I haven’t listened to this song in a while, actually. Not because I don’t like it as much as I did when I first saw it on the television all those years ago in 2007, but only because it hasn’t been in my mind lately. Nothing to make me sad or upset has occurred within my life to make me want to play this track. I’m a very happy person, you know. But it’s one that a lot of people can connect with, especially because of its subject matter.
Simon Neil wrote it as a tribute to his mother who passed away in 2004. The track is one of the slower and quiet ones on “Puzzle” and probably the most emotional. The track guides the listeners through Neil’s emotions around the time that his mother’s condition was deteriorating and sums his current feelings with four simple words – ‘it’s not getting easier’.
Although admitting that it was a tough song to record, “Folding Stars” is definitely a highlight from “Puzzle”. A very sweet song indeed.
Sorry people. I know I didn’t do a post yesterday, I was busy playing FIFA and NBA at my friend’s house before he moves to university next week.
Those of you who were expecting a blog, I know I could have said something and I do apologise. It’s only good that whenever I miss a day I follow it up with two songs the next. Here’s the first.
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…”Mon’ the Biff! Mon’ the Biff! Mon’ the Biff!” It’s only bloody Biffy Clyro!
I watched them headline the Reading Festival on the BBC iPlayer two weeks ago, and it wasn’t hard to notice that there was a large decrease in reception whenever they played material pre-Puzzle and Only Revolutions. I’m not going to complain; I thought it was a bit funny, actually. I’m not saying that the people who were there weren’t Biffy Clyro fans, but it was obvious to assume when they became them. It seems the band aren’t into their past material so much, I think only two songs and a verse and chorus from tracks before 2007 were performed. But if Biffy Clyro enjoy their newer stuff that made them much more popular than they were before, who can blame ’em?
“57” was the first song I heard by them when its video played on MTV2. They look so young, and very clean. They’re all wearing clothes, and Simon Neil has hair like Frodo. But for a band that looked so innocent, the song was very different from anything I’d listened to before. The song is good, but at the time I didn’t think it was something that made me interested in the band. Later on, “Questions and Answers” came on the TV. That’s nice too. It’s very calm by Biff standards. That was pretty much everything I’d heard by them. But it was in year seven (2006/07) that Biffy Clyro became… mainstream. *gasp* oh my god.
I’m only joking. I feel I should save that for another time, ’cause I’ll be babbling on for ages about nothing that has to do with the song for today. Bubbles! It’s the third song from the band’s fifth album “Only Revolutions”, and was eventually as its penultimate single in spring 2010. It was a song of theirs that I couldn’t stop singing to myself. It begins with a tickling lick on the guitar which is interrupted as the band begin to play. They’ve got that quiet verse/loud chorus dynamic going on too, just like Pixies and Nirvana, which can never go wrong if you know what you’re doing. And then, just when you think the song should finishes, the band rocks out for a minute and in steps Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age to finish everything off with a guitar solo. It’s crazy. It’s brilliant.
The Music in My Ears 