Keane's songs

Hi! this blog is dedicated to the beautiful discography of Keane and rare songs of them. Here you find all about their music :D Hope you like it! Send a message if you have any suggestion :D

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Keane cover from The cult’s song She sells sanctuary. Realeased as a b-side from A bad dream single. It's the first song released since June 2001 ("She Has No Time") that includes acoustic guitar on the recording.

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[About why this song always finishes the shows] "It’s such a gargantuan song, with so much passion and soul-searching, that nothing else can follow it. We’ve tried, but it’s so final that it has to be at the end of something. Some songs are just like that. Atlantic always feels like it should start a section, for example." -Tim [x]

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"Nothing In My Way came out of listening to a lot of the poppier end of hiphop on the radio, just kinda driving around (I was driving up and down to my parents house a lot as that was the only place I could go to play the piano) and I think particularly the groove of "Lose Yourself" by Eminem got stuck in my head. I think it's still one of the greatest pop songs of my lifetime, it's such a fantastic track. And I guess I like the idea of trying to do something similar. I guess it was never gonna sound like Eminem, but the groove of it was basically lifted from that, and the song just came from jamming around on a piano. So I guess as a result of all that, I guess it's a much funkier and kinda 'blacker' song than most Keane songs, and that was something that we really wanted to get into the record generally. We were listening to a lot of classic motown as well, much more driving rhythms and you can hear that in a lot of the songs. So I'm really proud to have a few songs that people can at least nod their heads to!

Lyrically Nothing In My Way is I guess about really being in denial - I hate it when people refuse to acknowledge their own feelings and reactions to something, because they see it as being a weakness to say that they're scared, or upset about something, or whatever. The song's actually written about some people I know who are married, and their marriage was essentially just bringing a lot of misery to both of them, but for some reason they just refused to acknowledge it. I hate the idea of people being so much in denial that they're prepared to almost let their lives fall apart rather than acknowledge what's going on." - Tim - Podcast 1 (15th May 2006)

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libertayy ha dicho: Ahhh great :D I love your blog so much haha its so good to find out so much about the songs, I’m literally obsessed with Keane no joke…

We share the obsession :P I'm in love with this band 

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Where do you get all the info about the songs? :D

Hi! Different sites. Usually it comes from interviews (videos, audios and writing interviews). Sometimes info comes from the old forum where Tim wrote about a few songs. You can check it here.Also Keane website, mainly for Strangeland songs because Tim wrote about each one and occasionally they post some Q&A where some fans ask the guys about the meaning behind some songs.Usually I post the source.

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This is an alternative remix of the early Keane song Rubbernecking was done when Tim worked with Tom Walker of Universal Construtors in 2000 and agreed to allow the remix to happen. Tim said: "We were working together in London back in 2000 and he asked if he could have a go at remixing it and did a really good job I think" [x]

The song was posted at Universal constructors site. You can check out it here

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"This Is The Last Time is a weird one. I feel that it's a very well-intentioned song, and the idea behind it is good, but I don't feel like I really said what I wanted to say in a very clear way, basically. The song is about being in a very comfortable relationship where you feel a lot of affection towards someone. It's about feeling that's all great and you don't want to hurt this person, but at the same time you feel like you wanna get out there and find something that's more kinda magical, and a real passionate love; it's not just about being cosy and comfortable, it's about finding something that really sort of makes you feel alive and lights up your life every day. So it's about the dilemma of having to leave that person behind, and go off in search of something that's more kinda unknown, and just a romantic idea. But at the same time it's having to try and say that to the person you're leaving behind, and how to explain that - obviously it's a difficult thing to do. My kinda view of things isa little bit ... I tend to always be looking for the more difficult and confusing things. Whenever I start off writing a song that's kinda quite happy and positive, I always end up starting to undermine it and writing lyrics that undermine that, and by the time I've got to the end of the song it's much more full of doubt." - Tim - Strangers DVD

[About the single cover] "Firstly it's a beautiful cover in its own right, I think Alex and Jim did a fabulous job. Secondly we all think killing these beautiful beasts while lots of people eat their sandwiches and bay for blood is pretty weird. Thirdly, and most importantly, the idea of the grand, dignified beast slowly, painfully dying is a powerful metaphor for the death of a love affair. The song is quite complex because it's not just an 'I hate you' type of vibe...something pretty good is dying and you can only stand and watch." Tim [x]

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The song was originally recorded by Japanese electropop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. It can be found on their 2003 collection UC YMO: Ultimate Collection of Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Richard said about it: "It was just we needed someone who could sing in Japanese because the verses are in Japanese and the choruses are in English. So we just asked the Yellow Magic Orchestra and got a list of names from them and also from our record company in Japan after asking who would be good for this? So they sent us a list and we checked them all out on MySpace and with her we were like 'wow ok now she would be amazing.' So its just experimenting for the hell of it really because the thing is if it hadn’t worked we wouldn’t have released it and nothing would have been lost except a few hours of people’s time. So I guess we have just learned over time that you don’t have to be certain. I don’t know I think it’s taken us a while to learn that we have the freedom to experiment and not even on a grand scale like we used to do it but on smaller scale. But now we have this huge platform that we can just take advantage of." [x]

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"This is a pretty simple pop song, but it took me years to finish it. My recollection is that I started it in about 2005. The theme is similar to Silenced By The Night, and it's very uplifting and optimistic. I love the line "sometimes our fingers graze the sky but we can't hold on". The theme of chasing a dream through life, trying to navigate the strange land your dreams lead you into, is the underlying theme of the record, and I think that line sums it up pretty nicely." - Tim [x]

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"As you get older you realise that things just get more complicated and it's just never a simple 'everything's delightful' - I mean I find that I feel very happy with that side of my life, but at the same time there always bad things and always difficult things, and I'll always like taking those and expanding on them and thinking where they might go and using those as ideas for writing. I don't know if that just means I'm a 'glass half empty' person or whatever, but in a way those are the most interesting things to write about - it's not particularly interesting to write a song about how 'everything's really lovely'. I think people are just very interesting, and those sorts of funny things that people say and do, and you don't really know if they're good or bad, but they're just weird. The way people behave to each other is so strange. We Might As Well Be Strangers is definitely one of my favourites songs I've written because it's so ... unbelievably depressing. I feel that it builds up and it just sort of explodes, it's like it smoulders along for a while and then there's a big cry of frustration, and then it just hangs its head, and then goes back to the 'for all I know of you now' bit. It's a very sad song." - Tim - Strangers DVD

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This was one of the first songs that the band recorded at Teldex Studios, a massive former ballroom in Berlin. The German city had previously inspired Keane when they'd toured there and has produced such landmark albums as Bowie's Low and U2's Achtung Baby. Tim told About.com how recording in Berlin helped develop the mood of Perfect Symmetry: "We recorded a lot of the record there, and that's a city that's been knocked down and divided up as much as any city on earth in the last 100-odd years, but it's constantly rebuilding itself and healing, and it's a very modern, forward-looking city, and it really embraces people and is a very creative city. It's a city that's full of hope and a sense of healing and looking forward. I think that's something we really absorbed in the spirit of making this record." - Tim 

"The Lovers Are Losing was a very, very important song for us in making the record – it was written in Berlin and so it, it kind of, I suppose was one of the peaks of creativity in Berlin, and it was, you know, shows the way that city inspired us when making the record. You often hear this very simple, boiled down version of what people are, divided into lovers and haters. You hear that in songs from everyone from Michael Jackson to Kanye West and I like the idea of being honest with ourselves, at this moment in time the lovers are definitely in real trouble. And I hope the song serves as a rallying call to all of us who aren't warmongers and all have a romantic dream of what we could be as a human race." - Tim - Perfect symmetry DVD

"I still believe in the romanticized goals of the '60s - peace and love. We now need those ideals more than ever." - Tim - The Daily Mail October 17, 2008

About the end part of the song Tim answered: "That was me saying to Tom, “We should get some Under Pressure-style finger-clicks on here”. Jake (who engineered the album) chopped it up and slowed it down, so it just says “Get some Under Pressure style” in a weird voice." [x]

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"It's a reaction to a certain singer who seemed to make it his mission to slag us off at every point, but really didn't seem to be being true to himself, or to have understood what we are. We don't want to get into some tabloid slanging match, but we just felt like he was acting a part, and really pretending to be someone he is not. We really feel that you don't have to be all glitzy and tabloid to make good music, and that there's a bond between musicians and artists that should be held up - why not talk about a band you love or a song that inspired you?" - Richard - ilikemusic.com

"Well another theme that runs through the record is the idea of a surreal and sinister kinda fairytale world gone wrong. And that runs through A Bad Dream, Crystal Ball, Broken Toy and the whole thing of The Iron Sea definitely has a slightly macabre unreal feel to it, and I think The Frog Prince is the most literal expression of that. Again, a bit like Leaving So Soon?, it was written on behalf of all three of us. It was inspired by a conversation that Tom and I were having in a slightly drunken state in a hotel in Toronto, and we were talking about someone in another band who we felt was a really talented songwriter and really intelligent and talented person, but we felt he was busy bad-mouthing us and every other band that was around it seemed. It was very frustrating to see him go from a cool great songwriter in a small indie band, to suddenly becoming this person who's playing the part of the arrogant rock star. And I guess we in some stupid way felt that was some sort of betrayal, because you feel that you're part of a community of bands and people who started at kind of at the same time. So that song was a defence of us, and it's a plea not to betray who you actually are, in the hope of impressing other people. And I guess it's using the idea of this sinister fairytale as a way of manifesting the weird world of the media and so on, and if you wander into it thinking you can say whatever you want then people encourage you to play a part. But they'll just as soon stab you in the back, as give you a big hug and tell you how wonderful you are. It's very dangerous game to play, and it ends up with you ceasing to be who you really are. And we've always, rather naively, tried to get by on being completely who we are, and being completely honest about who we are and being completely honest about who we are - and a lot of people really respect that, but on the other hand it leaves you exposed, you don't have a shield up of any sort; so that's what the song is about." - Tim - Podcast 6 (19th June 2006)

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Unreleased song, first leaked on a Compact Disc from the James Sanger sessions. Keane did not want this to be released, but it eventually became well known by fanbase.

"It’s a song about a soldier being afraid and wondering why he’s off fighting some pointless war far from his home. I suppose the lyrics are very tongue-in-cheek, which makes them open to misinterpretation. It was one of the first songs I wrote and it’s a subject I still return to a lot, for example in A Bad Dream. I think we may even release it very soon!" - Tim [x]

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"Towards the end of 2009 I started to feel that I really wasn't writing enough songs. The touring for Perfect Symmetry made it hard to find time to write, and between trying to finish Night Train and write a few songs for Mt Desolation I realised that I wasn't making any progress on the new Keane album. I had read an interview with the band Doves where they mentioned a book called The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook, which basically suggests sitting down at an appointed time with some friends and trying to write 20 songs (each) in 12 hours. So Jesse and I tried this a few times over the next couple of years - I wrote about 70 songs that way and a lot of the songs for Strangeland came out of that process. Silenced By The Night was one of them. I had been watching Peter Bogdanovich's fantastically inspiring documentary about Tom Petty, and I was interested in the way he often uses the same chord sequence over and over again, changing the melody over the top to make different sections (U2 do this a lot too!). Anyway, when you're doing this intensive writing thing you have to grab at inspirations quickly so I thought I would try the repeating chord thing, and that became the hypnotic piano riff in Silenced By The Night. I think the pace of it instinctively made it feel like a 'driving' song, and I've always loved driving at night, so the verse lyrics came from that. I couldn't find a phrase for the chorus and was running out of time, so I looked over the back of the piano and say a copy of Patrick Humphries' biography of Nick Drake. I remembered a passage in it about how when people get very depressed things can seem utterly hopeless in the middle of the night, but then when the morning comes life seems a little more manageable again. So the idea of trying to make it through the night to the dawn became the chorus of the song." - Tim [x]

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"A Bad Dream is the most emotional song on the record. It was based on a poem by W.B.Yeats, called "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death", and I think it also came from visiting lots of battlefields and graveyards and so in France, which sounds very morbid, but that's the kind of thing I like to do on holiday! I've just always been really affected by... I guess still being a relatively young man, I still have a lot of empathy of people of my age and even younger, who are going off to war; and I guess the idea of going off to war has been in the air for the last couple of years, with Afghanistan and Iraq particular. Those seem like very distant things, but I think in Europe in particular the Second World War is still something that still looms quite largely in a lot of people's minds, and it certainly should do. I'd also been reading a book called "The New Confessions" by William Boyd, in where the protagonist of the book goes up in a hot air balloon to film the front line, and he gets shot down and captured. It just made me think a lot of people when they go off as young men, and when they come back - even if it's a couple of years later it's like they've become old, and all the things they left behind have changed. And it's something that you can never ever go back to being young again. And I guess it's just a very sad song.

We wanted to get a balance between a kinda dream sequence - it starts very quietly, and I love the idea of being in a plane, like a Spitfire or something, being so high up in the sky that you can't hear the guns below you and so on. And it's almost got a serene silence which is what this Yeats poem seemed to really express. The song starts very quietly, but it gets huge and angry as it goes on - the big distorted washy piano sound in the middle is a pretty vast sound and it's I guess an attempt to express all that anger bursting out." - Tim - Podcast 3 (30th May 2006)

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Tom said on PerfectSymmetry's bonus DVD that Tim wrote this song, along with several others during the winter of 2007-08. Tom added that the song grabbed him as "there is all this distress and pain is going on in the world and yet we have the luxury of burying our heads. As the song says: turn up the song on the jukebox or whatever it is and that ability to distract ourselves and drown things out from our minds and so for me it felt like an incredibly pertinent song, a young westerner. And I love it sonically as well. Its just got a lovely, dreamy atmosphere and that was the key when it came to recording this dreaminess into it. And then a great, huge rock out section and we're really looking forward to playing that one live as well."