Keane ‘Under The Iron Sea’ Podcast 5 – Tim谈关于Crystal Ball 和 Try Again
2008-07-27 影音资料 enchinya
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Crystal Ball
Tim: “Our touring schedule over the last couple of years meant that we were on the road all the time, and were never kinda stopping to really appreciate what was going and just spend time having fun – just the three of us functioning as friends and as people, like you normally do. And I think we all started to recede slightly into this little world where we weren’t really communicating or really expressing anything, and we weren’t really feeling anything. And it kind of came to a head when we were in America in June last year and I remember sitting on the bus, and I was trying to write a song and I realised that I didn’t have anything to say at all, and I didn’t have any feelings about anything – good feelings or bad feelings. That was a really scary for me, because I’ve always had lots to say, and lots of opinions whether right or wrong. We then ended up having a massive row about something a couple of days later and it came out of that that we were all feeling this sense of numbness, this feeling of kinda fading away as people. And I just tried to write about that, and it ended up becoming Crystal Ball.
It’s quite a chirpy song – it’s a weird one. I’ve always loved bands (The Smiths is an example that spring to mind), bands that can write a song that’s really energised and … ‘pop’ I guess, but is also really meaningful, but also really powerful and sad. And Morrissey is just the king of that, and I think the Pet Shop Boys were another band that did that really well – and those were two of the first bands I ever got into, so I think that’s still a big part of our music; and I guess Crystal Ball is probably the best example of that.”
Try Again
Tim: “Try Again – that was another song that I actually wrote at home rather than on the bus, when we had a break in touring and I just remember being really pleased with it, because I wrote it in one of those periods when I was convinced I was never going to write a decent song ever again – probably being very melodramatic about the whole thing. But you do get into those sorts of periods of writers block, and Try Again just came out quite easily. And I didn’t really know whether it was any good or not, but I played it to Tom and when we were in Stockholm last year we did a demo of it, and I remember sitting in the control room when Tom was singing it, and just getting absolutely goosebumps from hearing him sing it for the first time. It just transformed the song into this beautiful modern love song, and that was a real moment in the story of the album because it suddenly started to feel like things were coming together, and that we could still create music together in a really exciting way – so it’s one of my favourites just from a personal point of view.
Without me really wanting it to, it came out as a very modern … – I always think about it as being a commuter’s love song. There’s something weird about that feeling of being on a train really really late at night when there’s just a handful of you there, and I always wonder what everyone’s story is – especially people who’ve been to work and probably got up at some horrendous hour of the morning, and they’re traipsing back to their home somewhere in the suburbs. And it always seems to me, as if youth has started to be replaced by a dreary routine, and with that all the hopes and dreams of being a young person gradually, without even noticing, they start to ebb away; and a love that’s at the start of the marriage or whatever it is, just starts to disappear. And it seems like there’s something seriously fundamentally wrong with the way we conduct our lives in Britain definitely – it’s probably the same all over the world – and it always makes me really sad, and I guess the idea of the song is just as if… when it gets to the middle 8 of the song, it’s as if your eyes opened for a moment and you suddenly realise you’ve waited so much time and want to have one chance kinda grab it back and make up for all that lost time. It’s a really sad song, but it’s one of the few songs on the record that has a sort of glimmer of hope(!).”