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# Music Of The Week, Part 1

I feel rain in the movies and the talk before the screen lights / I hear strings in the park / I don’t like to call her right / Except when its too late at night / I mostly just think in the dark

“See These Bones” by Nada Surf, off “Lucky”

The song slowly builds from a pretty indifferent first verse, but by the time you hit the first chorus you’re beginning to be sucked in, and upon reaching “Do you remember …” before the final chorus you’re completely sold on how great the song is.

I wasn’t a massive fan of Let Go, the only other album I’ve heard by Nada Surf, so listening to Lucky was a surprise – It’s a very, very good album. If you like Teenage Fanclub or Death Cab For Cutie and you’ve never heard Nada Surf, you’ll love this album.

Whose Authority and I Like What You Say are probably the two other immediate attention grabbers, you can’t help but start toe-tapping and singing along to the chorus of the latter, while the former, probably because the guitar at the beginning of the song reminds me of the Lightning Seeds, makes me want to go and dig out all the great Britpop music I’ve got and forgotten about.

Thinking about it, the whole album puts me in that mood – It takes me back to a time where the biggest problem I had was working out which black t-shirt to wear and which indie club to go to.

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