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Did I catch your name?
Was it something weird, or something strange?Did I catch your name? Did I catch your name?!
Was it something strange?
Right after this bridge, the guitar joins the chorus. It’s not a riff, it’s not a solo—the guitar is singing. The song is a duet. There are two singers, singing two sides of an argument. There’s an electric harmony.
I’ve written about many songs, stories, and feelings on this journal. If I had to give out awards to certain posts, Electric Harmony would get an award for being The Song To Write About. I needed an excuse to show the world how good this song is. That excuse became this blog, and gave me a reason to share another 46 (and counting!) songs.
It’s not just this song though. The Damnwells is a damn well band. I first heard them when I was living in İzmir (around the same time I discovered and obsessed over The Rifles), while I was exploring my new PowerBook G4 and its software—The Damnwells was the first thing I heard when I discovered iTunes had radio stations from the US!
The band went through a few things that some other bands I mentioned before went through—by the same record labels too. They even made a documentary out of it.
Despite all the ups and downs, and not having the musical career they truly deserved, The Damnwells produced an impressive amount and quality of songs.
Cell phones and stars only tease you,
They never take you home.
After a bit of a time, they just created one of the best albums of the century, to give away for free.
“I know everyone’s broke, maybe I can supply the soundtrack.” was the quote that stuck with me for the release, and the album managed to be just that, at least for me.
It also gave me my favorite rendition of my favorite song from the album—despite them no longer being a couple, this is the sweetest video ever for me.
They have had more than a few cute moments when they were together, it seems.
And the humble-brag continues in part two, especially near the end.
Yeah, The Damnwells provided many songs to the Chaos Theory movie—one of my all-time favourite Ryan Reynolds movies.
After the free album, came a crowd-sourced one.
And it was good.
But all good things must come to an end. And so did The Damnwells, with one last album. It brought together all the band members that had left throughout the years, but despite the homecoming, it felt like a very Alex Dezen-y album. It felt personal. I’m certain it was.