Blog
22
Jul
2010
Background to Songs: The Only Thing That’s Missing
Written by Jimmy
Verse, Verse, Chorus. Repeat. Middle 8. Chorus. That’s pretty typical. This is Verse, Verse, Chorus, Chorus, Chorus. We just couldn’t be bothered…
5 Things:
- Lyrically, song is at three levels. Whoa. Deep. Level 3 sort of ruins it. Not so deep. Level 1 is just, London weather sucks. Spain is better. London Studio sucks. Spain is better. Let’s bitch and discuss. Level 2 is about a guy who’s not doin’ what he needs to do – not stepping up, he’s just missing. Level 3 was we needed a line in a verse and came up with Seniorita Bonita. Crap. And it meant that now there’s a girl in Spain and one in London and so the guy really is a jerk. All to get a couple words. Finally, I just really like a song that stopped the whole ‘the only thing that is missing is you’ and went – nope, the only thing missing is me.
- The band couldn’t get over Gus’s singing of Fogged up Bus. Everyone kept asking if I really wanted to be so ’15’ on the song. I kept shouting thru the studio ‘Its fogged up bus, it’s fogged up bus.’ That apparently made things worse and sent Cello player into more laughter. She laughs at funeral songs.
- Martyn delivers a cracking, cracking guitar sol.
- Hannah delivers a cracking little ‘The only thing that’s missing’ bvox in outro that we love
- And, let’s not put too fine a point on it – we did reggae. Sort of. No steel drum. But there’s Gus, singin’ away Marley-like. Sort of. A nice summer song we hope.
Jimmy