13 January, 2003.

Another song that I always assume is more recent than it actually is, or maybe it all just sounds the same these days. Yes, I’m well aware that I have just channelled some elderly relative, moaning about the music these youngsters listen to nowadays, but there is a certain generic sound to a lot of the bands over the last few decades.

Written by lead singer Grant Nicholas, this was the second single released from Feeder’s 2002 album Comfort in Sound. It was written whilst the band were going through a difficult time, following the death of drummer Jon Lee who took his own life.

This was the last song written for the album and Nicholas recalls that he didn’t want fans buying their music because they felt sorry for the band as a result of Lee’s death, he wanted them to think it was a good album worth paying money for.

On its release the song became a UK top ten hit, with some claiming that it carried the album’s success on its shoulders. It spent eight weeks on the chart and peaked at number ten whilst the album itself went platinum, selling over 300,000 copies. I guess the fans thought it was worth paying money for after all.