The Thrills

Certain Songs #2725: The Thrills – “Found My Rosebud”

October 30, 2023 by Jim Connelly

Album: Let’s Bottle Bohemia
Year: 2004

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Like so many other young bands, The Thrills found it more difficult on their second album, 2004’s Let’s Bottle Bohemia then they had on their 2003 debut, So Much For The City. With only a year between records, the songwriting just wasn’t there, and while they didn’t write another batch of songs about how great they imagined it was in California, not even guest shots by Peter Buck and Van Dyke Parks could make a difference.

Certain Songs #2724: The Thrills – “One Horse Town”

October 29, 2023 by Jim Connelly

Album: So Much For The City
Year: 2003

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With song titles like “Santa Cruz (You’re Not That Far),” “Big Sur” and “Don’t Steal Our Sun,” you might expect that The Thrills — how did that name go unused until the 21st century? — were a group that came from sunny California.

But that was just an aspiration: it turned out that The Thrills came from the decidedly unsunny Dublin, Ireland, and had no real experience with the subject matter — instead, lead singer Conor Deasy just basically made up what he thought might happen in these places, and those tales permeated their debut, 2003’s So Much For The City.