"Try Again"
Single by Keane
from the album Under the Iron Sea
B-side
Released9 February 2007 (2007-02-09)[1]
Recorded2005
Length4:27
LabelIsland
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Andy Green
  • Keane
Keane singles chronology
"A Bad Dream"
(2007)		 "Try Again"
(2007)		 "The Night Sky"
(2007)

"Try Again" is a song performed and composed by English alternative rock band Keane that appears as the 10th track on their second studio album, Under the Iron Sea (2006). The song was released as the sixth single off the album only in Germany on 9 February 2007. This is also Keane's first single with three B-sides, all live performances from Cologne, Germany.

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 is a melancholic piano ballad, featuring drums, synthesizers, an extended outro, along with Rice-Oxley's electric piano. In the extended outro, distortion piano notes can also be heard from lead singer Tom Chaplin's Yamaha CP60M.

Rufus Wainwright was asked by Keane to sing this song along with Chaplin at the Wireless Music Festival on 29 June 2005. Chaplin apparently wanted Wainwright to also play the piano but he refused. The song was recorded and at the Heliosentric Studios, Rye, East Sussex and at The Magic Shop, New York City in late 2005.

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.

Track listings

German CD1[1][2]
No.TitleLength
1."Try Again" 
2."Nothing in My Way" (live) 
3."Is It Any Wonder?" (live) 
4."Bedshaped" (live) 
German CD2[1][3]
No.TitleLength
1."Try Again" 
2."Everybody's Changing" (live) 
3."This Is the Last Time" (live) 
4."A Bad Dream" (live) 
German CD3[1][4]
No.TitleLength
1."Try Again"4:27
2."Somewhere Only We Know" (live)4:23
3."The Frog Prince" (live)4:29
4."Try Again" (live)4:18

Charts

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Germany (Official German Charts)[1] 39
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[5] 83

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Keane – Try Again" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.
  2. ↑ Try Again (German CD1 liner notes). Keane. Island Records. 2006. 1718195.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ↑ Try Again (German CD2 liner notes). Keane. Island Records. 2006. 1718196.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. ↑ Try Again (German CD3 liner notes). Keane. Island Records. 2006. 1718197.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  5. ↑ "Keane – Try Again". Swiss Singles Chart.
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