Album: Communion
Year: 2008
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Apparently The Soundtrack of Our Lives had originally planned to follow up 2005’s Origin, Vol 1 with, you know, Origin Vol 2.
But they decided not to do that, forever leaving Origin Vol 1 an orphan. That said, while songs earmarked for Origin Vol 2 made it on to 2006’s odd-and-sods A Present From The Past, all of the songs on Communion were written specifically for it, which is kind of amazing, given that there are 24 tracks on it. As always, the best songs on it were conglomerations of a few different things, like “Flipside,” which reminds of a lost Who song recorded around the time of Tommy but left off cos it didn’t fit the story.
And so guitarists Mattias Bärjed and Ian Person letting their acoustics dominate the mix — there are electric guitars there, just not up front — and drummer Fredrik Sandsten doing mostly rolls, “Flipside” has a cool rolling and tumbling sound always building up to an effortlessly catchy chorus.
I’m just doing everything I can to make you see
The flipside of it all
Cause pretty soon you’re gonna end up to be just like me
The flipside of it all
As always, there is a lot going on here: an instantly catchy melody, guitar hooks peeking out of the mix and later on backing vocalists going “ahhhhhh,” or “choo chooh,” handclaps, and even a couple of stop times so that Lundberg can intone “flipside of it all” without any interference. Adding to the fun Mattias Bärjed plays a churning acoustic guitar solo, which goes on longer than you might expect.
“Flipside” is one of those songs that seems deceptively simple, but the more you listen, the more you notice.
“Flipside” Official Video
“Flipside” live in Vienna, 2009
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