"The Coast Is Always Changing" is a track from Maxïmo Park's first album "A Certain Trigger" which was released in 2005. The eighth track on that album if I remember correctly.
It was a single too. Their very very very first single. Like even before "Apply Some Pressure". I didn't know this song existed until the video played on MTV2, and that was way after the album had been released anyway.
One thing that irks me about this song, and others on "Trigger", is that it sounds a lot different from "Apply Some Pressure", "Graffiti" and "Going Missing". Has anyone else noticed this apart from me? In terms of production this song, "I Want You to Stay" and "Signal and Sign" for example sound really rough. A bit like demo recordings. Whereas the former three sound really polished. I don't know if that's just me. Maybe it is.
I do like this song though, however different it sounds to the other singles.
Ahh... the first video by Blink-182 that I can actually remember watching on the TV.
I must have been about nine or something. You know when you're a child you have the tendency to wake up at times of the day which would seem ridiculous to any adolescent. Getting out of bed and watching music TV at six in the morning to watch TV were some of the best times I had before my mum and my sister woke up and didn't let me watch anything.
I don't know how I started watching MTV2 and being interested in music, but it's a good thing I did. It was both that and football that made up my childhood.
I'm sure that I've made clear how I came across Blink-182 in previous posts. So I don't really know what else to say to you.
One thing that may be interesting is that I recently listened to the band's self-titled album. I had read many times from various reviews that it was a change from their 'toilet-humour stuff' to a more personal and darker approach to their music. That is something I can definitely agree with.
Another thing that I noticed was how Tom seemed to dominate the album. Most songs are solely sung by Tom; Mark comes in with a few backing vocals here and there, and has a few songs which only have him at the lead. However from listening to their past material, you can tell that it was pretty much a tag-team thing and the albums had a much more equal contribution by the two.
It was the last single from that album, and then the band broke up a few months later in 2005.
'I've been here before a few times, and I'm quite aware we're dying.'
