Hospital - Nothing Rhymes With Orange Single Review
Nothing Rhymes With Orange
Single Review
I was first drawn to this promo by the band's name - Nothing Rhymes With Orange. It is with some regret that I can announce that this is the most interesting thing about the promo that eventually arrived bearing that moniker.
The riff sounds very familiar to that of Coldplay's Yellow and exactly bloody identical to Ash's Sometimes. Not bad to be influenced by such chart topping acts, obviously, but it feels like wholesale theft. Fortunately, they've recovered some originality by writing their own lyrics, but in truth they'd have been better off nicking these as well. It's like they'd decided they wanted to write a song about a hospital and then spent 3 days watching ER religiously and brainstorming medical terms to put in nauseatingly weak lyrics like
In the hospital there were no fatal injections to end our lives.
Abandoned hospital there were no disastrous celebrated nosedives.
"Disasterous celebrated nosedives?" What!? It's like they were tapping out lyrics in Microsoft Word, only for the paperclip to appear and say "It looks like you're writing some soulful emo toss, but you're 3 syllables short - how about including the word 'celebrated?'" Who cares if it makes sense as long as it scans - if not well, at least passably.
All in all, this hugely derivative forgettable hotchpotch of a single leaves a very slight sense of morbid curiosity of the rest of the album's content. And really a single should sell a band rather than their influences. I think I'll listen to some Ash later...