Shiny Toy Guns – Ghost Town (Season of Poison, 2008)

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things start off weird, with some almost wild-west theatrical vocals, which quickly transition into something that reminds me more of The Offpsring. Then, at :29, we get the female vocals:

everyone livin in ghost town
everyone buried in wasteland

we don’t want to we don’t have to
be like that livin in ghost town

all the boys shout it out loud now
all the girls scream it out loud uh,

we don’ t want to
we don’t have to
live like that.

pull me back you know
we’re never gonna back down

Like ‘When Did This Storm Begin’, once the female singer starts belting out those lyrics, time flies by – the backing instrumentation keeps things solid in the background, but it’s really all about the sound of her voice. The male singer jumps in to help out with the chorus: “we’re dead in this ghost town, you’re better than ghost oh, let go let go.”

A break at 2:32 returns to the brief intro, then moves into the bridge, with new lyrical melodies and additional accompaniment, and then a nice big break at 3:02, ending at 3:12 and jumping right back into the chorus. The synths bend around, the guitar jams, and everything stops suddenly as the track ends, leaving the two vocalists hanging in midair.

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