I had a friend who like “Does If Offend You, Yeah?”. I don’t think he’d actually heard their songs before, he just liked the band’s name because of how confrontational and threatening it sounded. That phrase was actually chosen when the synth player and lead singer were watching The Office one day, and Ricky Gervais said it when they turned on the TV. Quite funny.

This was in 2007 when the group was considered to be one of the ‘next big things’ to come by NME. I didn’t know what to expect from the group because I had never their songs either. “We Are Rockstars” came out….. thought that was alright but it wasn’t anything amazing. NME made a big deal out of nothing, I feel. Never followed the group so much afterwards.

Still, my sister borrowed the album from a friend of hers just because she liked “We Are Rockstars”. I still haven’t listened to “You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into” to this day. How can I talk about “Epic Last Song” if I didn’t bother to, you may ask. Well, it was released as a single. The video played on MTV2. I liked it. Here I am now.

If you weren’t able to guess, “Epic Last Song” is the final song from “You Have No Idea….” Whether it’s epic or not is for you to decide. It isn’t even the longest song on the album. But it is a very happy song, one about feeling lucky to have been in a relationship for a long time. And being surprised that they’ve stuck with you for that long.

My favourite part is the last minute or so when the singing finishes (not saying it’s bad), leaving the guitar and synthesizer playing in unison with some very heavy drums. Really hits you that it’s all gonna end soon at that point.