and i always feel like I’m listening to it for the first time. i love this song!

One of the first riffs I started to learn from 911tabs back in the day!

The line "hunting for witches" has been going through my head from time to time since it was released.

Yeah it’s unreal 👌🔥

yeeaaaah booiiiii

Yeeeeea

Oh Yes Indeed! 👍

Im still hunting witches!

Yassssss💖👍

AWITC and SA were legendary indie rock albums no doubt

Greatest drummer ever. Always will be. Matt Tong you will be missed in bloc party, your chemistry with the other members was brilliant

@@no-tn3ym i thought he was drug addict and they kicked him out

​@@Duvli the only thing I've read was that there was "an incident" where "someone was doing coke and someone else didn't like it." I don't think anyone was an addict. If anything, I bet Matt was the one who was upset about the drugs.

@@Duvli ​Copying and pasting what a user summarized on r/blocparty from Matt’s interview on The Noughties Podcast: “He said he found it extremely difficult to drum the way he did. When they took a break in 2009-2012, he tried to play some of Silent Alarm on drums and really struggled. He said when they met up in 2010 at Russell's house, he was already planning on telling them that he was quitting, but didn't want to make a scene and the conversation led to them discussing how well Foals were doing (random) and they sounded similar to them. They discussed Matt just recording the album and figuring out a replacement when touring came, but by that point he decided he might as well tour it. Eventually it really weighed down on his mental health and there was a lot of psychological baggage that made it difficult for them to focus on a task collectively, which lead him to quit when he did. He says they didn't openly discuss how they were coping with the band in terms of mental health, and he reflects that he doesn't know if discussing it would have led to a different outcome of that iteration of the band. He also mentioned he's so grateful for his time in the band and that he is able to pretty much live off the royalties of his contributions to the band. He still talks to Gordon fairly regularly and is close friends. He met up with Russell a few years ago in New York and they occasionally talk, but there is sometimes a bit of awkwardness with the fact that he is still in BP. He hasn't spoken to Kele since he quit, but any bad blood that existed around the time of quitting has since evaporated, and if they bumped into each other in the street he would have a pint with him and hope he feels the same way.”

I believe that is just hte style of the band in general is to have all instruments be very present in each song. Listening to their music now older I realize just how revolutionary they were.

+Sean “SmokeyJoe” Pears Silent Alarm will give you plenty to start with...then,.....the rest of it. :) Bloc party has an amazing discography. Enjoy your musical adventure.

+David V ha lmao

This song, "Take me out" by Franz Ferdinand, "Fell in love with a girl" by the White Stripes and "Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse are *definitely* my favorite (semi-) Indie Rocks songs of the 2000s. All of them have incredible craftsmanship.

same with Zappa, can't believe I hyped myself to go so far just to find out it's all hype anyway lol

Mine was digsys diner, from cigarettes and alcohol. Never got into audio engineering, but got very close to it at leeds college. Sadly a youth spent on heroin kinda throws a spanner in the works, y'know? 😂 Ahh well, experiences trump achievements... (At least that's how I console my wasted genius.)

He is no longer in the band gg

He was too damn good for the band

No, he just need more time to work on Death Stranding.

I hope he got better

Feed the man his MEDICINE!

was

Yes, was. The new album sucks.

They must have been the first "indie" band I started listening to. But they've gone downhill since :(

YarezX yep

fame is a sour bitch

juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup

Same

Ikr

Hello from Querétaro

yes

The song is about the london train bombings so not really, its just that times havent changed.

Brutus Bongo they also mention 911. It's about being manipulated into hunting for witches so to speak. How we all have been painted a portrait of a certain enemy among us. There's more to the song than just that incident

Where Is Home? I find to be ahead of the time.

cant be ahead of the times when the times never changed. the lyrics couldve been relevant anytime it was made

Who's listening in the riots?

Agree

I just learned it. Its a top shelf riff - get your pinky ready

I started playing around the time of Silent Alarm, a year after it came out. He was my first inspiration as a drummer, my drum hero I suppose.

This Lyrics work on both sides of politics. Liberals who get brainwashed into thinking there's a miltia of white supremacists or the naive conservative who thinks he's getting replaced by immigrants lol.

@@eldirtyfaygo5395 There literally is a militia of white supremacists. They are called Trump supporters.

@@eldirtyfaygo5395 this is not aging well

It always did.

@@zynel413 Especially since the song was specifically written about post-9/11 paranoia.

I'm almost 50 years old. Sadly, this song has accurately described the times for as long as I can remember.

Yeah how the dems constantly hunt for witches against republicans. “Russian collusion”

The dudes a fan of the band fun fact

it's funny,the world gets worse with like everyday. this song is just getting more relevant.

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it's a crystal castles song

@@davidejuniordepaulascussel862 xDDDDDDDDD

I feel sorry for you, i have had this masterpiece on blast for over 10 years.

It’s refreshing to see that someone understands the lyrics. Some are referring to themselves as fools without even knowing, which I suppose should be expected from fools 😅

Slightly sus ngl

Sus

+Salamander Man build a wall

+rocky skate Because of all the recent terrorist acts that have been going on.

Possibly more so right now.

Yeah totally agree ... was zoned out listening and the words seemed relevant; checked the lyrics and was like dude were they time travelling?

Same. Never fully looked up the lyrics til now....wow.

Absolutely

the paranoia is real and our countries have been sold out by our politicians.

Onichan?

***** It's spelled "hommus"

+007Fusiion ya dude the closest thing to some thing like this or like silent alarm (bc weekend in the city didnt have anymore songs like this on it), was four and that came out 4 years ago

@@doomsdaydanceparty7646 wait, so the album Four came out four years ago at your time, and now this comment is four years old, so that means that Four is eight years old, which is the double of four. Bro.

strider4176 why? What's the big deal?

strider4176 It's 2025 and I'm listening to this song.

strider4176 Never stopped

this song isn't even that old like wut

+strider4176 2016 and will still listen to this song. Good music transcends time.

+Hunter Thomas get a real guitar....

What a coincidence! I recently randomly picked Holy Fire and Silent Alarms from a shop couple of months back. Would definitely go great together!

That would be amazing

get a grip ya fanny

Isabella Valdez literally same

Russell

Yeah everyone forgets about Gordon (Bassist, backing vocals, keyboards) and Russell (lead guitarist) and always focus on Kele and Matt.

2020

Right I thought the same thing !

Kuala Lumpur?

10

13

ErMahGawd ItsDaLawdOBacon listen to the crystal castles remix, way better if you ask me.

Eduardo Torres ok I will, thanks for telling me

ErMahGawd ItsDaLawdOBacon tell me if you liked it.

Os BRs estão em todos os cantos. Sempre tem uns com bom gosto.

@@murilo.marques euuu

Love fucking this song*

+Jayden Jackson He's like a little modern day hendrix.

+Jayden Jackson its the white man that stole the music, now a brothers taking it back

Not even close this is like political electro punk Hendrix is phycidelic hard rock I think you're just saying that because of his race.

Akihito Da Grandaddy of Japan You can't steal the idea of music. Jayden Jackson And no shit it's because of his race, he doesn't have to be a fucking clone of him to be LIKE him.

+colcol599 all i was saying was they sound and look very different