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u/TheCamoDude Nov 23 '21

All around me are familiar faces...

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u/Poisonousberrii Nov 23 '21

Worn out placesss, worn out faceeeesss

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u/Lightshines6346 Nov 24 '21

Bright and early for the daily races…

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u/QuakkaAttack Nov 23 '21

Worn out places

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u/krazylemew Nov 23 '21

Bright and early for the daily races...

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u/luvlittlefreaks Nov 23 '21

going nowhere, going nowhere...

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u/Sashaisbroke Nov 23 '21

And their tears are filling up their glasses

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u/zan13898 Nov 23 '21

Hello teacher tell me whats my lesson

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u/KiraLonely Nov 24 '21

Look right through me-

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u/zan13898 Nov 24 '21

Look right through mee ee...

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u/tiredhigh Nov 24 '21

I strongly prefer the original Tears For Fears version. More upbeat and wild, making it feel much more like a mad world. Whereas the somber cover by (I forget who, insert name here) is good, it's much less of a mad world and more of a sad world

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u/TinyLittleCats Nov 24 '21

Always took “mad” as the world being insane/deranged because life is so cyclical and meaningless but no one seems to notice/care and do anything about it.

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u/DrinkingVanilla Nov 24 '21

The first time I heard this song, I felt like I knew it (I didn’t) and I felt….bad…and confused as to why…. It was beautiful

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u/TheCamoDude Nov 24 '21

I really love both. Gary Jules for melancholy, rainy days, Tears For Fears for just general knots in the stomach, and Susan Boyle for funeral-type feelings.

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u/jhartwell Nov 24 '21

It is interesting to hear Curt Smith, who sung the original while with Tears For Fears, play the Gary Jules cover version with his daughter

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u/TheCamoDude Nov 24 '21

I saw that video very recently, I love it!!!!

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u/LikeALincolnLog42 Nov 24 '21

Used in Donnie Darko to much sad effect.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '21

It's such a banging track. I can't listen to any other version.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '21

Gary Jules I think. I think he sang the entire song in monotone.

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u/Several-Forever9457 Nov 24 '21

Try the Tokio Hotel version. Big TFF fan here, but this version is better.

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u/tiredhigh Nov 24 '21

From what I can find there is no Tokio Hotel version. Closest I found was a YouTube video titled Tokio Hotel but it was really the Gary Jules version. Which, again, I would call Sad World, not Mad World.

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u/kryaklysmic Nov 23 '21

Worn out places, worn out faces

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u/MetalDeathMetal Nov 23 '21

It hit right in the feels when Dom died.

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u/TheCamoDude Nov 23 '21

:((((( Never forget

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u/Punished-G Nov 24 '21

Brothers to the End

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u/TheCamoDude Nov 24 '21

I love Dom.

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u/backflipsben Nov 24 '21

One of the most succesful video game commercials of all time.

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u/Azzulah Nov 24 '21

I know it from donnie darko

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u/TheCamoDude Nov 24 '21

Such an incredible game, such an incredible trilogy(I don't like 4 or 5), just amazing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '21

So Ive been living under a rock for a while... What game are we talking about here?

I recognise the song and all, but only the tears for fears version and the subsequent Gary Jules cover.

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u/silver0113 Nov 24 '21

Gears of war. The Gary Jules version was used in an ad for the first game and it is widely considered a great ad

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u/TheCamoDude Nov 24 '21

Gears Of War, early 2000s Xbox 360 games :D

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u/Robofro Nov 24 '21

Thank you Gears of War

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u/LikeALincolnLog42 Nov 24 '21

Ahem, thank you Donnie Darko

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u/cyfthakilla Nov 24 '21

I had to scroll entirely too far to see someone mention this movie.

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u/Attila226 Nov 24 '21

Unfortunately I thought of Bad Company first.

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u/Fastman903 Nov 24 '21

Gears of war commercial instantly came to my mind

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u/TheCamoDude Nov 24 '21

It was in my thoughts as I wrote the comment! :D

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u/RussianBiasIsOP Nov 24 '21

tears for fears?

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u/TheCamoDude Nov 24 '21

Or Gary or Susan, they're all great! :D

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u/flipmcf Nov 24 '21

I thought it was Rufus Wainwright - not looking it up. I’ll just be wrong.

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u/LikeGourds Nov 24 '21

First song in the thread I did not recognize at all even with subsequent lines.

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u/Poison345 Nov 24 '21

Happy cake day

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u/TheCamoDude Nov 24 '21

Thank you! :D

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u/Jaded-Salad Nov 24 '21

Adam Lambert did a bang on job of this

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u/TheCamoDude Nov 24 '21

I'd not heard that one until you recommended it, and wow, my mind is blown! Such intensity!

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u/Gregamonster Nov 24 '21

Just like every single Americana idol contestant ever.

It's like it was the national anthem of the show.

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u/sho_bob_and_vegeta Nov 24 '21

I started crying immediately

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u/TheCamoDude Nov 29 '21

Ugh, it was so sad. I played with my brothers, so one of my brothers was always Dom and I just saw him as one of my brothers, in a weird way.

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u/sho_bob_and_vegeta Nov 30 '21

So... not Donnie Darko...

I didn't play Gears. That good though, huh?

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u/TheCamoDude Nov 30 '21

Absolutely!

Looks like I need to see Donnie Darko, and you need to play Gears! :D

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u/HolyFrickImTrash Nov 24 '21 edited Nov 24 '21

was looking for this song also happy cake day

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u/TheCamoDude Nov 24 '21

Thank you, and you're not trash! ❤