Some Nights by Fun

I am quite impressed with this band. After their monster hit last summer We Are Young there was every likelihood that hey would go the way of a million one hit wonders before them. This has not been the case. After We Are Young finally, after too long actually, moved off the radio the title cut soon replaced it and if anything might be an even greater production.

I wrote last summer of the first single and compared the band to Queen and having listened to the full album it is clear that the similarity is real.

A voice prone to full bore opera large production values Some Nights is a great album. This is a band that will need singles, the songs need to be heard a few times for the average person to appreciate them. It is not one hook, one needs to hear them a bit, it takes a little listening.

Currently the third single Carry On is everywhere you turn and for me might be the strongest accomplishment of the album. Combining everything that made the first two albums a success this single is a great example of all their talents. A positive message appears in their songs. One could do much worse than to give their down in the dumps teenager, struggling with the vagaries of friendship and being sixteen, an album of perseverance and positiveness with even a song called It Gets Better.

Great talent, great message, high hopes for their future success. They deserve it all.

We Are Young by Fun

Remember when it was considered selling out to put your music in a commercial. As the bands of the sixties finally broke down in the face of the monies that were offered for commercial endorsement it has gone from being considered selling out after you have success to a method of gaining success.

We have seen several bands place their music on commercials and then go from that to mainstream success. I guess one could say that it is not much different from having your music featured in a movie or a television show and gaining popularity from that. Certainly Grey's Anatomy all by itself has made popular a whole group of bands and artists with music featured on it's episodes.

I believe that this song was featured during an add during the Super Bowl. It might have been the one where the car was parachuted to Earth.

In anycase sometime in February this song became heavily featured on what we call " The Upstairs Playlist" which are songs that my son plays and plays. We were all sixteen once. We remember when songs were the most important soundtrack to our lives.

This is a very good song. Good beat, fun to play. It is everywhere currently. I listened to the whole album and certainly some of the comparisons I have heard to Queen in the operatic and at times over the top nature of their songs are apt.

There are good songs out there. One just has to listen and look.

Someone That I Used To Know by Gotye

About six weeks ago my son insisted that I listen to a song on Spotify by a group called Fun. In doing so I noticed that the number one track on Spotify overall was this song by a band called Gotye.

I think this song wins. I do not know anything about this band, I think I may have heard Australia as a home country but I have not confirmed.

This song is haunting. The singer on the high notes has a definite Sting quality to his voice. This is never a bad thing. Music is so fragmented these days, any song that is not rap that makes it into the consciousness of teenagers is rare and must have a broad based appeal.

This song is catchy and well done. Surely one of the best new songs I have heard recently.