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My iPod #336: The Pigeon Detectives – Everybody Wants Me

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Turns out The Pigeon Detectives released their fourth album just a few months ago. Their fourth. I did not know the band were still together. It is a shame how the indie band from Leeds seemed to fade away after they got so many people excited with their debut album “Wait for Me” released back in 2007. That album, filled with anthems about relationships, got very popular managing to peak at number three in the charts. How could they follow it up? Quite quickly, ‘cos a year later came the second album “Emergency“. People liked that too. Not as much as the first though. Got to number five. And the singles released from it didn’t grab people’s attention like those from the debut too.

“Everybody Wants Me” was the second single from “Emergency” which, I think, is unusual for a track that closes out an album. It is a very easy song to play. Before typing this, I literally learned how to play the track on the guitar because it only consists of four chords (A-B-D-E if you want to know, A-B-D for the verses and E-D-A-D for the bridge in that order).

Overall, “Everybody Wants Me” is a nice song to listen to. Just a standard verse-chorus-verse-bridge (etc etc.) structured track, where the singer moans about all the girls wanting him now he’s famous. He doesn’t want them though. He wants a certain someone. Who that someone is is not told.

My iPod #335: Nine Black Alps – Everybody Is

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Here’s another one by Nine Black Alps. Just when you started to think they were never coming, you get two on the trot.

This time though, it’s the almost-title-track “Everybody Is” from the band’s debut album “Everything Is“. I believe that it is not available on some editions of the 2005 release, maybe it wasn’t on the American edition or something, but I was lucky enough to get the limited edition which did have it. It is also on the “Shot Down” single if anyone has that.

The track arrives near the back end of the album coming after you have experienced the pulsating energy that pours into your ears from listening to “Just Friends”. Looking back now, I don’t think it took me that long to get into “Everybody Is”. There’s something that’s very reassuring and comforting about it. Even though the song clearly states that people are liars and hypocrites, the track is the expression of someone’s acceptance of this situation. It’s probably one of the most happier songs on the album, actually.

Like every other song on “Everything Is” (bar two), it’s loud. Very big sounding guitars, and quite a busy bass line too.

If you have the version of the album that doesn’t have this, you’re missing out bruh.