Come Back Around

"Come Back Around" was the first single released from British rock band Feeder's 2002 album Comfort in Sound. It was their first release after drummer Jon Lee's death earlier in the year. The promo video featured 4 female drummers as a tribute to Jon Lee.

It reached #14 in the UK charts, and became their 10th top 40 hit in the process.

Feeder also has a B-Side with the same name which has recently been released on their B-Sides album "Picture Of Perfect Youth".

1 Style
2 Music video
3 Reception
4 In popular culture
5 Track listing
- 5.1 CD1
- 5.2 CD2
- 5.3 DVD

[edit] Style

While being lyrically dark, the music itself is very power-pop guitar based. Like their previous hit "Just a Day", the lyrics have a different mood to the music, so different sides of emotion can be explored by the listener. The lyrics focus on the bands emotions of their loss of drummer Jon Lee, who committed suicide earlier on the year.

[edit] Music video

With "Come Back Around" being Feeder's first single after Jon's death, the band wanted to make it a tribute to him. Frontman Grant Nicholas knew that Jon would like the idea of a series of women playing drums together, and so a group of female drummers appeared in the video, all playing at the same time with Grant Nicholas and Taka Hirose both in their usual band roles, while facing towards the drummers. To keep the video low-key, it was also filmed in black and white.

Effects in the video include Grant playing his guitar in a windmill motion for a few seconds, and Taka jumping off an equipment box with the landing done in slow motion.

[edit] Reception

"Come Back Around" charted in the UK at #14, which was seen by a few people as a disappointment, as it was a single release before the album was due, but was seen by the majority as a sucsess as many albums go top 10 following a top 15 single.

The track appeared at #103 on XFM's all-time list "The X-List" in 2003, and alongside its video was #35 on MTV Two's top 100 videos of 2002. The track gained a lot of critical success upon release, with Kerrang! naming it their "Single Of The Week". It is played very regularly at Feeder concerts and festival appearances.

[edit] In popular culture

Come Back Around featured on the soundtrack to the gross-out comedy American Wedding. It plays very quietly on the radio during the sports shop scene.