Thursday, 5 March 2009

With a face like this I won't break many hearts




I first heard this song at a Christmas Concert in secondary school. The band played a few fairly medicore Oasis covers, then played this with the comment "We're not supposed to play this but we're playing it anyway", which was incredibly rock and roll to a 14 year old like me.

I'd no idea who it was by or even what the song was called, but I remembered the distinctive chorus of "I've got nothing to do but sit around and get screwed up on you" throughout my teenage years, as I sat alone in my bedroom listening to music and thinking about girls I'd never probably even pluck up the courage to speak to, never mind go out with.

Time moved on, and the internet arrived in my house and one day I remembered about this song that echoed at various times in my youth and I looked up the lyrics, and downloaded it via Napster (in it's naughty, illegal days). I was a little thrilled for some unknown reason to find out that Therapy? were a band from good old Northern Ireland, as if their origin was ever significant in anyway. Maybe the two fingers to the establishment of performing the song in my fairly straight-laced grammar school endeared it to me even further.

I've never really had any interest in Therapy? outside of this track, and another called "Lonely, Cryin', Only" which was such a minor hit that to even call it a hit in the first place is somewhat inflating it's impact (it's not even featured on their Greatest Hits album), but I've found both of this tracks important over the years, and the latter even more for some reason.

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