Nine Days - "Good Friend" (2002)

Nine Days broke onto the scene back in 2000 with their hit “Absolutely (Story of a Girl).” I bought their debut The Madding Crowd because I liked that song, but I didn’t know how good the rest of it would be. I was pleasantly surprised by that album that was full of hooky pop songs with lots of piano and plenty of rock guitar to go around. If this album had come out last year, it would have been huge considering the giant spike in popularity of bands like The Fray and Augustana. Unfortunately Nine Days only released one more single from their debut and it didn’t do as well. They seemed to have all the tell-tale signs of a one hit wonder. That was too bad because I really liked the album and I didn’t want to see them fade into obscurity. A couple years later, I started to hear today’s song on the radio. I was excited that there would finally be a new album coming out. I would look for it when I went to the music store but was always disappointed. I never heard another song from their second album and then I just kind of forgot about them. Last year I was listening to The Madding Crowd and I started wondering what happened to their second album. I did a little research online and found out that it had been shelved indefinitely by the label. The crappiest part was that the band were not longer on the label, but the label wouldn’t give them the rights to the album so they could self release it or release it on another label. It appeared that their sophomore album So Happily Unsatisfied would be another casualty of the big business that is the music industry. The band still wrote some more music and released a few other albums independently, but their true follow up album remained unheard. Finally sometime last year Sony gave up the rights to the band. Nine Days have now made the entire album available for free download on their website. Just click on the album cover above for the link. Nine Days are still writing and recording but will probably never have another hit. That’s just the way it goes sometimes, but in ten years when you see “Absolutely (Story of a Girl)” on VH1’s one hit wonders, remember today’s song “Good Friend” and know that they should have been at least a two hit wonder.


Nine Days - "Good Friend"