The Flashing Lights
The Flashing Lights was a Canadian alternative rock band that was active in… Read Full Bio ↴The Flashing Lights was a Canadian alternative rock band that was active in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The band was founded by Matt Murphy, as a side project, when not performing and recording with the band The Super Friendz. Their debut album, Where the Change Is, was released in 1999. A second album, Sweet Release, followed in 2001. The band has been on hiatus ever since.

"I met Henri when I was in grade 8," Matt Murphy reminisces. "He came over to my neighbor's house wearing a Jam shirt. I was like, Hey, right on! I like the Jam." Thus began a rock 'n' roll friendship that would eventually lead singer/guitarist Murphy and bassist Henri Sangalang to move from Halifax to Toronto and become the exceptionally fine Flashing Lights, along with drummer Steve Pitkin and keyboardist, tambourine tapper and harmonica hooter Gaven Dianda.

Sangalang and Murphy formed their first band together in grade 12, and Sangalang insists that the music they made at the time was influential on what they're playing now, except with some proficiency in their playing.

Murphy was playing in various other bands around Halifax (including good-time country outfit Little Orton Hoggett) when he decided to jumpstart The Flashing Lights as a 60ss cover band, playing songs by The Kinks, The Yardbirds, and [artistTthe Who.

Alongside The Super Friendz, Murphy made The Flashing Lights a time vehicle for his own 60's inspired yet undeniably '90s creations.

While it might be thought that Murphy's instantly recognizable voice would make The Flashing Lights indistinguishable from The Super Friendz, the band's distinct flavour is apparent.

While gems like "Elevature" and the first single, "Where Do the Days Go", could have been Slide Show - era Super Friendz numbers, the punchy power-pop arrangements are uniquely Flashing Lights.
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The Flashing Lights Lyrics


Aim to Please Well there were days Surely days you remember Though I ca…
Been Waiting At a bus stop, feeling lazy Caught a northbound for a…
Day Like That Monday came and Tuesday followed. I'll never see another da…
Elevature There's a mooky stream of psychotic dreams Running through…
Friends You Learn to Hate I don't know where we used to run Under this pale…
Gone Are the Good Times She's stuck in the back seat on a late night…
Half the Time I lost my true love back in 1989. She was…
Heart Like Mine I checked into worlds without you. You can't loose on…
Highschool Someone from my high school must have really hurt me…
It Oh, I wish you could have come I had a lot…
It's Alright Looking for the stars all night Which you can't see for…
Keep It to Yourself Oh, I wish you could have come I had a lot…
Landslide Every night lit up by flashing TV lights Is that the…



Rotary Hotel It's a long way up to the rotary hotel but…
Same Old Life You are afraid to try So you've got no right to…
Same Thing Twice Tonight, tonight Okay, anchors away And no sign for many…
Since They Were Crowned So long this love has been bottled up inside at…
Summertime Climb I put my headphones on and sang the blues. Though…
Talk to the Hand Talk to the hand I don't want to know. I…
The Patient You Forgot to See Between the calls from who knows who there's never time…
The Unattached This town's made of tar. So when no one gets…
Too Delightful If you're coming over Bring back that heart Without my eng…
Where Do the Days Go? Where do the days go? Silent fractions, spending all our tim…
Where It Started Okay, that's where you started And where you're coming from…
Where the Change Is Since you've been gone, I've been untrue. Hoping that you…


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