Saturday Flashback: Matt Willis – Crash

“It deserves to be fast”

Tim: For all the celebrations there have been about Busted returning, it’s easy to think that nothing happened during the break up period, but that is totally not the case. Matt, for example, had three top 20 singles; this wasn’t one of them, but it should be been.

Tom: Several thoughts: first, that’s a minimal-effort single cover if ever there was one. 2007 — that’d be just after bottom had fallen out of the singles market, so this’d be one of the last singles to have a proper CD release, I’ll bet.

Tim: It’s a cover of the 1988 song by The Primitives, which is, it pains me to say, actually quite a bit more interesting with more variety in the instrumental.

Tom: Yep, that original is a classic, and I’ll be honest: it’s going to be extremely difficult to beat. But it’s a bloody good effort.

Tim: It’s not, however, quite as heavy as this, which, to me at least, means it doesn’t appear as fast as this (even though they’re both going at an amazing 170BPM). And that’s where this song shines in comparison – it deserves to be fast, the first lyric is about going too fast, and if it was too slow the (oh, so) repetitive lyrics in that fade out would quickly get very, very tiresome. As it is, it’s very enjoyable, and while I might complain normally about the fade-out anyway, if the original authors couldn’t work out how to finish it properly then I won’t hold it against Matt. WELL DONE to everybody involved.