The One That Got Away (From Me) (Pressure - Anathema)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Pressure - Anathema
Date:	18/01/08 (32 review reads)
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Advantages: A strong and accessible gloomy rock song.

Disadvantages: It doesn't exist.

Here's another oddity in the Anathema discography, a single compiled and pressed by Music For Nations that ended up being canned due to lack of promotion, though even weirder it somehow ended up in the dooyoo database around that time (maybe that's where the promoters went wrong...)

This single was supposed to collect the radio edit of 'Pressure' with the full album version that's just over a minute longer. The edit was accompanied by a cheap music video of singer Vincent Cavanagh driving along and singing at night, which websites claim was only ever aired once on VH1 but which I know for a fact was doing the rounds on the rock music channels for at least a couple of weeks, and it actually ends up being better for the editing. A fairly standard modern Anathema song led by slow piano with guitars and drums in the background, it's suitably depressing and has a memorable chorus, and would certainly have been at least a partial success if the band hadn't been messed around like this.

Of course, Anathema's creativity thrives on depression and disappointment, so this could optimistically be seen as adding fuel to the fire - indeed, perhaps the whole thing was staged by the crafty Music For Nations folk just to make sure the Cavanagh brothers remembered how cruel the world is and didn't start writing about money and bitches and things, and become rubbish overnight. Even if it had been released, this single wouldn't have been very interesting for those who waited for the album, as the only B-side it includes is the full version of the song which would turn out to be more common than the main edit. Anathema always had the potential to be as popular as Radiohead and all those other depressing bands, but it just didn't end up happening.

1. Pressure (Edit)
2. Pressure

Summary: Unreleased single from 'A Fine Day to Exit' (2001).