All That Shimmers in This World Is Sure to Fade Meaning Again
If yous do a search of my Twitter user name and the word "shimmer", you're going to discover at least a dozen instances of me proclaiming my beloved for a vocal that turned 20 years old today.
"Shimmer" was the tune that launched the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania stone band Fuel. You may exist more familiar with their later massive breakthrough "Hemorrhage (In My Easily)" from their sophomore full-length record Something Like Human — that song spent 12 weeks at No. i on the Billboard U.S. Mod Rock Tracks in 2000.
Simply "Shimmer" sounds more than timeless compared to everything that came after it. Lead singer Brett Scallions' syrupy vocals are introduced alongside a light guitar tune. A string arrangement accompanies him as he sings the kickoff bridge — "We're here and at present / Will we ever be over again? / Cause I have found, all that shimmers in this world is sure to fade away once again". The song then explodes with drums and guitar into the next verse similar you're diving into a pool on a hot twenty-four hours, and from the moment I heard the song I was hooked.
It has a great build, a catchy hook and melody, and the fashion Scallions sings the final chorus "It'south besides far abroad for me to agree, information technology's too far away" never fails to give me goosebumps. Revisit it below.
I spoke with the songwriter behind the tune, Fuel'due south former lead guitarist Carl Bell, revisiting the song that launched his career as a musician — a song that holds upwardly pretty damn well xx years subsequently.
"I felt good nearly it for sure when I wrote it," Bell told Pass The Aux over the phone. "I knew the chord changes were dainty. Information technology'due south got that C-chord with an open up string running through it. It was a movable position on the neck. It has this nice chimey sound to the chord changes. I remember liking that. I love that little string-line that was going to be in there."
"Brett could actually sing it, he always brought that natural compression to his voice that he sings that'southward then unique," Bell said of his former bandmate. "He and I could get in a room together and we could get these astonishing song recordings and I recall being blown abroad by some of the stuff he could practise."
I remember staying upward late to watch Fuel'south carve up VH1 Storytellers episode with Train and Bong shared with the oversupply the origin of the tune. It'due south about the first fourth dimension he ever experienced serious heartbreak, how a daughter dumped him for another guy that she ended up marrying. Years later on she called him when her relationship was having bug, and he yet felt hurt and also helpless in terms of being to aid her through what she was going through. It's also well-nigh being jaded about relationships after y'all've been burned earlier. It's the sort of thing many of us tin can relate to, and it comes through with each discussion in the vocal.
"It's but i of those things that leaves a lasting impression on y'all," Bong told me near the song's origins. "'Shimmer' came out of that experience and I think it's the kind of lasting feel most of united states of america have gone through."
"Shimmer" is also a song that I consider to be one of the best modern popular songs e'er written. Sometimes I've gotten pushback on that — Mark, Fuel doesn't write "pop songs". Well what is a popular vocal?
To me, to be a pop song, yous have to be accessible. And "Shimmer" was highly accessible. It'south the most accessible song Fuel ever wrote, and information technology'southward amazing considering some of the other songs that appeared on their debut album Sunburn. "Shimmer" was followed up past a song chosen "Jesus Or A Gun" on the anthology's tracklisting. It was as heavy rock sounding as y'all'd imagine. Just "Shimmer" prophesied the band's future crossover appeal.
I asked Carl Bell if he thought "Shimmer" could be considered a pop vocal, and it'south no surprise it was a point of contention inside the band 20 years agone.
"Twenty years ago I wouldn't take felt it was a popular song, merely looking back on it now, I encounter what you're saying," Bell said.
"It'southward funny that you say that considering there was a huge argument within the band because the record company wanted to take that and cross it over into top xl. Of form we were on culling rock charts and yous gotta recollect this is twenty years ago when everybody was then worried nigh protecting their image. Nowadays, I bet you don't even have a discussion about this. But back then you were a trivial more than precious most the fashion you lot were presented and nosotros were probably too precious about how we were presented. Nosotros didn't want to take this song to top 40. But the tape label saw information technology the fashion you run into information technology, that information technology was more of a song that could be — even though it had the rock side — it could be played on popular radio."
"Shimmer" didn't savor the success of "Hemorrhage" or some of their other hits, merely it did achieve No. 2 on the Billboard Modern Stone Tracks charts. The song that was No. 1 was pretty unstoppable, and Bong holds no grudge confronting the tune they couldn't dethrone.
"It never reached No. one on the charts considering the Goo Goo Dolls song 'Iris' was ahead of it and we could never top that song," Bell recalls. "Only I ever said to people, if at that place was any song I would play 2d fiddle to and I had to do it, information technology would be that song. I'm OK playing second fiddle to "Iris" because that'south a vocal I e'er liked and always wished I had wrote that vocal."
Carl Bell played with Fuel through 2010, though Scallions was out of the band from 2006 until 2010. Fuel nevertheless tours, though at the present time Scallions is the only original member. There's no bad claret — prior interviews suggest Bong is happy that his songs and Fuel lives on, maxim they deserve to be experienced live by new audiences.
Carl Bell also just released his starting time solo record terminal year, a pretty damn good country album chosen Tennessee Fuel— the anthology name a nod to his old Tennessee roots besides as his former band's proper noun. Bell's got a practiced voice, and Fuel fans tin can go cornball through the state version of i of their other hits "Bad Day".
Could nosotros one day see Fuel'southward original lineup? The fact that in that location doesn't seem to be any ill will means I wouldn't rule it out. If and then, I'll exist the first lined upward to sing "Shimmer".
Source: http://www.passtheaux.co/20-years-on-fuel-shimmer/
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