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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 #138: Feeder – Buck Rogers

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One of the better songs that the early twenty-first century years brought us.

Feeder have a fantastic set of singles; “Buck Rogers” is one which many people may be familiar with. Even people who don’t know Feeder are might have heard this song in a TV show or an advert, it’s just one of those songs.

Yet again, I saw the “Buck Rogers” video on the television and was left in awe. The camera work and the special effects, the TARDIS elephant they walk into and that slow sweeping shot of the band playing the last two choruses at the end. The song itself is very catchy – it’s stays in your head for days and days, but that video…. mm-mm-mm. If you look at it, you may think I am exaggerating but for me it’s a perfect video for the song.

It was even funnier when I was in Year 6 and found out that one of my friends knew the song because of its presence in Gran Turismo 3 and we would sing it out loud during lessons (because those really didn’t matter at the time) and classmates would laugh whilst the teacher asked us to stop singing. Those were good times.

It was also one of the first songs I learned to play on the guitar – albeit only on the low ‘E’ string, but I thought I’d actually done pretty well to play along with it without tabs.

Here is it’s Wikipedia page; there you will find information at length about the song. But for now, enjoy it. Comment on it if you want. Give it a chance.

Jamie.