Nerina Pallot - Everybody's Gone To War

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I saw the video for this a few weeks back and loved it, but never caught her name. I saw it again this morning and I've had the song in my head all day. It's so catchy. Currently #55 on the iTunes UK store.

I assumed she was American but she's English

The video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F3JH-e2zs4

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I LOVE this!

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I'm downloading the album now.


# 1. Everybody's Gone To War
# 2. Halfway Home
# 3. Damascus
# 4. Idaho
# 5. All Good People
# 6. Mr King
# 7. Geek Love
# 8. Sophia
# 9. Learning To Breathe
# 10. Heart Attack
# 11. Nickindia

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I can't lsiten/watch now because I'm at work.... but I just checked out the lyrics. They are awesome.

I've got a friend, he's a pure-bred killing machine,
He says he's waited his whole damm life for this,
I knew him well when he was seventeen,
Now he's a man; he'll be dead by Christmas.

And so...
Everybody's going to war,
But we don't know what we're fighting for,
Don't tell me it's a worthy cause,
No cause could be so worthy.

If love is a drug, then I guess we're all sober,
If love is a song then I guess it's all over,
How to have faith, when faith is a crime?
I don't want to die...
If God's on our side, then God is a joker,
Asleep on the job, his children fall over,
Running out through the door and straight to the sky,
I don't want to die...

For every man who wants to rule the world,
There'll be a man who just wants to be free,
What do we learn but what should not be learnt?
Too late to find a cure for this disease.

And so...
Everybody's going to war,
But we don't know what we're fighting for,
Don't tell me it's a worthy cause,
No cause could be so worthy.

If love is a drug, I guess we're all sober,
If hope is a song, I guess it's all over,
How to have faith, when faith is a crime?
I don't want to die...
If God's on our side, then God is a joker,
Asleep on the job, his children fall over,
Running out through the door, and straight to the sky,
I don't want to die...
I-I-I-I don't want to die,
I-I don't want to die...

I've got a friend, he's a pure-bred killing machine,
I think he might be dead by Christmas...

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haveyoueverbeenlow said:

I'm downloading the album now.

Haha me too!

[francky]

I didn't know her! Her song is really great, i love it!

[feverabove]

I'm really liking the album. I'm going to have to buy it. It's not as poppy as I thought it would be based on this song though.

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This album is taking FOREVER to download for me.

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lmao @ her 'blog':

When the nice people from Slashmusic asked me to provide a weekly blog for the site, my 'people' were anxious that I wouldn't bite off more than I can chew during what is supposedly an incredibly busy time for me, darling. Truth is, I am very bloody lazy, and suffer from such a serious form of internet addiction, that I can actually write this blog while waiting for the new Will Young video to download, with my mate babbling away on the phone to me about how she has just given away my ticket for the Kaiser Chiefs this weekend to her new bloke because I should be able to get on the guest list now (no, actually dear, I'm still a social pariah and proud of it), and while I paint my toenails with the other hand.

My life is so glamorous that this morning I was woken up by Ne-Yo. In my bedroom. He was singing to me. It was really f**king horrible, and so I went and shouted at my neighbours at 7am and told them that very soon I will be saying "Do you know who I am?!" To which they replied, "Yeah love, we already know who you are. We see you on The Box all the time at that moment, and the very second you come on, we change the channel so we can watch Mariah Carey instead. Then we remind ourselves to wake you up with her tomorrow morning at high volume. And when our Rottweiler, Prince Naseem, shat on the kitchen floor, we used the page from the Sun with your face on to clear it up."

The nice people at Slashmusic also suggested I might compare my current experience of promoting a new album with the album I released a few years ago. It's quite simple really. Five years ago I didn't have a broadband internet connection or a big limit on my credit card. Now I have both, I don't need a hit record to feed my ego and my shoe fetish. I just read all my MySpace messages where people tell me how wonderful I am, and keep hitting the refresh button. When it dawns on me that this is in fact the behaviour of a very, very sad person, only buying yet more useless crap online can numb the pain.

On those rare occasions when I do actually leave the house, there has to be some kind of retail incentive or I really can't see the point. To this end, as well as appearing in slightly more salubrious establishments than I have previously been seen in, I shall be spending the latter half of May frequenting as many branches of H&M as my touring schedule permits. Note to my people: Why must the gigs be in music venues? Can't I do the first ever tour of Top Shops of this nation? You know it makes sense...

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"Idaho" and "Damascus" are AMAZING!

[feverabove]

"Idaho" is my fave. The only one I don't like is "All Good People", it's so corny.

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Debuts at #32 on the Download Chart.

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I noticed on the UK iTunes store that she's in the Top 20, but it's the old version. I downloaded the old version and it's so boring compared to the remastered one

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Album debuts at #27, single debuts at #37.

[feverabove]

Awesome! The album was #44 last week so that's quite a jump. I keep seeing commercials ALL the time for it, during Big Brother shows. And hopefully the release of the CD single will push the single into the top 20.

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Single up 23 places to #14.

Album up by 1 place to #26.

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Hot MC reference!