Kaiser Chiefs - Everything Is Average Nowadays

Yours Truly, Angry Mob

Regular edition cover (CD and LP)
Studio album by Kaiser Chiefs
Released 26 February 2007
Recorded Hook End Studio, Berkshire: September - October, 2006
Genre Indie Rock
Length 44:19
Label B-Unique
Producer Stephen Street

Yours Truly, Angry Mob is the second album by English rock band Kaiser Chiefs. It was released on 23 February 2007 in Belgium and the Netherlands, on 26 February 2007 in the rest of the world and in late March in North America. The album was preceded by the release of lead single "Ruby" on 19 February (see 2007 in British music).[1][2][3] It became the band's first (and to date, only) number one album in the British album charts.

Once again produced by Stephen Street, producer of the band's debut album Employment, Yours Truly, Angry Mob is lyrically darker and more socially aware than its predecessor, with tracks dealing with street crime, violence, fame, and the inaccuracy of tabloid articles.

The band had earlier revealed to NME in October 2006 that they had recorded 22 songs and hoped to whittle that number down to 13 or 14 for the final album.[4] Additionally, in July 2006 the band revealed to Gigwise that they'd hoped to have the album released by Valentine's Day 2007.[5] The album was leaked in its entirety on February 21, 2007. The album was criticised by Blur frontman Damon Albarn, who likened it to his own record The Great Escape.

Track History:
"Everything Is Average Nowadays" is a song by English rock band Kaiser Chiefs and is the ninth track on their second album, Yours Truly, Angry Mob. The song was released as the second single from that album in the United Kingdom on 21 May 2007 (see 2007 in British music).[1] At the band's gig at Shepherds Bush Empire on 3 March that year, singer Ricky Wilson had introduced the song as "the second single from the album", leading to the initial speculation. The single was confirmed on March 25 on the band's website.

The title of the song is often seen as an allusion to the Buzzcocks song "Everybody's Happy Nowadays". It also seems to be heavily influenced by Blur to whom the band is often unfavourably compared. Cult Wirral band Half Man Half Biscuit covered much of the same lyrical ground some 15 years previously with "Everything's AOR".

A live version of the song recorded in Berlin during the band's tour there in November 2006 was released in the United States on 13 March 2007 as part of a promotional disc offered at Best Buy stores.[2] It has been noted by some fans that the version included on the promo CD is actually the studio version, rather than the live version as stated on the card sleeve.[citation needed]

Both the CD and 7" formats of the single were issued at a limited run, and was deleted one week after its' release. [3]

The song has been covered by The Little Ones, which will be available on a forthcoming 7" single with the Kaiser Chiefs' "Love's Not a Competition (But I'm Winning)".

Lyrics:
Sooooooooooooooooooooooo
Everything is average nowadays
Everything is average nowadays
Everyone would do it if they can
And everything is going down the pan
And everyone is following the craze
And everything is average

Now you say it's getting better
But I don't really see the signs
Said it is too different
You thought it would be suicide

Not much to believe in
Left up on a shelf
So get your coats we're leaving
We'll just do something else

Ohhhh Everything is average nowadays
Everything is average nowadays
And everything is of no consequence
Cos everyone is sitting on the fence
And everything will always stay the same
Cos everything is average

Now you said you didn't mean it
You threw away the book of rules
You thought that we should read it
I wouldn't even know how to

Not much to believe in
Left up on the shelf
So get your coats we're leaving
We'll just do something else

All I need is a ball and a wall
Or a sledge and a hill in heavy weather
All I need is a ball and a wall
A sledge and a hill in heavy weather

Oh oh oh oh etc.

Not much to believe in
Left up on the shelf
So get your coats we're leaving
We'll just do something else

Sooooooooooooooooooooooo
Everything is average nowadays
Everything is average nowadays
Everyone would do it if they can
And everything is going down the pan
And everyone is following the craze
And everything is average nowadays

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Kaiser
• Chiefs
• Yours
• Truly
• Angry
• Mob
• 2007
• Indie
• Rock
• Leeds

[AgentHamProductions]

cool



[jmallen62691]

I think I'm getting addicted...

[LongliveRocknRollX]

Loved them from the start, love them always

[thebeginner15]

awesome song!

[Deolagrue]

and so are you.

[mmidgers]

especially the kaiser chiefs.