Album Review
Funeral For A Friend - Back To The Bus CompilationFuneral For A Friend - Back To The Bus Compilation

Back to The Bus is a fun new series of compilation albums but a bit more unique to most compilation albums due to the fact each series is based on one band and they choose a compilation of songs of what they listen to when they’re on their tour bus touring around the country. Babyshambles and The Paddington’s have been the past bands included on the Back To The Bus series and now it’s time for Funeral For A Friend to give their fans an insight of what music they like to listen to on the bus in between shows.

Funeral For A Friends 'Back To The Bus Compilation' features fourteen tracks and shows how open minded to music the band really are with the compilation opening with Queen's 'Don’t Stop Me Now' a bit of Megadeth with 'Holy Wars' in the middle and finishing with Johnny Cash 'Folsom Prison Blues'.

There’s quite a lot of classic rock and roll on the album with Van Halen 'Ain't Talking About Love', Boston's 'More Than A Feeling' and some Black Sabbath with 'Black Sabbath'. There is also a lot of heavy metal with songs from Pantera, Megadeth, The Haunted and the classic Earthtone9 which really reminds me how good Earthtone9 were and is the highlight of the compilation to me.

The cd does come with a few extras with an exclusive Funeral For A Friend live track and an exclusive interview with the band, so the band are actually included on the compilation as well as their favourite tracks to listen to.

Overall the compilation is a pretty random mixture and wont appeal to everyone but if you own or like a few of the songs here it’s definitely worth checking out, and if your a hardcore Funeral For A Friend fan I’m pretty sure the cd is already sitting nicely in your collection.

3.5/5

Review by Trigger
 Band Members
Funeral For A Friend - Band
Matthew Davies (Lead vocals, guitar)
Gareth Davies (Bass, vocals)
Kris Coombs (lead Guitar)
Ryan Richards (Drums, vocals)
Darran Smith (Guitar)
 Track Listing
1. Queen - Don't stop me now
2. Dub War - Enemy maker
3. Earthtone9 - Tat twam asi
4. Faith No More - Midlife crisis
5. Filter - Take a picture
6. Boston - More than a feeling
7. Van Halen - Ain't talking about love
8. Far - Water and soloutions
9. Megadeath - Holy wars
10. The Haunted - Bury your dead
11. Pantera - Mouth for war
12. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
13. Longview - Further
14. Johnny Cash - Folsom prison blues
15. Funeral For A Friend - exclusive live track
16. Tourbus Tales - an interview with the band
 Band Related Links
Funeral For A Friend Myspace
Funeral For A Friend Official Website
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?