The World Seems Difficult

"The World Seems Difficult"
Single by Mental As Anything
from the album Cyclone Raymond
B-side	"Get You Back"
Released	1989
Genre	Rock
Length	4:14
Label	CBS Records
Songwriter(s)	Greedy Smith
Producer(s)	Mark Opitz, Steve James
Mental As Anything singles chronology
"Love Comes Running" (1989) "The World Seems Difficult" (1989) "Baby You're Wild" (1989)

"The World Seems Difficult" is a single by Australian band Mental As Anything, released in 1989. It was released as the first single from the album Cyclone Raymond. The song charted at number 53 on the ARIA Charts and it stayed on the charts for 14 weeks.^[1]

Greedy Smith, who wrote the song, said it "was a bit different for us - nobody knew who it was, basically." He added, "You've got to do these things occasionally because you always run a risk of copying yourself."^[2]

Lynden Barber of the Sydney Morning Herald said about the song, "I would have picked on a blindfold test as A-Ha."^[3]

The song appears over the opening credits of the film The Big Steal (1990).

Personnel

• Martin Plaza — guitar
• Greedy Smith — lead vocals, keyboards, harmonica
• Reg Mombassa — guitar, vocals
• Peter O'Doherty — bass, guitar, vocals
• Wayne de Lisle – drums

Track listings

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The World Seems Difficult"	Greedy Smith	4:14
2.	"Get You Back"	Martin Plaza

Charts

Chart (1989)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA Charts)[4]	53

References

1. Mental As Anything - The World Seems Difficult Australian Music Database
2. "A bang on the head makes a mental reflective". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 March 1990. p. 123.
3. Barber, Lynden (19 September 1989). "Cool rapping like quickfire". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 18.
4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 198. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

External links

• The World Seems Difficult at IMDb