Good Souls

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"Good Souls"
Good souls.jpg
Single by Starsailor
from the album Love Is Here
Released23 April 2001
Genre Alternative rock
Length4:53 (Album Version)
4:28 (Video Edit)
Label Chrysalis
Songwriter(s) James Walsh, James Stelfox, Barry Westhead, Ben Byrne
Starsailor singles chronology
"Fever"
(2001)
"Good Souls"
(2001)
"Alcoholic"
(2001)
Music video
Good Souls on YouTube

"Good Souls" is the second single from the album Love Is Here by British alternative rock band Starsailor, released in 2001. It is the first Starsailor song to have a promotional video.

Contents

Music video

Starsailor playing Good Souls in their music video. Goodsouls2.jpg
Starsailor playing Good Souls in their music video.

The video starts with James playing the guitar alone sitting on a chair by the time the camera shows the band member Barry throwing accidentally a bottle of water after he drank and the water starts to spill over the floor while James Walsh walks in order to meet the band there's else a scene that shows how Ben Byrne throws a broken drumstick and how it falls. Some of the captures shows directly James's face specially the final scene when the camera focus on James face for a second and then the lights turn off. In another scene James 'Stel' Stelfox gets closer to the transistors while he plays.

This is Starsailor's first video filmed black and white and else the first introspective video of their career.

Track listings

CD

  1. "Good Souls"
  2. "The Way Young Lovers Do"
  3. "Good Souls" (Echoboy remix)
  4. "Good Souls" (video)

7"

  1. "Good Souls"
  2. "The Way Young Lovers Do"

Cassette

  1. "Good Souls"
  2. "The Way Young Lovers Do"
  3. "Good Souls" (Echoboy remix)

Charts

Chart (2001)Peak
position
UK Singles Chart [1] 12
US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks [2] 28

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