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B-side. "Ideas as Opiates" is a song that originally served as the B-side to the "Mad World" single. This earlier version was produced by the band themselves, though it was later re-recorded for inclusion on The Hurting.
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 the following year. The song eventually became Tears for Fears' first international hit, reaching the Top 40 in several countries in 1982 and 1983, peaking notably at #2 in South Africa.
MadWorld [a] is a beat 'em up hack and slash video game developed by PlatinumGames, published by Sega, produced by Atsushi Inaba, and directed by Shigenori Nishikawa. It was released worldwide for the Wii in March 2009, and in Japan in February 2010.
‘Mad World’: meaning ‘Mad World’ is a song about childhood suffering, loneliness, invisibility, and the drab, repetitive nature of most people’s lives. At its heart, life appears to have no meaning: people go to work, children go to school, but everything they do seems ultimately pointless.
5 days ago · [Chorus: Sly Pyper & Eminem] Must be a cold day in Hell (Yeah), tell me, what have we done? (Woah) Take me out my misery, I bought Heaven when it was up for sale and now I need a refund, bae (Yeah ...
