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Gary Jules (born in 1969 in Fresno, California as Gary Jules Aguirre) is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known for his cover of the Tears for Fears song 
Mad World, which was featured in the film Donnie Darko.
Gary Jules attended The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, California. Some of his early projects/bands were The Ivory Knights, Our Town Pansies, Woodenfish and The Origin.
Jules started off his solo recording career with the debut Greetings From the Side. Originally released by A & M, this album slipped through the cracks due to neglect on the label’s part, and Jules was dropped. In 2001, together with friend Michael Andrews, Gary Jules recorded Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets. It was from this album that the remake of Tears for Fears’Mad World was subsequently used by Michael Andrews for Donnie Darko.
In December 2003, two years after Donnie Darko was released, Mad World finally reached the charts and became the Christmas Number One in the UK. In early 2004, the song surfaced in the US and Canada.
His most recent album, simply titled Gary Jules was released in 2006. The song Falling Awake from this album was recently used in the season 3 episode Six Days: Part Two of Grey’s Anatomy.
Jules’ Andrews’ arrangement of Mad World, was recently used in a trailer for the Gears of War for the XBOX 360, it was also used in a few episodes of CSI, Without A Trace, in some episodes of Dead like me, in an episode of Jericho, and a memorable episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Mad World, which was featured in the film Donnie Darko.Gary Jules attended The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, California. Some of his early projects/bands were The Ivory Knights, Our Town Pansies, Woodenfish and The Origin.
Jules started off his solo recording career with the debut Greetings From the Side. Originally released by A & M, this album slipped through the cracks due to neglect on the label’s part, and Jules was dropped. In 2001, together with friend Michael Andrews, Gary Jules recorded Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets. It was from this album that the remake of Tears for Fears’
Mad World was subsequently used by Michael Andrews for Donnie Darko.In December 2003, two years after Donnie Darko was released, Mad World finally reached the charts and became the Christmas Number One in the UK. In early 2004, the song surfaced in the US and Canada.
His most recent album, simply titled Gary Jules was released in 2006. The song Falling Awake from this album was recently used in the season 3 episode Six Days: Part Two of Grey’s Anatomy.
Jules’ Andrews’ arrangement of Mad World, was recently used in a trailer for the Gears of War for the XBOX 360, it was also used in a few episodes of CSI, Without A Trace, in some episodes of Dead like me, in an episode of Jericho, and a memorable episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Faancy wrote:
Mad World <33 [12]
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SeveralPeople wrote:
Donnie Darko! [2]
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DanielSchepers wrote:
@BenXander: I quite like Umbilical Town and Barstool by him, both from Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets.
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leeefr wrote:
I LOVE IT. <33333333333333
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SteQ wrote:
"Tears of Fears wrote the lyrics " .. yeah they wrote the lyrics but the original version of mad world is also from tears for fears ... so they didnt wrote the lyrics TO gary jules ... its a cover
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TheThere wrote:
check this out --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE
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MrGerard wrote:
Donnie Darko!
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benxander wrote:
enough of this Mad World bullshit. Yeah, I love the song and think its easily one of the greatest covers I've ever heard. BUT, I came to this page looking for advice on what else is good by him. Anyone? I'll take ShadyAdy's advice either way.
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ShadyAdy wrote:
@Quispiam: I feel bad for those people who have only heard his cover of 'Mad World'. The epithet "one hit wonder" does him a severe injustice. I seriously recommend people seek out his album 'Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets', it's quite excellent - shame people didn't make as much fuss of it as they did with Mad World.
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gro13ove wrote:
гений.
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nucturnalis wrote:
Tears of Fears wrote the lyrics...
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na8el wrote:
DD
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Quispiam wrote:
It isn't? Who wrote it?
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Nuwanda74 wrote:
Donnie Darko !
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mistery_17 wrote:
[I feel bad for this guy, only having a single good song.] Yeah, and it's not even his song
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majinjynxi wrote:
Mad World ! [11]
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OrangeMM wrote:
Mad World ! [10]
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Giovanigarcez wrote:
Donnie Darko :D
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Zimny1993 wrote:
Mad World ! [9]
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Quispiam wrote:
I feel bad for this guy, only having a single good song. Talk about one hit wonder. Mad World is amazing though.
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