Gary Jules

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Gary Jules (born in 1969 in Fresno, California as Gary Jules Aguirre) is an American singer-songwriter. He 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.

Official Site: http://www.garyjules.com/

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Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets
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Greetings From the Side
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Top Tracks

1	Mad World	7,725
2	Something Else	304
3	falling awake	273
4	Mad World (Alternate Version) full track	252
5	No Poetry	207
6	Pills	193
7	Umbilical Town	137
8	Broke Window	136
9	Boat Song	125
10	Lucky	113
11	madworld	102
12	Patchwork G	101
12	Barstool	101
14	DTLA	96
15	The Princess of Hollywood Way	94

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J_Quilty wrote:
Monday morning

wait, so who sang 'mad world', gary jules or michael andrews... because they are both credited for it. I'm confused, anyone know what's up?

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nesikandzioju wrote:
Friday morning

Mad world <333

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sac12 wrote:
last week

mad world is beautiful

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Conzeit wrote:
12 days ago

just bumped into mad world....it really marks this moment Im in...not to mention I feel like this often.

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Apollyon_ wrote:
12 days ago

lol Top tracks

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Dr_Thunder_MD wrote:
last month

http://www.last.fm/group/Gears+Of+War+2

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KingaWest wrote:
last month

he's good. really good.

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daybroken wrote:
last month

Legend! Please have a listen to my tune, thanks http://www.last.fm/music/Bryn+Williams/Save+and+quit/Halfway+Home

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RichardVladimir wrote:
last month

great musician whose music is unfortunately overshadowed by the "Mad World" cover.

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bananasrus09 wrote:
last month

Last successful connection: 14/9/2008 15:07 Submission Server: OK 0 cached tracks: Radio Server: OK

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SilentPoet82 wrote:
last month

Stop complaining and start listening to his other stuff. It's good!!!

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starlighterased wrote:
last month

one hit cover?

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andremiguelaa wrote:
August 2008

No way!

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void__ wrote:
August 2008

one hit wonder?

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BadArtGood wrote:
August 2008

i can't stop listening to Falling Awake

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Astarot wrote:
August 2008

cool musician

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jey-gee wrote:
August 2008

Love love Mad World!

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Mliissa wrote:
August 2008

2,309,003/3,184,368 plays for mad world... that's crazy

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Bathiel wrote:
August 2008

Love Mad World...

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MKX88 wrote:
August 2008

Mad World FTW!!! :-D

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