Try Again (Keane song)

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This article is about the song by Keane. For the single with the same name by Aaliyah, see Try Again.

"Try Again"
Single by Keane
from the album Under the Iron Sea
B-side(s)	"Somewhere Only We Know" "The Frog Prince" "Everybody's Changing" "This Is the Last Time" "A Bad Dream" "Nothing in My Way" "Is It Any Wonder?" "Bedshaped"
Released	January 12 - 26, 2007
Format	3 CD singles
Recorded	Helioscentric Studios, Rye, East Sussex
Genre	Alternative, Piano rock
Length	4:27
Label	Island Records
Producer(s)	Andy Green
Chart positions
#81 (Germany)
Keane singles chronology
"Nothing in My Way" (October 2006)	"Try Again" (January 2007)	"A Bad Dream" (January 2007)
Under the Iron Sea track listing
"Crystal Ball" (9)	"Try Again" (10)	"Broken Toy" (11)

"Try Again" is a song performed and composed by English piano rock and alternative rock band Keane that appears as the tenth track on their second album, Under the Iron Sea. The song was released as the fifth single off the album, and currently is being only sold in Germany.[1] This is also Keane's first single with three b-sides, all live performances in Duisburg, Germany; however, the band have no record of having played recently there.

Contents 1 Track listings 1.1 German CD 1 1.2 German CD 2 1.3 German CD 3 2 Composition and recording 3 Information about song's meaning 4 Artwork 5 External links

[edit] Track listings

[edit] German CD 1

1. "Try Again"
2. "Somewhere Only We Know" (live)
3. "The Frog Prince" (live)
4. "Try Again" (live)

[edit] German CD 2

1. "Try Again"
2. "Everybody's Changing" (live)
3. "This Is the Last Time" (live)
4. "A Bad Dream" (live)

[edit] German CD 3

1. "Try Again"
2. "Nothing in My Way" (live)
3. "Is It Any Wonder?" (live)
4. "Bedshaped" (live)

[edit] Composition and recording

It was composed by Tim Rice-Oxley in early 2005, and first played live two weeks after composed by Rice-Oxley. The song was first played with the electric piano and a tambourine as very much a work-in-progress, and as a result was shorter than the recorded version. The album version includes drums and an extended outro, with the distortion piano Tim began to use on "Put It Behind You".
Rufus Wainwright was asked by Keane to sing this song along with Chaplin at the Wireless Music Festival on June 29, 2005. Chaplin apparently wanted Wainwright to also play the piano but he refused.

• Tempo: 72bpm
• Key: EbMaj7
• Time signature: 4/4 8-beat

It was recorded and at the Heliosentric Studios, Rye, East Sussex and at The Magic Shop, New York in late 2005.

[edit] Information about song's meaning

Rice-Oxley explains his thoughts about "Try Again" on the fifth Keane podcast:

“

I always think about it as being a commuter's love song. There's something weird about that feeling of being on a train really really late at night when there's just a handful of you there, and I always wonder what everyone's story is - especially people who've been to work and probably got up at some horrendous hour of the morning, and they're traipsing back to their home somewhere in the suburbs.

”

[edit] Artwork

CD1

CD2

CD3

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Keaneshaped - Information about record

Keane
Tim Rice-Oxley | Tom Chaplin | Richard Hughes
Adam Tudhope | Dominic Scott | Andy Green | Alex Lake | Ed Roe
Discography
Studio albums: Hopes and Fears | Under the Iron Sea
Lives and EPs: Live Recordings 2004 | Keane Live 06 | Live from London
Singles: "Call Me What You Like" | "Wolf at the Door" | "Everybody’s Changing (Part 1)" | "This Is the Last Time (Part 1)" | "Somewhere Only We Know" | "Everybody’s Changing (Part 2)" | "Bedshaped" | "This Is the Last Time (Part 2)"| "We Might As Well Be Strangers" | "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" | "Bend and Break" | "Atlantic" | "Is It Any Wonder?" | "Crystal Ball" | "Nothing in My Way" | "Try Again" | "A Bad Dream"
DVDs: Hopes and Fears DVD | Strangers | Under the Iron Sea DVD
Tours: Hopes and Fears Tour | Under the Iron Sea Tour
Other: List of songs by Keane
Related articles
Piano rock | Battle, East Sussex | Rye, East Sussex | War Child (charity) | Help - a Day in the Life
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