double dotted Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration) Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the duration for. They’ll continue running in scumscrabbling circles of indescribable averageness. The Gray Jules version was re-recorded as a stripped-down. And, Lord, sweet lord, wannabes and nevergonnabes all over the world would do well to listen, and learn.īut they won’t. Answer: To be accurate, the song was originally written by Tears for Fears and released in November 1982. Essential listening, in truth, for any fuckhead who decides they can write songs because they get a guitar for Christmas, or have cool hair, or sharp cheekbones, or sweet crotchtrix, or three-chord, coked-up dickthrob dreams.Īndrews’ magnificent arrangement encapsulates the original track’s confused resignation and enhances it to its logical ethereal fullness without once resorting to obvious, depressingly hamfisted chart/chord-trickery. This is one of the most important singles of the year, and despite the scrawny talons of the hype around it crushing the world's ears, it's incredible. Both 'Mad World' and its B-side, 'Ideas as Opiates', appeared on the bands debut LP The. 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 1982. And yadda, yadda, yadda, all the other bullshit that surrounds a record that in reality is an intense masterclass in intelligence, performance and expression. ' Mad World ' is a 1982 song by the British band Tears for Fears. And don’t forget the usual undignified scrabbling for the defiled and demeaned UK Christmas Number One. That and a massive marketing budget for Donnie Darko. It all makes for an instantly-involving, everyman-ermine what the fuck is it all about three-minute tenderfoot empassioned plea for understanding.Īnd that’s why so many people have bought into it. Taking, of course, Tears For Fears’ 1983 student-synth slice of introspection as a template, the dulled piano figure is subtly joined by the legato, solemn cello and everso slight vocal reverb. In contrast to the aforementioned lipless, pointless, moose-and-Di-fucker though, Gary Jules delivers ‘Mad World’ with grace and understated musicality that, despite sounding exactly like Michael Stipe circa 1994, is up there with the most beautifully emotive and heartbiting, softshanking vocal performances.Īctually, Jules’ stroke of luck – and ours – is that film composer Michael Andrews is a masterful, striking arranger. Not since Bryan Sodding Adams has there been a track from a popular film that has both captured the entire nation’s imagination and also enjoyed wide appreciation from all ages of regular radiowhores and rednecks. I find it hard to take Em A When people run in circles it’s a very very Em A Em A mad world mad world Em G Children waiting for the day they feel good D A Happy birthday happy birthday Em G Made to feel the way that every child should D A Sit and listen sit and listen Em G Went to school and I was very nervous. If you haven’t heard this record by now, then you’re either deaf or dead.
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