Streetcar (song)

"Streetcar"

Single by Funeral for a Friend

from the album Hours

Recorded

30 May 2005

Genre

Post-hardcore, emo, melodic hardcore

Length

3:37

Funeral for a Friend singles chronology

"Escape Artists Never Die"
(2004)

"Streetcar"
(2005)

"Monsters"
(2005)

"Streetcar" was the first single released from Funeral for a Friend's second album Hours on 30 May 2005.^[1] It charted at number 15 in the UK, making it their highest charting single to date. It contains a heavy driving drum beat and backing riff, with melodic vocal work throughout and phone style effects, i.e. ringing phone dials in the intro and phone call voices in the interlude. It is one of Funeral For A Friend's most popular songs to date. It was featured in the soundtrack for Madden NFL 06.^[2] The song was also included as pre-installed music on the HDDs of the early Xbox 360s.

References

↑ "Funeral for a Friend - New Single 'Streetcar' on May 30". Retrieved 5 May 2010.
↑ "Madden NFL 06 Soundtrack - Music News at IGN". Music.ign.com. Retrieved 2012-08-17.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Funeral for a Friend

Gavin Burrough Kris Coombs-Roberts Matthew Davies-Kreye Richard Boucher Gareth Ellis-Davies Matthew Evans Andi Morris Johnny Phillips Kerry Roberts Darran Smith Ryan Richards Pat Lundy

Studio albums	Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation (2003) Hours (2005) Tales Don't Tell Themselves (2007) Memory and Humanity (2008) Welcome Home Armageddon (2011) Conduit (2013) Chapter and Verse (2015)

Extended plays	Between Order and Model (2002) Four Ways to Scream Your Name (2003) Seven Ways to Scream Your Name (2003) Bullet Theory/My Dying Day (2004) The Great Wide Open (2007) The Young and Defenceless (2010) See You All In Hell (2011)

Compilations	Your History Is Mine: 2002–2009 (2009)

Live albums	Spilling Blood in 8 mm (2004) Final Hours at Hammersmith (2006)

Singles	"Juneau" "She Drove Me to Daytime Television/Bullet Theory" "Escape Artists Never Die" "Streetcar" "Monsters" "History" "Roses for the Dead" "Into Oblivion (Reunion)" "Walk Away" "The Great Wide Open" "Waterfront Dance Club/Beneath the Burning Tree" "Kicking and Screaming" "Rules and Games" "Front Row Seats To The End Of The World" "Sixteen" "Broken Foundation" "High Castles" "Best Friends & Hospital Beds" "The Distance" "Nails"

Related	Discography International Tour Cardiff music scene

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