‘Spread Your Love’ - B.R.M.C. , 2001
Continuing the theme of favourite songs while heading to festivals as blogged about previously here comes another cracking song that will get you in the mood for a festival if you don’t already have festival fever and shame on you if you don’t. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, or B.R.M.C for short, hail from California in the US and at the time were associated with the whole garage rock craze that happened at the turn of century - Im thinking The Hives and The Strokes here.
I’ve only ever listened to two of their albums B.R.M.C their debut album from which this song comes from and their third album Howl , which is actually my favourite album of theirs. In terms of music there seemed to be a big shift in musical style between albums. The first album contains a lot more distorted , electric guitar (which is always good for an outdoor gig) while Howl is more folk and blues with the acoustic guitar being the central instrument with the harmonica thrown in for good measure.
Spread Your Love is laced from start to finish with distorted power chords that really light up the song. The lyrics ‘Spread your love like a fever, don’t you ever come down’ is repeatedly sung between
‘She spread her love like a big fire
I only saw it once
She gave me love like a sister
She’s bad, but not enough’
I know I’ve always enjoyed playing song when going to music festivals and also late at night at the festivals winding down from the day. Check it out.
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