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My iPod #148: Billy Talent – Burn the Evidence

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“Burn the Evidence” is the closing track from Billy Talent’s second album, “Billy Talent II”, released in 2006.

By that time I’d been listening to Billy Talent for about a year or so, but it was only their material from their first album. When were they going to release something new? Well, it was when they uploaded their demo for “Red Flag” on their myspace page that I found out that something was coming pretty soon. It was an exciting time.

“Billy Talent II” came out and for me was just as good as their first. The band had a lot less anger in their sound but you could sense that it was still there. The album cover summed up that statement.

“Burn the Evidence” describes the scene of a man who drives a luxury Sedan, crashes and plummets through the windshield. It’s unclear whether this is intentional. I thought it was. Users on songmeanings.com say otherwise. It seems to me that the narrator was also built up for great expectations, those didn’t go as planned and so he kills himself. It’s not a sad song though. The instrumentation is delivered with determination and the lyrics depict a person thinking forward instead of feeling pity on himself. Whatever it is, it’s a very good closer for an album.

Did you know it’s in the same key as “Living in the Shadows”? I’m very sure they are the same structurally too. I sing the bridge from “Shadows” to the instrumental break in “Burn the Evidence” all the time. They are very similar.

Jamie.

My iPod #147: Feeder – Burn the Bridges

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It was in the midsummer of 2006 when the advert for Feeder’s brand new compilation “The Singles” started to be shown regularly on the television. If anyone doesn’t know who Feeder are or you’ve never listened to their material, “The Singles” is a good place to start. Even though it is a compilation, it is one filled with 20 tracks of their most popular songs.

Out of the twenty, three new tracks were recorded for exclusive inclusion on the album. “Lost and Found” and “Save Us” were released as singles; “Burn the Bridges” was not, and it still amazes me that it wasn’t.

In the wake of the compilation’s release, Feeder’s official website had a major overhaul in design. It was basically changed so it had the same colour theme as the album cover, but it also let users listen to short samples of the tracks that were included. “Burn the Bridges” was the one which I jumped around to and played my air guitar to all around my living room, but before I knew it the sample was over and I had to start from the beginning all over again.

My cousin bought “The Singles” for me and gave it to me as a present on Christmas Day. I then went ahead and broke my original Playstation 2 just as I inserted the disc into it. That was a bad time for me. That’s a whole different story.

The point is “Burn the Bridges” is one of Feeder’s best. I think it’s great.

Jamie.

My iPod #146: Lostprophets – Burn Burn

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I owe a lot to EA Sports and their FIFA series. Not only because they made me more of a football (soccer…) fan, but because the music they had on their soundtracks was amazing! If I wasn’t playing FIFA, I don’t know what music I’d be listening to now. I definitely wouldn’t have my diverse taste that I have in music, if I do say so myself.

It’s going to be ten years since I’ve started listening to Lostprophets, and it’s all because this song was in FIFA 2004. Oh wow. Remember those times when the whole year was in the title instead of the last two numbers? Yep, I have been playing FIFA for that long.

“Burn Burn” was released as the first single from the band’s second album “Start Something”, which is my personal favourite and what I consider to be their best. It was one of the songs on that particular FIFA game that I learned the words to and would sing-along to whenever it came on, just because it was so energy-inducing.

It’s all about rebellion, which ties in with the theme of “getting up and doing something” which is present throughout the album. There’s plenty of “gang vocals” too, and is a good song to yell to whilst on a drunken night out with your mates. I’m not speaking from experience, I’m just saying you may want to do that if you’re into those activities.

Jamie.

My iPod #145: Tyler, the Creator ft. Hodgy Beats – Burger

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Wolf. Gang. Wolf. Gang. Wolf. Gang. Wolf. Gang.

Whilst lying in bed after finishing GCSEs, Tyler, the Creator appeared in an interview on Channel 4. I was left perplexed at how he behaved, it was like watching a six year old in an adult’s body. I’d never heard of him before, but I certainly became eager to hear the music he did.

Mostly everyone knows him for “Yonkers” and its video where he eats a live cockroach and proceeds to hang himself. I won’t talk about that anymore though, you can observe that in your own time. This post is dedicated to “Burger”, ‘a pretty cool track’ according to Tyler himself.

It can be found on the extra disc of the deluxe edition of “Goblin”, and probably for good reason. “Goblin” by itself is a clusterfuck of an album where Tyler raps about relationships, killing people, burning shit and fucking school whilst under the watch of his ‘psychiatrist’ Dr. TC. “Burger” does not fit in the album’s concept whatsoever and would have been out of place if included on the original tracklist.

“Burger” is a song which you can sit, relax, and possibly take an illegal substance to as Tyler, with Hodgy Beats in the chorus rhyme about what they do best….. writing down lyrics on paper and busting them out on the microphone.

Hope you like it.

Jamie.

My iPod #144: The Tallest Man on Earth – Burden of Tomorrow

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There’s something about an album in which the songs have a musician playing their acoustic guitar with no other instruments. It’s very bare, vulnerable, naked, and yet so beautiful. It’s lovely to take a break from a continuing barrage of instruments and relax, turn off your mind and float downstream.

“Burden of Tomorrow” is the second track on “The Wild Hunt”, the second album by the Swedish folk artist The Tallest Man on Earth. This song was not the first I’d heard by him, but the track I originally listened to really stayed with me for some time that I had to hear the rest of the album.

I am not able to sing along to it. I do not know the lyrics. I just really admire the music, his voice and the chords he plays. I could only wish to produce something like this. It’s very uplifting.

Take some time out to listen. It was a very short post, I know. I’m sorry.

Jamie.

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