Gary Jules - Mad World (Live)

[tech4156]

he looks like da guy from gears of war

[Gordie1379]

He sounds like Michael Stipe from REM.

[VASTIEN]

DOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

[mineCraf0]

The perfect voice... You just made my life up, this song makes me peaceful... Pretty much lonely person, this song kinda discribes me. I love this song. :')

[ledngnr]

he covered it very good but i love tears for fears

[1714Omar]

top 3 songs very very very good song



[tristen144]

nice song

[MrMasterjoe17]

i love it

[Lubatah94]

PERFECT!

[lynzy663]

hes very good looking

[curtisscott02]

Man, this song is so upbeat all it needs is a banjo. Just kidding great old Tears for Fears song it was a much faster tempo song in 1983. brought back to life for the Johnny Darko movie

[Nightehawk18]

@curtisscott02 Donnie* Darko

[Portillo75]

Adam Lambert sing this song in a deepest way, which make you feel every single phrase as is it. Its make you chills listen to him, he's amazing. Gary Jules sing like he's talking, so simple.

[Shimp707]

@Portillo75 Then why are you listening to this

[Portillo75]

@Shimp707 Because, I saw a comment in the Adam Lambert video that "Gary Jules sing better than him" and I just wanted to confirm it and definitely it was not at all for me.

[MarcsDismemberYou]

@Portillo75 SHUT UP!

[Portillo75]

Adam lambert is the best singing this song, he has a deepest and amazing voice. Gary Jules sing so simple with no enthusiasm.

[iceseekers]

@Portillo75 Are you fucking serious? This song does not fit with "enthusiasm" It is a sad and depressing, cynical song. An enthusiastic and flashy showman like that drag queen Adam Lambert would just ruin the essence of this song. Go praise Adam Lambert instead of making such a stupid, offensive comment on this video.

[emplehod]

@iceseekers Actually, dude, this is a dance song. Look at the original by Tears For Fears. So who actually ruined the "essence"?

[iceseekers]

@emplehod The lyrics do not fit with "dance". I don't care what the song was originally intended to make people do.. but the words alone don't pain the picture of a dance party to me.

[emplehod]

@iceseekers Lyrics have nothing to do with a dance song, it's the beat and tempo. that's why most dance songs are pieces of crap.

[iceseekers]

@emplehod well, I like this version better. opinion v opinion debate is stupid.

[emplehod]

@iceseekers I wasn't debating opinions.  I was discussing a fact. As originally composed, it was a dance song. Besides, Adam Lambert can sing rings around this Jules guy.

[iceseekers]

@emplehod "adam lambert can sing rings around this jules guy" another opinion which I disagree with. Like i said, no point in further debate, I understand what the original song was supposed to be, but i think the original was a bad song with good lyrics.

[cutting13strings]

@iceseekers were listing to gary jules not adam lambert if we wanted to here about him we would be listing to his music and not gary's. So please comment some where else where people care, thank you.

[cutting13strings]

@iceseekers oh ya and adam lambert sounds like the old pedophile guy from family guy so next time you listen to him sing think about that,  think you will see my point.

[mineCraf0]

@cutting13strings you mean herbert the pervert?

[mineCraf0]

@cutting13strings you mean herbert the pervert?

[aricars6263]

tears for fears did this song gary! so stop taking credit for it asshole!

[hoosierteacher]

@aricars6263 In what medium has the performer taken credit for the song? Its a cover, and was used with permission from the original artists as part of a movie soundtrack by Gary Jules. Did Tears For Fears change their mind, and if so, why is that Jules' fault?

[masonpatrickwebb]

Perfection in live performance

[chwdp08]

The Masterpiece has been ruined by gary D:

[aricars6263]

@chwdp08 thank you ! he really needs to stop singing this song, it

is so depressing.

[ConstantineRobbins]

michel sktype??

[Manny2damax]

great singing

[Laught3rIsLovabl3]

a friend recommended this to me. and i absolutley love this!!!!

[GeorgeTheJoker780]

thanks to gears of war this guy is rich! lol. But yeah it is a pretty good song.

[july313]

Gary puede cantar canciones de Five for fighting y R.E.M. sin ningun problema!

[Brittany2419]

Beautiful Song <3



[XPsyclosarinX]

Fucking hell. 5 years ago and I'm still stunned by his rendition.

[carhartmann]

@XPsyclosarinX

8 years?

[Fale83]

gears of WAR!

[Thehelllestat]

@Fale83 what a nerd --

[Fale83]

@Thehelllestat nigga gow is raw and if u hate this game ur honestly a homosexual faggot ass hippie who luvs cock since they hate seeing blood buuuuut u like gow rite?

[Thehelllestat]

@Fale83 =D im hippie

[Fale83]

@Thehelllestat cool nvr knew a hippie who liked gow welcome sir

[KapplanSpy]

he sounds a little bit like michael stipe from REM

i am getting chills listening to this.. makes me think of a lonely kid on the street..

[TheBillieJean1234]

I definitely teared up during this

[Element404]

Daaaaaamn. It would suck to only have one song to play live. Especially one that isn't even yours....

Awesome cover though of course.

[gmail5552]

this is a great cover if you think its not well that your choice but i see to meny people that just say bad things about these artists hard work and all the work that they put in to these shows they do for every one around the world to see and enjoy and all some people is say bad things about it so think of all there hard work before you speak

[JohnLawrenceCobraKai]

This is the worst cover I have ever heard. Tears for Fears are way better than this wannabe Moby looking fuck.

[JohnWayneColt45]

@JohnLawrenceCobraKai great comment !!

[madu1984]

36 people are madworld

[milkshaker74]

1:08 nothing sexier than 2 women with straddling cello's

[geengeen1000]

What gave u the idea to make this song?

[thecitizens]

very powerful tune ..

[jazzyfresh057]

My favorite performance of this song is still Adam Lambert...He puts the most feeling into the song.

[geetarbasedrum]

@jazzyfresh057 i think you mean he puts the most vocalizing into the song. it's not about how many different notes you can hit in one word. im not saying he did a bad job, but he kind of changed the song.

[Jackthegreendog]

Holy hell its Marcus Fenix *_*

[MySweetRevenge92]

36 people have nothing better to do. U_U

[WhoaaItsKenji]

i love this song 

[guzziman96]

1:27 Marcus Fenix *__*

[teenytinyapple]

@IBenCope

i know, i find it kinda funny and i find it kinda sad

[crazydaniel1231]

THIS SONG IS FREEKY

[Ragash91]

Anyone else find his voice very similar to Michael Stipe's? I mean, the first time I heard this song I was convinced it was from R.E.M.

[JohnLawrenceCobraKai]

@Ragash91 You were not the only one. Rest assured.

[DaveMcG]

The vocalist looks like a bald Will Ferrell

[47masterguitar]

Beautiful arrangement! Go Gary!

[stillmoretocome]

Meaning behind the Words (in parentheses)

All around me are familiar faces (You recognize yourself in others)

Worn out places, worn out faces (Constant struggle)

Bright and early for their daily races (Heading out to work)

Going nowhere, going nowhere (Meaningless, tiresome toil)

For the rest, go to NO-SELF.com

[yogscastfan1]

ya, i really like this song. but people ruin it by saying stuff like, 'this is so tru. we'r all meant to die!' :D

[mdlp1991]

@yogscastfan1

This is so true. We're all meant to die!

:'D

[xoxiheartMusicxox]

Perfect ending for Donnie Darko...

[ripvanhe]

this is the kind of guy who have love in his heart

[tbars23]

36 people are going nowhere

[oscaroscarful]

Top version. A rare example of the cover being better than the original.

[personthatneverwas]

i love this, its, just, the melody is so haunting, his voice is emmitating horrow amusment and emontionless sounds. yet, it speaks to me, it really does.

[UnionKid15]

thanks a lot for posting this.

[DoseAnyoneCare]

36 people thought that the back round was real snow at first and then realized it wasn't

[koda440]

wow...ive only heard one artist that sounds great live and on CD's

and now its two gary jules =)

[stonetheforbidden]

@koda440 But I must know, who's the other?!

[Popiskor]

Apparently Tears even prefers this version of the song. They sang it with a choir as the slower, more emotional version. They wrote a beautiful song and Gary sang it beautifully. Atleast it wasn't taken and turned into some background song for a rapper or anything...OH WAIT! It did....

[camerochick45]

this song reminds me of scary clowns for some reason lol idk

[BipolarBowler]

Original Tears for Fears was better. This just pisses me off.

[Jamy729]

sadly there's a lot of truth in this song.

[mdooms76]

Beautifully haunting performance...love it! His voice is so gentle and sincere...he sings with great emotion here.

[lotsatunes]

Has anyone heard Sarah McLachlan's U Want Me 2? Intro is strikingly similar. Hmmm....(she wrote hers around '08)

[45strong]

Song is hella cool

[SharikTheReal]

One of the best covers in covers history! :o

[chelpa2]

can't we just like this song? does it have to be a fight, like everything else?!!

[ghostly3]

Beautiful....

[phazon1029]

This song is so great and creepy at the same time...Love it!

[soulicous1]

I love this song. I'm sure alot of people can relate to this song.

[skillzable]

all i listen too is rap and this song goes hard real raw emotions damn good singer ....yea i dont see how anyone with at least a little bit of a heart in them wouldnt like this

[MrVincentR]

the piano dude at the end looks so sad. he needs a piece of pie.

[yogscastfan1]

@MrVincentR ha ha! i think he dose! :D

[rabbitohsbestfan]

@MrVincentR i think he just found out that the cake was a lie

[IamSorryDude1]

@MrVincentR well the song is sad mate :) its normal to feel it :)

[TheHahaepic]

@cbuckley43 haha thanks for agreeing with me man

[TheHahaepic]

@TheDevilyouDontknow1 well someone else might agree

[TheHahaepic]

@TheDevilyouDontknow1 well someone else might agree

[TheHahaepic]

pause at 3:06 lol the guy looks depressed lol? comment back if you agree

[TheDevilyouDontknow1]

@TheHahaepic not at all

[cbuckley43]

@TheHahaepic lol ya

[TheHahaepic]

pause at 3:06 lol the guy looks depressed lol? comment back if you agree

[richardmincher]

Like - dislike? your all fucking mad but what do I know... One little fucking world one the fucking man rant over dreams rant over sad, but the dreams in which im dieing take my soul. But yeah what does it matter one little - big. ? Issue Im real xxx God

[hayzsz]

@richardmincher your an idiot...

[cbuckley43]

@richardmincher ur a dumb ass

[richardmincher]

Like - dislike? your all fucking mad but what do I know... One little fucking world one the fucking man rant over dreams rant over sad, but the dreams in which im dieing take my soul. But yeah what does it matter one little - big. ? Im real xxx God

[NeverDoubt1]

I love this version, but I also love the lyrics and Tears for Fears gets the credit for those. ;) 

[bellez3417]

love love, great voice.....AND FOR 34 PEOPLE THAT DISLIKE THIS SONG.. U CAN EAT SHITTT

[5ofa]

i remember i was 10 when watching this it fills my soul.

[TLJ55]

I listened to the original version of this song by Tears for Fears, years and years ago. I loved it. It was the only version I'd ever heard until my daughter played this for me TONIGHT! This version is the artists INTERPRETATION! This is one of the most beautiful versions of a cover song I've ever heard. It might as well BE Gary Jules song! I disagree with anyone who gives it a thumbs down. They're obviously outnumbered anyway!

[whatwhatinthebu7]

thumb up if these is sort of how your childhood was when you where a kid in school a teenager and a normal working person in daily life in society today

[v10ramTony]

@whatwhatinthebu7 You are clearly severely handicapped, so I hope, for everyone else's sake, it was nothing like yours.

[Chentetorrez]

Tears for Fears fuckers. Perfroming a song you covered as your " big break"

faggotry. I bet all those people in the audience think they wrote this song themselves

[mechajesus2000]

@Chentetorrez Actually, Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears) was the original writer and performer of this song in 1982, Gary Jules and Michael Andrews did a slower ballad for the movie Donnie Darko in 2003, though i do prefer Gary over Roland very much

[alextang07021]

@TheCrazyfaith, actually there are 33 retards now

[lltjekmeoutll]

omfg can some people please shut the fuck up about he dislike button

[thenicelyman]

7 (soon 8) years ago 4ucking good times!

[zannen23]

Somehow interesting but more than average when u know the original. Tears for Fears knew their shit. This sounds just like schoolwork. But hey some seems to like it. ;)

[xpledgeturnprestigex]

Im sorry to avid tears for fears fans, but this is how the song was meant to be done.

[NeverDoubt1]

@xpledgeturnprestigex I enjoyed Gary Jules' version, but it's the lyrics that really stood out for me and no one can take that away from Tears for Fears. :)

[xpledgeturnprestigex]

@NeverDoubt1 I agree, the lyrics are what make the song amazing, I just kind of feel like the up-tempo ness of the tears for fears version doesn't really match with the lyrics, but maybe that's just because I heard the gary jules version first.

[NeverDoubt1]

@xpledgeturnprestigex I heard the Gary Jules version first too actually. I think it's just the whole idea that's intriguing to me, of a song that's essentially been passed down through the decades. It's not many songs that can be successfully reinvented by future generations. :)

[cabronte]

First time I heard this I thought it was Michael Stipe from REM. Very similar voice and phrasing. And that's a good thing.

This song gets deeply into my head. When I first saw "Darko" fuck it was haunting. Fucking good.

[PainOfRock345]

How does he not break down and cry singing this song?

[lilodevil]

how can anyone say they like this song but dislike tears for fears when they written the lyrics ? i like this version but for me i prefer tff is those sounds abit of a drag after listens to tff version

as all top of the pop performances after i think it was 1986 they were all live

[stjo5555]

wtf its not gary jules.this guy is a noname so fuck him who think he can sing like gary jules lolllll.i hate remakers who cant made his own music

[dreamoperator303]

I like both the GJ and the TFF versions. The Gary Jules version is a bit more straightforward and the "obvious" route to go...the slow tempo highlights Roland's lyrics, whereas the Tears For Fears version played off the upbeat tempo clashing with the lyrics in much the way that all the angst, misery, and bullshit of high school (and lots of life after, for that matter) is set to a backdrop of false peppiness and pop music that dosn't stop for you or your feelings. Same thing, different POV.

[NeverDoubt1]

@dreamoperator303 "Same thing, different POV."

Exactly, there's no reason for people to take sides on this, heh.

[tharindu13]

maybe it's just be me. but I'm pretty sure that He's lip syncing.

[bogash75]

@tharindu13 ---Right, lip -ynching the breathing and barely hitting the highs. C'mon, tool, it's him.

[MrTHEBINARYBANDIT]

best song from gears of war

[joshkatell]

@MrTHEBINARYBANDIT its not from gears of war fag

[MrTHEBINARYBANDIT]

@joshkatell ummm yea it is on the trailer stupid

[joshkatell]

@MrTHEBINARYBANDIT so that makes it from the game? haha it was on donnie darko too does that mean it was created solely for that movie?

[Squidly78]

The 27 people who dislike this song are Locust sympathizers.

[ChadWallinful]

@Squidly78 Well put.

[lenr112]

@Squidly78 Or Adam Lambert stans !

[guzziman96]

@Squidly78 Ahahahahahahahah it's true!!!

[kevinlin431]

@Squidly78 i agree. :D

[AlwaysRussian]

1:22-1:32 Did he sing something like "Mad Bro"?

[jadegiles25]

adam lambert is original hes the best singer-genuine one-voice is out of this world. hate to say this. elvis presley and michael jackson and adam lambert are gifted; same zodiac sign animal three of the gifted indeed(music analysis plus physcjic)traits-personality reader. (sorry to tell you this secret about this artist talent)

[KrazyDeejay]

@jadegiles25 Adam lambert was gifted? oh yea hes gay

[MrCrucian]

Good voice and nice song!

[Kmatthew08]

27 people need to never get on the internet again

[thepoket65]

1:30 it looks like he is about to cry now that is how to feel while listening to the song

[GBPaddling]

Yer see,when Tears for Fears' original came out I was 16,and I loved the song,very memorable for all the right reasons,when this came out it was like a 21yr old echo,even coming out at the same time of year(Christmas) and as such I think both tracks are utterly brilliant,and that is not easy to achieve!

[ehlman916]

he just looks so sad



[TheSkynerSword]

To Me, This Explained What Half Of The World Was To Me. Indeed, some children only had 'Happy Birthdays' has their happy times. It is a Sad And Beautifal Song.

When I First Heard This, It Struck Me Back To My Childhood. No Wii, No Playstation, No Xbox, No Nothing.

[jadegiles25]

i guess only adam lambert can sing this beautifully.other singer just an ordinary singer ordinary voice.

[TrinityofTriforce]

@jadegiles25

I have to disagree. Adam Lambert's version was too poppy and showy, he forgot the original meaning to the song. It's not supposed to be sung with the "I'm-so-freakin-skilled-with-m­y-voice" type of aesthetic.

The reason Gary Jules' version is so popular is because he sings it with the feeling, as if he's about to cry. He's solemn, low, and regretful, accentuating the song's meaning. Look beyond the sound and listen again ;),

[nikkopayne]

@jadegiles25 I have to disagree as well. I truly think that Adam Lambert's version tries to abuse the true meaning of the song. It's suppose to be a depressing song, a darker song. I just don't think you can sing this song with incredible pitches and octaves in your voice and it still sound good.

[coolkid124512]

more touching then the 80's

[skilletfan47]

I think this song is creepy, beautiful and addictive!

[RatedR2248]

gr8 song

[pswayzelover]

No matter who sings this song, Gary Jules, Tear for Fears, Adam Lambert....whoever... the song rocks. It is so hauntingly beautiful. My personal favorite is Gary Jules's version. It was perfect for the movie Donnie Darko.

[deabajo]

nice...

[fgfcgcb]

hel listen how when he said " i find it kind of sad',he said saaaa then haaaa wtf

[redaliz]

he looks like my maths teacher lol

[sourceplayer151]

jules sounds 500x better live than he does in the music video

[FIXXTHE]

Bien sur, cette version est encore meilleure que l'originale, mais il ne faut pas oublier que le talent revient aussi à ceux qui ont composé cette magnifique mélodie, en l'occurrence Roland Orzabal et Curt Smith. Tears for Fears a d'ailleurs composé un grand nombre de mélodie remarquable, tout au long de sa carrière, Mad World n'en est qu'un (bel) exemple.

[purplekw1]

they all look depressed haha

[matthewdro]

Tears for Fears is an amazing band, especially considering they wrote this song, but i feel like Gary Jules captured what tears for fears where going for better then they did

[MrVincentR]

the guy playing the piano looks so sad at the end. someone give him some pie.

[scatman765]

tears for fears can suck my dick this guy is way better

[AllstarConverseRock]

this song is just real.. and he sings it with alot of passion.. clear voice and lots of emotion

[jayboy636]

this song makes me cry

[TheCrazyfaith]

Thumbs up if you think that those 25 people are retards for disliking this song

[HarmoftheFarm]

@TheCrazyfaith Made it 27! (Y)

[adam802609]

@TheCrazyfaith those 28 are stupid, yes

[SeriousGamer2009]

Thumbs up if you think people are retarded to beg for thumbs up.

wait...

[Killerthefirst]

@TheCrazyfaith  for all people dislike the lyrics of this song:

"your a animal without feelings , i hope god have mercy of your soul"

[The4everPianist]

Gary Jules version is much more better than tears for fears....

[blackfeiticeira]

This is how a sad song makes you happy

[mpt111]

Doesn't Michael Andrews look like that guy from The Office show at 3:09