After hearing this song on Radio One last week, I was straight on Wikipedia trying to find out who sung it, and after blagging my way into their PR lady’s good books I’m now blessed with their phenomenal new album! Get in!
But before you can get your eager molars into their album review, I’m going to tease you with this tasty little morsel of a review - just to get your Deadman juices flowing nicely.
Despite the single opening with the rather interesting line; “So sick of the hobos always begging for change, I don't like how I gotta work and they just sit around and get paid” which might put a few listeners off… not to mention the homeless - although I’m not quite sure they’d have a radio to hand.
Anyway, the song takes a great big musical swipe at all of the things that annoy us all on a day to day basis, I mean imagine Peter Kaye in musical form; saying things we all think, but never really bang on about. That’s Theory Of A Deadman’s single in a beautiful iTunes-shaped nutshell so if you want to sing your day-to-day blues away, then hell, this is the song for you.
Tyler Connolly’s voice is not something to be snubbed either, as his croaky, almost country singer style voice delivers the lyrics in a way that just wouldn’t sound ‘quite right’ if sung in any other way. If you imagine Nickelback and Staind coming together to produce something new, fresh and exciting, but still with a rock attitude edge this is pretty much what you get from these kids. And they’re not bad to look at either.
Plus, even if you don’t like the song (because you have no taste in music) you can always sing the line; “I still hate my job, my boss is a dick, I don't get paid nearly enough to put up with all of his shit" in the office, and if you get into trouble, hey! You were just singing along to the radio!
Get on it boys and girls. Rating: 5/5 - It’s already in my ‘Songs I like’ folder
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