Appearing in 1998 as an angry band of Scottish punks with Roddy Woomble of Carnoustie leading the band, Idlewild eventually achieved commercial recognition by refining their taste for large-scale guitar rock, and combining it with an apparently unknown gift for melody and tenderness. 1998's Captain was their debut release, a mini-album of chaotic punk, which, while achieving a significant fanbase among British teenagers, demonstrated little of the facets that would mark them out as such talented indie-rockers. Some of those were seen on that year's full-length, "Hope Is Important". Carrying a more subdued, top 20 hit single "When I Argue I See Shapes", Idlewild started to make commercial and critical inroads, something cemented by the top 40 success of follow-up, "I'm A Message". 2000's "100 Broken Windows" took this indie-punk sound and refined it, ballads like album closer "The Bronze Medal" were already a million miles from the nihilism and chaos of early tracks such as "Self Healer".
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You thought shyness was to blame
And you'd get to live your life again
When you get to wish everyone goodnight
As the crowd booed out your name
At least they spelled it right, so you don't complain
Why everyone is wishing you goodnight
And maybe I'm wrong
And maybe you're right
What if I was the only one who can say goodnight
It's your heroes who are to blame
Constantly saying things that they don't explain
Well that's too bad, but I still can't say goodnight
And I just can't stay tonight
I woke up saying goodnight