do you know how many people misquote that erm quote and say ‘savage beast‘? no, me neither. but it’s got to be a big number…
Anyway…
Last night’s drive to the house in Brixton was accompanied by Smokers Outside the Hospital by Editors.
When I say accompanied I mean the whole trip.
It’s brilliant (Ted).
So brilliant that it’s only surpassed by this morning’s dose of Sigur Ros.
Back to Smokers Outside the Hospital.
I loved this track the first time I heard it on Mark and Lard Radcliffe and Maconie on Radio 2 a couple of weeks ago.
The track has a slow build but makes it to an anthemic hook that could have been written by Embrace, U2 and Snow Patrol had they met on a boozy night after a large quantatity of McCafferey’s had been put away.
The vocalist is reminiscent of Brad Roberts of Crash Test Dummies (the Canadian group who had a stormer in 1993 with Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm).
And that’s the thing…
Is Smokers Outside the Hospital so notably good because it’s as different from the bulk of the pap that’s in today’s charts as Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm was different from the stuff that was around in 1993?
Whatever.
It’s a brilliant track.