05.12.06
Mad World
Today I almost bought a song from the iTunes Music Store for the first time. From some time last night I had this song stuck in my head, that I did not know the title for, but that I could not get out of my head. So I had to find more about it. Luckily I remembered some of the lyrics, so I found that the song was Mad World from Tears for Fears. So I fired up iTunes and went to the music store to hear the song.
Now, I should say that I almost never get individual songs. I like getting whole albums, with their artwork and everything, even though I quickly move them to iTunes and almost never hear them from the CD again. I just like that it’s there, sometimes with some interesting trivia and often the lyrics, and at the very least some lovely images. For me the CD cover artwork is an integral part of the album. So all this is to say that I really wanted to find this song, and was really hoping to like the songs in the album enough to dive into it and get the whole thing.
So onwards I go to the iTunes Music store, and find the song. However, it turns out that the version by Tears for Fears was not the one I wanted. So I looked around at the other links that showed up, and lo and behold, I saw the Donnie Darko soundtrack, and it all clicked: That’s where I had first heard it! It turns out this is a cover by Gary Jules, and Michael Andrews, and the Donnie Darko soundtrack contains two versions of it. So I went to the soundtrack, and heard some of the other songs in the album, to see if I like them. Turns out I did not like any of the other pieces in there at all, so I decided to go ahead and just buy the song itself. That’s when I saw this:
Not cool Apple, not cool…. You’ve lost me as a customer, as far as the iTunes Music Store is concerned.
Luckily, I found two videos of the song on YouTube. Yey!
Later
