“A ROSE-TINTED LOOK BACK AT BEING A TEENAGER”
“It came out as a five-minute epic. It was meant to be a three-minute, very straightforward thing.”
53 WONDER DAYS
Thunder From: Wonder Days, 2015
“This was an interesting song to write, because it started off with what you hear – the basic guitar from our first album. But not too similar, hopefully. So that kind of appealed to me. I thought: ‘We’ve not made an album in what, six and a half years or whatever it is. This could be the start of the album.’ But, as is often the case when you’re writing, songs can develop in strange ways. The whole middle section of the song, with its Brian Wilson-esque harmonies, I’m not sure where that came from… Well actually I do. I’m a massive Beach Boys fan, but I never thought that would surface in a Thunder song. It’s got that kind of blues vocal ‘singer sings, band answer’ sort of thing which has been used so many times over the years – g, … that kind of rootsy, Robert Johnson thing. But it’s interesting because it touches on the bluesy end of what Thunder do.
