Bloc Party - I Still Remember \ The Prayer

Wow. Ok I loved Bloc Party's Silent Alarm. And then Weekend in the City came out. And I sort of liked it. Then I listened to it again, and then again. This is not Silent Alarm. This is soooooo much more. This adds a whole nother depth to this band. Absolutely brilliant. Every song soars in epic waves and crashing drums. I highly recommend it. It seems to be a story of a guy that takes a trip to the city for the weekend to visit a lover. I only drool more when I found there are 12 other tracks floating around that didnt make the album. But they are available on the Japanese and Canandian imports and ITunes. Don't walk.... run! Go get the album you will nto be disapointed. This is the video for "I Still Remember". A great song about unrealized love.

Bloc Party has been together since 2002, with names such as Superheroes of BMX, The Angel Range, Diet, and Union, before settling on Bloc Party in September 2003. Band members Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack have formed the fulcrum of these various incarnations, and were subsequently joined by bassist Gordon Moakes who answered an advert in the NME, and most recently drummer Matt Tong. Lissack and singer/guitarist Kele Okereke first met in 1998 in Essex, where Lissack had grown up and Okereke attended school. Lissack attended Bancroft's School and Okereke attended Ilford County High School until 16 then Trinity School for sixth form. They bumped into each other again in 1999 at the Reading Festival and soon after formed the band Union.

In 2003 they changed their name from Union to Bloc Party. The name is a play on block party,[1] a name for an informal neighbourhood festival, which might hire a local band as entertainment. The band has said that the name was not intended to be an allusion to the Soviet Bloc or the Canadian political party Bloc Québécois; the absence of a 'k' is purely for aesthetics.

However, the band's bassist, Gordon Moakes, said on the group's official internet forum that it was more a merging of the eastern "blocs" and the western "parties", in the political sense. Moakes notes that the name was not driven by politics, but rather it "looked, sounded, seemed fine so we went with it."