My iPod #141: Editors - Bullets

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Hi everybody.

It's time for another Editors song, and again it is one from their first album. Like "Blood", "Bullets" was also released twice which explains why it has two different videos. The first video plays the album version whereas the second plays a re-recorded version which the band did with the producer Jacknife Lee, a man who has done work with Biffy Clyro, Snow Patrol and Weezer.

If any of you are wondering what's different in the song in both of the videos, I can only remember the arrangement being a bit different. I don't like the album version and therefore have not listened to it for a while. It was the second out of the two which I saw first on the television. Nothing much happens in it. Lead singer Tom Smith sings in slow motion and looks at an elderly man, a girl dances in slow motion and two guys drive a car into a field and proceed to vandalise it. It's not a very exciting video.

The song itself is very solid though. You've got Chris Urbanowicz's delivering that wailing siren-sounding riff which repeats itself during the choruses and outro. I'm sure the drumming pattern doesn't change but it certainly hits hard. It's very snare-y. A lot more so than "Blood". That doesn't take anything away though. Lyrically the song is very repetitive but it's good that the melody isn't annoying otherwise it would be very tiresome. The chorus "You don't need this disease" just runs into itself over and over again it becomes something of a madness mantra.

The word 'bullets' isn't mentioned anywhere in the lyrics. Listen to the song and figure out why it may be called "Bullets" because thinking about it now, I can't tell you.

YOUDONTNEEDTHISDISEASEYOUDONTYOUDONTNEEDTHISDISEASEYOUDONT.

Bye.

Jamie.

My iPod #114: Editors - Blood

I've contemplated on whether I should keep this song on here. "Blood" is an alright song, but I don't really like Editors anymore. I wasn't a big fan of them in the first place. Their singles are pretty good, but there was nothing that appealing about the band that made want to listen to all of their albums or whatever.

"Blood" was released as a single from the band's debut album "The Back Room" in 2005, the year that all these 'post-punk revival'/'indie' bands started releasing new music. It was an exciting time. I think the first song I heard by Editors - this may apply for many other fans too - was "Munich", which has become to be the band's most notable song. They released that song once in 2005, and then again in 2006. It only took two releases, but the band got their first top-ten single.

The band did the same thing with Blood, only it didn't do so well the second time reaching 39 when a year earlier it got to 18 the year before. Chart positions are not the main focus though. The main priority is to tell you why I like this song.

Well, one thing is that sound that the lead guitarist Chris Urbanowicz gets on his instrument. It's got one similar to a police siren, and is used throughout their first album and their follow up "An End Has a Start". He left the band this year. The chorus is probably the best part of the song, I've always wondered about the way Tom Smith pronounces veins. To me it sounds like "venes" as in 'jeans' or 'genes', I guess the actual way it said wouldn't have sounded that good.

If you want to find out more about Editors, search them up on Wikipedia and listen to their stuff on YouTube.

Until tomorrow.

Jamie.