Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets was a 2001 album release by Gary Jules

Gary Jules

Gary Jules is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his cover of Tears for Fears' third single "Mad World", which he recorded together with friend Michael Andrews for the film Donnie Darko. It became the UK Christmas Number One single of 2003...

 under the Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records

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 label. Despite the year of release, the album took a long time to reach the charts in both the UK and USA; it reached both the UK Top 40 and Billboard 200

Billboard 200

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 charts in 2004. The highly popular Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears are an English new wave band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, they were initially associated with the New Wave synthesiser bands of the early 1980s but later branched out into...

 cover "Mad World

Mad World

"Mad World" is a song by the British band Tears for Fears. Written by Roland Orzabal and sung by bassist Curt Smith, it was the band's third single release and first chart hit, reaching #3 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1982. Both "Mad World" and its B-side, "Ideas As Opiates", would turn up...

," which was also featured on the Donnie Darko soundtrack and in the Gears of War

Gears of War

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trailer, is the last song listed on the album (although an untitled hidden track

Hidden track

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 is actually the last song).

Track listing

1. "Broke Window"
2. "No Poetry"
3. "DTLA"
4. "Lucky"
5. "Something Else"
6. "Pills"
7. "Boat Song"
8. "Umbilical Town"
9. "The Princess of Hollywood Way"
10. "Patchwork G"
11. "Barstool"
12. "Mad World"
13. "Keep" (hidden track)

Personnel

• Gary Jules – vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
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  s, mandolin
  Mandolin
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  , harmonica
  Harmonica
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• Michael Andrews – guitars, bass
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals, piano
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  , keys
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  , melodica
  Melodica
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  , shakers
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  , drums
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• Sarah Brysk – vocals
• Robert Walter – piano
• Al Sgro – vocals
• George Sluppick – drums (tracks 2 and 9)
• Matt Lynott – drums (tracks 1 and 11)

Chart performance

Year	Chart	Position
2004	UK	12
2004	Billboard 200	144
2004	Top Heatseekers	5

External links

• Lyrics for Gary Jules Songs (Songmeanings.net)