Album · Michael Andrews
Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets by Michael Andrews
Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets is an album by Michael Andrews, released in 2001. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 37 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Mad World”, on 24 lists with a best position of #6.
Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets is Gary Jules's second studio album, released on Sanctuary Records in 2001, and it's where the stark cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" lives, the one Jules cut with Michael Andrews for the Donnie Darko soundtrack. Andrews, a multi-instrumentalist, producer and film composer who also co-founded San Diego soul-jazz outfit the Greyboy Allstars, was Jules's partner on that recording.
The record was a slow fuse. It took three years to find its audience, finally cracking the UK Top 40 and the Billboard 200 in 2004, after "Mad World" had become the 2003 UK Christmas number one. The song kept travelling, too, turning up in a trailer for the video game Gears of War.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.