THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

904-Feeder-Buck Rogers.

2001-Number 5 single.

Best Bit-At 0.28. For the youngsters, a C.D. player was something that you could listen to music on, it was introduced many years after the Gramophone, but well before the computer.

Feeder are a Welsh Rock band, formed in Newport, in 1994 by Grant Nicholas, Jon Lee (1968-2002,) and Taka Hirose, the band are named after Nicholas’ pet goldfish.

‘Buck Rogers’ was written by Grant Nicholas, with the aim of having the American Rock Band ‘SR-71’ record it, as he thought it didn’t suit the style of music Feeder were trying to achieve, but their producer Gil Norton saw the potential, and convinced them to record it themselves.The song tells the story of a relationship ending,in which the girlfriend of the narrator leaves him for a character called Buck Rogers. The songs writer has said, ‘I was going through a break up, and it was inspired by that.’ The songs title was inspired by the television series ‘Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,’ Nicholas had been experimenting on a keyboard, and told his engineer, Matt Sime, that he thought what he was playing sounded futuristic, they both agreed a good title would be Buck Rogers.

Nicholas has stated that the lyrics are meant to be stupid and funny,he has said that people always ask him about the lyric ‘Drink Cider from a lemon,’ he has said that as a teenager he and his friends would go out drinking cider, but because of it’s taste, they would add lemonade.

‘He’s got a brand new car, looks like a Jaguar, it’s got leather seats, it’s got a CD player.’