Mad World's chorus – "The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" – is from Janov's idea that nightmares can be good because they release tension. I poured all this into the song.Ī guitar teacher we knew introduced us to Arthur Janov's psychology book The Primal Scream. I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn't even be bothered to get out of bed. My dad had been in the second world war, had electric shock treatment, suffered from anxiety and was abusive to my mum. I had suffered from depression in my childhood. One of their lyrics went something like "I believe the world's gone mad" which summed up my feelings of alienation from the rat race. There was a group around called Dalek I Love You.
I got an asymmetrical hairstyle, Curt got plaits, and we started listening to synthesiser music. He was getting No 1s wearing black eyeliner, and there we were doing knees-ups to Madness. Just before that, we'd been in this mod band called Graduate, but Gary Numan had shocked us out of all that. So I said to Curt : "Look, you sing it." And suddenly it sounded fabulous. Eventually, we made the first demo of Mad World still with me singing. All we needed was someone who knew how to work it. Ian became our keyboard player and he had a drum machine, too. However, we were fortunate enough to be given an opportunity by a guy called Ian Stanley to go to his very big house and muck about on his synthesiser. It sounded pretty awful on guitar, though, with just me singing.
I just thought: "I'm going to have a crack at something like that." I did and ended up with Mad World. I've not told many people this, but I was listening to Radio 1 on this tinny radio and Duran Duran's Girls on Film came on. We're known as a synthesiser group, but back then I just had an acoustic guitar. I wrote it when I was 19, on the dole in Bath. Your fingers are on the cliff and you're about to drop off, but somehow you cling on. Want to master Microsoft Excel and take your work-from-home job prospects to the next level? Jump-start your career with our Premium A-to-Z Microsoft Excel Training Bundle from the new Gadget Hacks Shop and get lifetime access to more than 40 hours of Basic to Advanced instruction on functions, formula, tools, and more.Mad World hasn't dated because it's expressive of a period I call the teenage menopause, where your hormones are going crazy as you're leaving childhood. (1) Part 1 of 3 - How to Use Gary Fong Whaletail on location, (2) Part 2 of 3 - How to Use Gary Fong Whaletail on location, (3) Part 3 of 3 - How to Use Gary Fong Whaletail on location Please enable JavaScript to watch this video.
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