NORTHERN PLANNER

I'm not sure anyone can really have a favourite song, not really. Maybe a top 10, although I struggle to even narrow down my top 10 albums.

This however is my favourite at the moment. 

 

The video is pretty close to the released audio version. There are many reasons I like this track.

Some of it is to do with deceptive cadence, where you don't realise how much a song is building pace and tension until the crescendo hits.

It's like when I get on a bike after a tough day and didn't realise how much tension was building up until I can't stop pedalling like crazy, despite the lava agony flowing through my legs.

Some of it is the story in the song It reminds me of something that happened to me a long time ago and something that happened to me more recently. 

What's truly amazing though, the original version is just ok. It was on an early album, same lyrics, same chords. Just none of drama, none of the sheer SOARING this version achieves.

That's worth bearing in mind if you're doing presentations or crafting creative work. It's not the components, the execution is everything.

I saw them play live earlier this year, the last gig I went to before lockdown. I was with my best friend, last time we saw each other for four months. I'll never forget how it felt when they played this and it reached the crescendo.

Some things are correct, and good. Some things just go deeper and connect. I think it's worth chasing the latter. 

There's too much experience out there, we're all a bit numb really aren't we? When you find whatever it might be that makes you feel something, eventually you realise you need to work for it, fight for it and protect it when you’re lucky enough to attain it. You risk it hurting or falling down around your ears, but if it’s really worth it, well it’s worth it.

If you find whatever makes you feel something, fight for it with all you have. If it doesn’t work out, at least you know.