What's The Story?
The Pathological Lovers are a new-ish band that have a large following in the city of St. John's, probably based at least somewhat on the renown of longtime local musician Jody Richardson. Best Served is the lead single from their debut album Calling All Favours, and it has a frigging hilarious music video. I think you can find their album on some online vendors, and if interested, their site is here. If you want a genre, they labels themselves as "Melodramatic popular song/other rock".
Who's To Blame?
A waiter who loves the word easement, and parking his jeep on whatever ones he can find.
Why ♥ It?
This song seems a bit long for a radio-ready single at 5 minutes plus tax, but it actually works to keep the novelty for that long while having all the choruses and hooks you'd expect of a single.
I'd be remiss not to mention the lyrics to this song up front. They're easy to miss, but clever as hell and a lot of fun. For a long time, the only line I ever noticed was No one gets laid lying on the couch, get out and lower your standards for a little while, but there are plenty more where that came from.
When I hum this (and most Lovers songs), I often catch myself humming along to the keys. The effect that Grant King uses on this (and most Lovers songs) is bright and stands out while still complementing the guitar perfectly.
The breakdown at 3:00 that moves into a slow dance bit at 3:25 is cool. No fancy adjectives here, it's just cool.
If Kings of Leon had a great keys player, a different singer, wrote clever lyrics and were more upbeat, Sex on Fire may have come out sounding like this. Or maybe not, but fuck it--I really haven't heard many/any big label bands up this alley, and this tune is a great radio-ready showcase of that.
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