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Both "Mad World" and its B-side, "Ideas as Opiates", appeared on the band's debut LP The Hurting (1983). This single was also the band's first international success, reaching the Top 40 in several countries in 1982–83.
Sep 16, 2022 · “Mad World” was the first single from their finished upcoming debut album The Hurting. Originally intended as a B-side, the duo was convinced to release it as a single by their record company. The song mixed an up-tempo sound with wistful lyrics about alienation in the modern world.
Fortunately, Dave Bates, a shrewd A&R man at the company, listened to their new song "Mad World," slated to be a B-side, and convinced the duo it was hit material. The duo's Curt Smith told The Quietus in 2013: "Us and Dave actually believed that it was the coolest sounding thing on the album because it was very, very different.
Oct 18, 2021 · The LP’s haunting breakthrough hit, “Mad World,” was originally intended to just be a B-Side to lead single “Pale Shelter.” It was the band’s A&R exec David Bates who pushed for its release as a single, and the rest is history.
Both "Mad World" and its B-side, "Ideas as Opiates", appeared on the band's debut LP The Hurting (1983). This single was also the band's first international success, reaching the Top 40 in several countries in 1982–83. In the UK it was the 12th best-selling single of 1982.
Nov 27, 2023 · Twenty years ago, when American singer Gary Jules bagged the UK 2003 Christmas number one with a brooding, melancholic cover of “Mad World”, it’s easy to imagine the song’s creators, 1980s...
Prior to the album "Mad World", originally thought of as a single b-side, was released and became a hit single. The first two singles " Suffer the Children " and " Pale Shelter " were re-recorded for the album.
