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Group Love – Tongue Tied

Weird Al Yankovich has sampled them.  Even John Michael Higgins has covered them in a capalla for Vince Vaughn.  Owner of a Lonely Heart was a number 1 hit in the 1980s that has since been the hallmark song of the band Yes.  The song was featured on the Break Up, as Higgins sings it to Vaughn at a family dinner and Yankovich sampled it in Hooked on Polkas.  And now the band that is famed as championing progressive music, writing epic tunes that require 16 musicians and may even last 16 minutes, has spawned an offspring.

The offspring is Ryan Rabin, son of former guitarist from Yes, Trevor Rabin.  Rabin joins Andrew Wessen, Sean Gadd, Hannah  Hopper and Christian Zucconi to form American Indie band Group Love.

 

The band has been touring with Florence and the Machine and released their debut album, Never Trust A Happy Song, in September last year. Tongue Tied is the most recent single to be taken off the album and is the follow up to debut single, Colours.

Their debut video featured the band dressed like Native Indians and bludgeoning a lincher for trying to hang their vocalist, Zucconi, under a tree.  And now, although less graphic and bloody, the video to Tongue Tied has just as much fearfulness packed into the wide eyes of a blond chap, running shirtless and ending up, face down in a inflatable baby pool in the park.  The man is running scared because he is being chased by suited men wearing WWF masks for apparently kissing the wrong girl at a party.

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