Another Form of Relief

now
Throwaway pop. Nothing more, nothing less.

then
There was a time when Nada Surf ranked amongst my favourite bands. You have to go back a fair way, but there was a point around the time of their third album (Let Go) that they seemed like they would become huge. Huge for doing something right too. The album was really just an ‘all things to all people’, but somehow it all held together to make a superb album. Even better than their fantastic debut High/Low, which is saying something.

Thing is, it never really happened for Nada Surf like it should have done. So they went away and came back with another album. Pleasant enough but ultimately throwaway. Then they did they same. I fear this is all we’ll get from them now. I suppose it must work for them to a degree, but it still makes one wonder ‘what if’?

There’s also an unintentional overlap with yesterday’s song here too, meaning you get another bout of joy all about wishing you had that perfect relationship. I wonder if my iPod (and the overly complicated method I have for picking songs on here) is trying to tell me something.

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