In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Mad World's distinctive percussion intro was played on a Roland CR-78 drum machine. We first recorded it at twice the speed, but it sounded great slowed down.
I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.
I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.
A song about post-teenage angst like 'Mad World' seems to be permanently relevant.
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
Two decades later, Gary Jules sang 'Mad World' for the film 'Donnie Darko' and got the Christmas No 1 in 2003. That was probably the proudest moment of my career.
Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!
