You owe me.

So I had almost decided that I was going to post a blues track track today but I promised a friend of mine that I would post about this track which happens to be one of her favs (Yeah, it's my blog and I can say favs). I also happened to introduce my friend to this track. So friend you owe me. Big.

The track's called "Not for all the love in the world" and it's by this band called The Thrills. They're probably more known than the posts about the bands before (except maybe MGMT, those guys are HUGE). They also happen to be Irish which gives them the presumption of being pretty damn good. Seriously, what is in that beer? 

The song's from their 2004 release Lets Bottle Bohemia. Besides being a wicked cool album name, this song is one for keeps. It starts off with this really nice mix of the synth and the piano. And there's never enough of that going around so kudos to them. But the song comes to life with the crashing of the cymbals. And with Conor Deasy at the same time crooning "Baby lets split tonight, I got a tank full of gas to light", you know you're into something good. The song is full of those laconic sort of lines where those two lines tell a lot more than one would imagine. 

Now about the song. It seems to be about this guy who is  trying to convince the girl to split with him but she says "not for all the love in the world". What a bitch. And it might seem like the guy's desperate and stuff (which is kinda true) but most of all it's about how this girl's probably been hurt in the past ("you left your heart in the hands of a juggling clown") and is scared about getting into anything with this guy. That being said it sort of bites her in the ass later when she see realizes that she fucked up ("But she didn't realize, now that's a lot of love") and kept screwing up with the wrong guys ("and all the underdogs get laid") and that really sums up the melancholy in the song. The song is full of these digs at people and how simple stuff actually is, like when Conor Deasy says "People aren't puzzles to be figured out".  But overall it's one of those songs that tells a complete story which you see playing in your head for those three and a half minutes. And that just adds to the whole after taste of the song which is pretty damn good. 

Cheers,

Coomar.

P.S- If you liked this you should also check out songs like "Teenager" and "Nothing changes around here" by them.