tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post8170769701858052304..comments2024-02-05T10:41:31.777-05:00Comments on I Saw Lightning Fall: Music To Write By: Flyleaf's "City Kids"Loren Eatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-13792152752024722372014-10-16T16:00:36.134-04:002014-10-16T16:00:36.134-04:00Hiya doing, Jim? Good to hear from you.
Yeah, it&...Hiya doing, Jim? Good to hear from you.<br /><br />Yeah, it's always interesting when the singer splits from a band. Lacey Mosley (now Lacey Sturm) hasn't released a solo album yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if she does. <br /><br />I also don't write to music with lyrics. (I write to a gray-noise generator most of the time.) But I find that songs with lyrics tend to get my proverbial motor running to write.Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-42799911852831305052014-10-16T01:40:48.633-04:002014-10-16T01:40:48.633-04:00When I started reading this my first thoughts were...When I started reading this my first thoughts were of the band Marillion. They’re the most successful band to emerge from the UK’s 1980s neo-progressive rock scene and I was a huge fan right from the jump. At first they got compared to Gabriel era Genesis and, yes, there’s more than a touch there but after the first few singles they started to find their own sound and this was in a big way due to the lead singer Fish. When he left after three superb albums everyone expected the band to fold—I suppose a bit like when Waters left Pink Floyd—but they didn’t. They hired a new singer, Steve Hogarth (H to his friends) and went on. The first two albums felt like business as usual to be honest which surprised me because Fish was the songwriter but starting with <i>This Strange Engine</i> in 1996 Hogarth started to impose more of himself and took the band in a completely different direction. There’re now been twelve albums with Hogarth at the helm. Fish has continued being Fish. He’s released ten albums to date. I buy his sight unseen and never been disappointed. I did that with Marillion too for a while but they lost me with <i>marillion.com</i>. I never write to music with lyrics anymore. I used to be able to but now I find it too distracting so you can imagine how overjoyed I was to hear that Pink Floyd’s new (and surely final) album will be mostly instrumental tracks.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com