Well, well, well. It’s been a long time coming. But it’s here again! It’s the series that seems to just keep on going. It’s My iPod time. And now we’ve reached the fifth letter of the alphabet…. ‘E’. And we start off with a fire cracker of a track.

“E Numbers” was actually the first track to be revealed from Dananananaykroyd’s second (and sadly, final) album “There Is a Way” in 2011. The track was uploaded on the band’s SoundCloud account and onto YouTube in April of that year, two months before the album was physically released.

I did not know this. I was too busy revising for GCSEs, you see. But it was in the last week of exams, maybe even the last day, when “Muscle Memory” appeared on my television screen. That was the first I had heard from the ‘Kroyd’ in ages, but of course all fans knew that something was coming for about two months. Listened to “There Is a Way” when I got back home, and ended up as a very happy listener by the end of it.

But yeah, the song. “E Numbers” is the third track on “There Is a Way”, coming after the ‘Hey, we’re back’ track of “Reboot” and the “You better fuckin’ buckle your seatbelts” track of “All Us Authors”. There isn’t much of an intro to get you settled into the track; it kind of just launches into this blaring loud drone of guitars and what sounds like really bad horn playing in the background before co-vocalists Calum Gunn and John Bailie Jnr start singing.

I won’t try and be pretentious by coming up with theories about what the song is about. ‘Cos I have no idea. That may annoy a few, but I just really like it. It contains lyrics about seeing things through prisms which is reflected in the album’s cover art, and some about feeding kids with e numbers and wondering on where our tantrums go….. so I’m guessing it’s a song about growing up? Maybe? Still not sure.

Whatever. It’s a real fast song on an album that never lets up on energy. You get one track that’s powerful and punchy and the band just keep feeding you and feeding you and feeding you. Listen to “There Is a Way”; I advise you.

I miss them. Rest in peace.