playtherecords: Gears of Mad World

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Gears of Mad World

Gotta love the 80's for bringing the world dorky little keyboard horn licks in the middle of serious gothy anthems (listen around 2:29 into the song):

Tears For Fears - Mad World

A lot of you probably know this song from the (also great) remake from the Donnie Darko soundtrack:

Interestingly, this remake was recently used to advertise the wicked awesome game Gears of War, which just seemed like an odd mix... hardcore shoot-em-up game using a brooding emo remake of a big-hair-80's proto-goth-pop tune: