Mad World
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Sep 10, 2026
Ben HansonHOST
Metroid Ravenous, uh, January 28th.
Ben HansonHOST
Also, there's like one shot towards the end of that trailer where she's in a funky looking suit, and then there's just a shot where it looks like Mad World or something, Jacob.
Ben HansonHOST
You know, where it's like a black-and-white like finishing move looking thing maybe.
Jacob GellerPANELIST
Well, it's, it's super impact frames.
Sheri LynchHOST
It's a mashup between two songs that you would never think to put together.
Sheri LynchHOST
One of them is Dolly Parton's Nine to Five, and the other is Tears for Fears Mad World.
Sheri LynchHOST
So give this a listen.
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Working nine to five to make a living.
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I find it hard to tell you.
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I find it hard to take.
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When people work in circles, it's a very, very mad world.
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Mad world.
speaker_0HOST
That's what it's always about, and that's what it's about today.
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I've got a special guest coming on the airwaves in about a half an hour, Lori Majewski, co-author of the great new book, called Mad World, An Oral History of New Wave Artists.
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We're going to talk all things 80s alternative and new wave.
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Talk about her new book.
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So that's coming up in about a half hour.
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Starting off today with you two.
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All right, I've got a special interview coming up with author Lori Majewski.
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That's in about 15 or 20 minutes.
Maureen CallahanHOST
I want to re I want to read this to you.
Maureen CallahanHOST
This, this also goes to, um, the other bands of the time and mad world, which you write your producer was like, this is, this is, this is not just a B side that you could only ever see it as a B side, which I assume you met, you met, it was good, but not great in your mind.
Maureen CallahanHOST
Other people were saying it's great.
Roland OrzabalGUEST
I didn't think it was a hit.
Roland OrzabalGUEST
And, you know, I think fair enough.
Roland OrzabalGUEST
That was easy.
Maureen CallahanHOST
Of Mad World, you write, you were still struggling.
Maureen CallahanHOST
You were married to your first wife, Caroline, who was working two jobs.
Sue Ellen MeloGUEST
I should be able to remember my own playlist.
Sue Ellen MeloGUEST
Okay, Mad World.
Sue Ellen MeloGUEST
Okay.
Sue Ellen MeloGUEST
This one I discovered originally on General Hospital during the Franco storyline.
Anthony CoronaHOST
I'm so sorry.
Anthony CoronaHOST
It was taking me forever.
Anthony CoronaHOST
I was trying to tell you mad worlds and it was telling me I was unmuted, but I wasn't anyway.
Anthony CoronaHOST
Yeah.
Grant BrunnerHOST
I think I can guess one.
Grant BrunnerHOST
Is it is it the Mad World trailer? Mad World's on there.
Grant BrunnerHOST
OK,
Jared RussoHOST
so it's Dead Island.
Jared RussoHOST
OK, Dead Island's sad.
Jared RussoHOST
It's Gears of War Mad World, which does a better job of setting the tone for what that series is and should be than some of the games.
Jared RussoHOST
Yeah.
Jared RussoHOST
And then it made that song like climb the charts again.
AjaxHOST
What song will we be covering today on Cover Wars?
Max BlaskaGUEST
We will be covering one of the best songs about depression ever put to music, Mad World by Tears for Fears.
Max BlaskaGUEST
Absolutely.
Max BlaskaGUEST
All right.
AjaxHOST
I find it
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kind of sad Cover Wars The podcast where we find you The top three covers of a popular song We pull from a curated playlist Of twenty different versions We reveal our top five favorites Then we battle it out in a cover war Where we reveal what we've determined Culminating in the best cover ever of a popular song
AjaxHOST
All right, so Mad World, originally by Tears for Fears, which is very interesting because Tears for Fears has many hits.
AjaxHOST
This is one, though, that because of another song version of this song, people out there might not even know that this is an actual Tears for Fears song.
DaveHOST
Yeah, it feels like they're going for those sort of the vibes of those very first trailers with the, you know, what was the music they famously used for the first trailer? One of those really orchestral covers.
DaveHOST
I think it might have been Mad World.
DaveHOST
Was it Mad World? That was the vibe anyway.
NateHOST
Right, right.
NateHOST
But then but then the but then the original games are just like like time to kick ass kind of chainsaws and, you know, all sorts go and waste some locusts.
DaveHOST
Yes, it totally was Mad World as well.
DaveHOST
Like the sort of orchestral cover.
NateHOST
One
Christy York WootenHOST
I'm your host, Christy York Wooten, and this week is really a dream come true for me, a conversation with Roland Orzabal, co-founder with Kurt Smith of a band I listen to all the time, Tears for Fears.
Christy York WootenHOST
You know their songs like Mad World, Shout, Head Over Heels, and Everybody Wants to Rule the World.
Christy York WootenHOST
And today, Roland will tell us about his New York Times bestselling memoir, Welcome to Your Life, Love, Death, and Tears for Fears, which ties his personal and musical life to astrology.
Christy York WootenHOST
We'll deconstruct one of the band's biggest hits.
AjaxHOST
Yeah, we can't wait to have him on.
AjaxHOST
He picked an excellent song, and that song is none other than a Tears for Fear song called Mad World.
AjaxHOST
Mad World.
AjaxHOST
Oh.
AjaxHOST
Such a great song.
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