Ed is Dead: Nosferatu D2
Every band I’ve ever loved has let me down eventually
The worst album will always be the last one
It’s a grower, yeah, but it never grew on me
I really should stop writing about Nosferatu D2. They never recorded anything properly and only played a handful of gigs, the last of which was a year and a half ago. Yet I still keep coming back to them.
It was the above lines in A Footnote that brought me back this time. I don’t know if it’s just the way things work, but it certainly holds true to my own tastes. Perhaps it’s the constant search for the next favourite that makes the previous one lose their appeal quickly. It could be something else entirely. It’s true though. There are a ton of bands where I adored the first album or two and now don’t even bother listening to what they put out. When I do listen, I tend to regret it and return to the older stuff. Maybe all bands should break up after one album or a set time period or something. It would certainly keep things fresh.
So I don’t know whether or not I’m saddened by the loss of Nosferatu D2 so quickly. Ben Parker is definitely one hell of a songwriter and is doing good stuff within his Superman Revenge Squad project. It’s kind of a shame that we won’t get to see what ND2 would have come up with, but at least they can’t eventually let me down.
Ben’s playing a birthday show next month with the drummer from ND2 (his brother?), making it a reunion show of sorts. Hopefully whoever records Parker’s shows and posts them to Last.FM will record this one too.