Playing Games
Named after a track by Seattle’s Minus The Bear Cheltenham’s The Game Needed Me don’t only wear their influences on their sleeves they include them in their name! Although if you check Tooth Diaries (see below) you’ll wonder why they didn’t call themselves The Nancy Boys such is the lead singer’s vocal likeness to Placebo’s Brian Molko. Actually scrub that The Nancy Boys is an even worse name than The Game Needed Me!
‘Tooth Diaries’ is an enigmatic dose of indie with impenetrable lyrics that are either the mark of a genius or arrant nonsense I really can’t decide. Given that I actually rather like ‘Tooth Diaries’ and the other tracks on their myspace site I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and plump for sheer genius.
The games changing and The Game Needed Me are the change agents.
Go Try
MP3 - The Game Needed Me - The Tooth Diaries
This track is linked direct from the The Game Needed Me Last.FM site and is therefore already freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.
Go Visit
The Game Needed Me - Myspace : Last.FM
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