Liars - It Fit When I Was A Kid
These days, I've just about given up on songs. There have been too many of them, and they're all pretty much the same. Never mind all of that restrictive verse and chorus stuff, why do so many musician feel the need to take a perfectly good piece of music and make it banal by singing over it? I hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but if you don't have anything worth saying, why not try not saying it?

All of which brings me neatly round to the subject of Liars. They're a three-piece experimental rock band who seem to suffer from the same problems that the early King Crimson did, namely that while the music was top stuff, the lyrics were unbearably naff. Here's It Fit When I Was A Kid, a single from their 2006 album Drum's Not Dead. If someone could try to persuade me that naff is the new artful, I'd be very grateful. I probably laugh at you, but I'd still appreciate the attempt.

Liars - It Fit When I Was A Kid
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