- Rush Hour Soul (song)
Infobox Single
Name = Rush Hour Soul
Border = yes
Artist =Supergrass
Album =Life on Other Planets
B-side = "Everytime"
Released = 4 August,2003 (UK)
Format = CD, 7"
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 02:55
Label =Parlophone
Writer = Supergrass
Producer =Tony Hoffer
Last single = "Seen the Light "
(2003)
This single = "Rush Hour Soul"
(2003)
Next single = "Kiss of Life"
(2004)"Rush Hour Soul" is a song by the
Britpop bandSupergrass . It was the fourth and final single from their fourth album "Life On Other Planets ". The single failed to chart in theUS , and was outside the Top 75 in theUK upon its release in August2003 [ [http://www.strangeones.co.uk/music/45_15.htm The Strange Ones Supergrass Site ] ] , but this was probably because it was released around ten months after "Life On Other Planets"."It's about losing reality and just being really off your head," said
Danny Goffey . "You could be really drugged up or stricken by madness, and then it's about just needing an escape to get out of that. That's why the verses are quite intense and the chorus is more reflective about the place you'd rather be in [ [http://www.strangeones.co.uk/press/articles/mm030130.htm The Strange Ones Supergrass Site ] ] ."Supergrass themselves are quite fond of the song, and describe it as "rapidly becoming a live monster". [http://www.childrenofthemonkeybasket.com/discography/discomain.htm - Navigate to "Rush Hour Soul"]
Track listing
CD CDR6612
#"Rush Hour Soul" (2:55)
#"Everytime" (3:16)
#"Rush Hour Soul (video)"LTD. ED. Green 7" (with free sticker) R6612
#"Rush Hour Soul" (2:55)
#"Everytime" (3:16)Music Video
*Director:
Dom and Nic The video takes place at night and is filmed in
London , nearPiccadilly Circus . It consists mainly ofGaz Coombes dressed as ahobo , singing "Rush Hour Soul" angrily at pedestrians in the street, with the aide of a portablemicrophone and speaker, and running around theLondon underground and dark streets and alleyways. During the choruses (and occasionally through the verses), the film reverts to the band (dressed normally) playing the song with rather stern expressions, in a room dimly lit with either coloured or white lights. In this room there are also scenes of the band just about to hit one another with their instruments before the film cuts out, and later on, 'clones' ofMick Quinn as he sings part of the song.Just before the middle eight, the
tramp (AKA Gaz) is beaten up in an alleyway by two men for almost walking into their car, and refusing to move out of the way. As the middle eight does begin, he looks to the night sky from where he is lying on the floor and sees a huge, slowly rotatingcomet , orasteroid , among the stars. The camera focuses on the comet and then zooms out once more to reveal that it is in fact "a comet drifting to the sun" as the song lyrics entail.The video finishes with
Supergrass playing "Rush Hour Soul" in the dimly lit room once more, then finally goes back to Gaz as thehomeless person lying on the floor. One of the men from the car is about to launch a kick at him, but the film cuts off before he actually achieves physical contact.References
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