Indie Rock Songs

With the release of their sophomore CD An End Has A Start this summer, containing popular songs like "Smoking Outside the Hospital Doors", band members of Editors having been touring relentlessly as their popularity grows with the release of each new single.

The latest release from the band that is getting good play on the web is the music video to the title track of An End Has A Start.

Here's the band's most recent music video release, "Racing With Rats" - direct from the band's own YouTube page:



During the summer the music video to "Smoking Outside the Hospital Doors" has been viewed nearly a half million times just on the band's YouTube page itself.


As sadly ironic as the title is, the song has an element of longing to it, not what you'd expect from a song with the precursor "the saddest thing I've ever seen." No disrespect Tom. It's a great song, but the lyrics are a bit lame. I can show you some things that are far, far sadder. But I get the irony, man.

Still, let's face it, Editors have a great, signature sound, but the lyrics lack the maturity and craftsmanship of many other, lesser known indie song writers. However, it is only fair to say that the lads are fairly new to the scene (circa 2004) and not known for their lyrics as much as they are for their captivating sound.

Nevertheless, the music video for "Smoking Outside the Hospital Doors" is nothing special, but worth a watch for fans. Personally, I like the band's earlier videos, especially for "Munich" and "Bullets", two of the songs that really shot the band onto the more mainstream, if you will, indie rock scene.

Lyrics to Editors' "Smoking Outside the Hospital Doors":

So your eyes can't see
Now run as fast as you can
Through this field of trees

Say goodbye to everyone
You have ever known
You are not gonna see them ever again

I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?

How can we wear our smiles
With our mouths wide shut
Cause you stopped us from singing

I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
Now someone turn us around
Can we start this again?

We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Left smashed on the floor

I can't believe you
If I can't hear you
I can't believe you
If I can't hear you

We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed on the floor

We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed on the floor

Someone turn me around
(We've all been changed from what we were)
Can I start this again?
(Our broken parts smashed on the floor)
Now someone turn us around
(We've all been changed from what we were)
Can we start this again?
(Our broken parts smashed on the floor)

Check out these other great links for the Editors:

- Editors' Second Album An End Has a Start Released
- Editors Launch European Tour after Wrapping up U.S. Tour
- Editors' official MySpace videos page
- Listen to, and download, Editors' MP3s from An End Has A Start

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For fans who are unaware of the band - and those of who you just can't get enough - you can listen and download songs from the album on Editors' official website and on the band's MySpace page.

There is also a free MP3 download of the album available in the links section of this website.


Music critics and fans are giving the new LP a thumbs up, although not as enthusiastically as the group's highly acclaimed 2005 debut album The Back Room.

Check out Editors' newest official music videos, including An End Has A Start.

Here's what singer and songwriter Tom Smith told AOL Sessions about the new album after a recording this summer: "There is a lot of death on the record, that sounds pretty morbid but it's the truth. Death has touched me and my friends in the last year in several ways. Realizing everything comes to an end is important and I think we've done our best to make it something glorious and uplifting as well as scary."

Editors have been on a roll since the 2005 release of their first single "Bullets" was followed up by their break-through single "Munich" that "made them darlings of the U.K. music press," according to AllMusic.

The four lads caught the attention of just about everyone that year, but it was the band's performance at the 2005 annual Glastonbury Music Festival that rocketed the band to fame in the U.K. and Europe. Shortly after the festival, and in a whirl of rock media frenzy, the band released it's third single "Blood".

Without much delay, Editors were back in the Kitchenware Records studios working on their much anticipated debut CD The Back Room, which was subsequently released in the summer of 2005.

As is the case with many artists that become popular relatively fast, pressure mounted on the band and the record label to pump out more music. Thankfully, pure demand economics, and some smart decision-making on the part of Kitchenware, the single "Munich" was reissued in January 2006.

Soon after, The Back Room made it into the Top Five on the U.K. charts, followed by a gold record and a number of music awards.

The Editors are in the midst of an extensive U.S. tour next month with openers Stellastarr, and later on with Ra Ra Riot, a band "to watch" out of Syracuse, New York.

With their catchy, somewhat frantic musical flair that the six or so members deliver with seemingly boundless energy and near chaotic stage antics - thus, the name - Ra Ra Riot may be one homegrown answer to Canada's wildly popular, sweepingly energizing band Arcade Fire, who even made it on the cover Time magazine.

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