It features a gloomy looking Curt Smith staring out a window, while Roland Orzabal performs a bizarre dance outside on a lakeside jetty. The promotional clip for "Mad World", filmed in late summer 1982, was Tears for Fears' first music video. Curt Smith in the "Mad World" music video It really was all about that kind of thing – the psychological answer to religion being the opiate of the masses, whereas we thought ideas were, more than anything else. That's the chapter from Janov, and it's really a reference to people's mindsets, the way that the ego can suppress so much nasty information about oneself – the gentle way that the mind can fool oneself into thinking everything is great. An alternative version of this song titled "Saxophones as Opiates" was included as a B-side on the 12" single and is mostly instrumental. The song is musically sparse, featuring just a piano, drum machine, and saxophone. The song takes its name from a chapter title in Arthur Janov's book Prisoners of Pain and features lyrics related to the concept of primal therapy. It was later re-recorded for inclusion on The Hurting. " Ideas as Opiates" is a song that originally served as the B-side to the "Mad World" single. A later remix by noted British music producer Afterlife was featured on the 2005 reissue of the Tears for Fears greatest hits collection Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92). This mix is very similar to the album version, with the most notable differences being the additional echo added to the intro and middle sections and the subtraction of a subtle keyboard part from the bridge. The song had only one remix on its initial release, the World Remix that was featured on a 7" double-single. The 7" version of "Mad World" is the same mix of the song found on The Hurting. It's looking out at a mad world from the eyes of a teenager. It throws together a lot of different images to paint a picture without saying anything specific about the world. The lyric "the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" suggests that dreams of intense experiences such as death will be the best at releasing tension. The song was influenced by the theories of Arthur Janov, author of The Primal Scream. I added it as a joke during the lead vocal session, and we kept it. The actual line is: "Halargian world." (Not "illogical world", "raunchy young world"(!), "enlarging your world", or a number of other interesting if not amusing guesses.) The real story: Halarge was an imaginary planet invented by either Chris Hughes or Ross Cullum during the recording of The Hurting. With Mad World's again-resurgent popularity, I'm getting asked more frequently about the last line on the album version from The Hurting, a line which I occasionally also sing in concert. Smith clarified the actual lyric in 2010: Ĭurt Smith's ad lib in the song's final chorus resulted in a mondegreen. We had no idea that it would become a hit. The intention was to gain attention from it and we'd hopefully build up a little following. "Mad World" was the first single off the finished album. Not that Bath is very mad – I should have called it "Bourgeois World"! That came when I lived above a pizza restaurant in Bath and I could look out onto the centre of the city. The band instead decided it may be something people would like to hear on the radio and held back its release, waiting to issue the song as a single in its own right after re-recording it with Chris Hughes, a former drummer with Adam and the Ants. "Mad World" began life as the intended B-side for Tears for Fears' second single " Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)".
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