Call Me What You Like

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"Call Me What You Like"
"Call Me What You Like" cover
Single by Keane
Released February 2000
Format CD Single
Recorded Home recording
Sync City
Genre Alternative
Length 5:21 (approx.)
Label Zoomorphic
Writer(s) Tom Chaplin
Dominic Scott
Tim Rice-Oxley
Richard Hughes
Producer(s) Keane
Adam Tudhope
Chart positions

Didn't chart
Keane singles chronology
"Call Me What You Like"
(2000)		 "Wolf at the Door"
(2001)

"Call Me What You Like" was the first single and the first release ever by English alternative and piano rock band Keane. Limited to 500 copies, the single was released through Zoomorphic, the band's own label set up to release their music when a record deal was not forthcoming. It was primarily sold in pub venues during early Keane gigs. A re-recording of the song was included as a b-side on their follow-up single, "Wolf at the Door".

Contents

[edit] Track listing

CD

  1. "Call Me What You Like"
  2. "Rubbernecking"
  3. "Closer Now"

[edit] Information about song

"Call Me What You Like" was the only song composed by Tom Chaplin (along with "Closer Now") until "Maybe I Can Change" in 2006, fact known because of the credits appearing on Strangers.

[edit] Musical strcuture

"Call Me What You Like" technical characteristics
Length Tempo (bpm) Key Time signature Instrumentation Genre Other appereances
5:21 76 Cm (major) 4/4, 8b acoustic guitar, backing vocals, bass, drums, electric guitar, synthesizer, voice Alternative "Wolf at the Door" (version 2), Strangers

[edit] B-sides

Audio samples:

[edit] Rubbernecking

Remixed in 2001 by Tim Rice-Oxley and Tom Walker from the Universal Constructors, is considered as one of Keane's oddest songs. Also, the title has no apparent relation with the lyrics of the song.

"Rubbernecking" technical characteristics
Length Tempo (bpm) Key Time signature Instrumentation Genre Other appereances
5:57/4:43 (remix) 65 Bb (B flat major) 4/4, 8b bass, bells, drums, electric piano, electric guitar, synthesizer, tambourine, voice New age electronica None

[edit] Closer Now

This song has attained cult status amongst fans, and of Keane's early songs, is considered to be the closest in style to the songs released during the Hopes and Fears era. The song is also notable because it is a rare example of a Keane song written and composed by Chaplin, according to a comment Hughes is believed to have made to a fan after a gig.[1] This is in contrast to virtually every other Keane song, for which the primary composer and songwriter is Rice-Oxley.

"Closer Now" technical characteristics
Length Tempo Key Time signature Instrumentation Genre Other appereances
4:57 92 E (major) 4/4, 8b acoustic guitar, backing vocals, bass, drums, electric guitar, voice Alternative rock None

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Comment on "Closer Now" composer. Retrieved on September 10, 2006.

[edit] External links

Keane
Tim Rice-Oxley | Tom Chaplin | Richard Hughes
Adam Tudhope | Dominic Scott
Discography
Studio albums: Hopes and Fears | Under the Iron Sea
Lives and EPs: Live Recordings 2004 | Keane Live 06
Singles: "Call Me What You Like" | "Wolf at the Door" | "Everybody's Changing (Part 1)" | "This Is The Last Time (Part 1)" | "Somewhere Only We Know" | "Everybody's Changing (Part 2)" | "Bedshaped" | "This Is The Last Time (Part 2)"| "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" | "Bend and Break" | "Atlantic" | "Is It Any Wonder?" | "Crystal Ball" | "Nothing in My Way" | "A Bad Dream" | "Try Again"
DVDs: Hopes and Fears DVD | Strangers | Under the Iron Sea DVD
Tours: Hopes and Fears Tour | Under the Iron Sea Tour
Other: List of songs by Keane
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