Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest single. Today Mick Coll from Logan tells us about "Jump In Again" from their brand new album "The Great Unknown," which was released today. We now turn it over to Mick for the story: A few months ago no one in the band would ever have suspected that 'Jump In Again' would be our debut offering to the world. It was a song that had pretty much slipped off of the band radar.
On the run up to recording the album we managed to get around about 22 songs recorded at a demo level. The problem being, a good chunk of these songs were jammed out in the studio one day, recorded the next, and forgotten about the day after that
"Jump In Again" was one of those songs.
It was during our first conference call with producer, Keith Olsen, that the song reared its head again. Keith was naming some of the tracks on from our 'demo bank' that he thought would make the album. He was raving about this song called 'Jump In Again'. Steve and I were looking at each other, completely puzzled. Neither of us were immediately aware what song he was talking about. It turns out that the rest of the guys were in the same boat as us. We dug the song out later and yeah we liked it. We still didn't think it had hit single written over it though.
When it came to rehearsing the song during pre-production, we found it one of the easier and more enjoyable songs to play. It also translated really well to being played acoustically, which is in my opinion one of the signs of a killer song.
During the recording process 'Jump In Again' quickly grew into a monster. It was one of the first tracks to have all the parts down for it
and then came the string section. At this point everyone knew that the song had developed into something pretty special. When we flew to LA to begin the mixing, 'Jump In Again' was the first track to be fully mixed and completely finalized. We took the song over to the house of our American Manager to play it back through his (very impressive) media system.
As the final chords rang out and the strings faded away, we all sat silent with big smiles on our faces. George, our American Manager (who is generally a very quiet guy and rarely curses) just uttered the words:
"Now THAT'S a f**kin' hit!!"
The song itself is about jumping into a relationship too quickly. In particular going from one bad relationship straight into another, even more horrific one, and becoming trapped.
The lyrics "Push just a little too far / Take just a little too much" describe the extreme treatment placed upon the individual that ultimately led to him having to walk away: "I hate to leave you like this". The moral of the story is this: Don't be a crazy psychopathic jealous control freak with anger issues, and maybe you won't get dumped.
Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album - right here!
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