Exclusive Download: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin's 'Yellow Missing Signs'

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Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin have released four albums since 2005, but the Springfield, Missouri band are a prolific bunch, resulting in a rather large backlog of material that either turned up on singles and EPs or ended up on the cutting room floor. Tape Club, a compilation due in stores on October 18th, collects the best of the group's non-album material, with over 100 leftover songs boiled down to a tight 26 tracks. "Yellow Missing Signs," one of the most intriguing numbers on Tape Club, finds the band venturing outside of their comfort zone with lyrics about an unsolved crime in their hometown set to an effervescent synthpop arrangement. You can download the track for free here and pre-order the set from Polyvinyl here.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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