buck rogers?

[tali122]

why is the feeder song called "buck rogers" ?- there are no reference in lyrics or anything to suggest a buck rogers theme

[robbo82]

According to the Feeder website:

Buck Rogers is about a relationship - someone's relationship has finished due to a Mr X person (Buck Rogers!*) - the one who has a brand new car, this is why Grant (sorry this 'someone') doesn't want to talk about it anymore. The 'someone' thinks if he starts over again (get a house in Devon etc) with this women he's broken up with, then they will make it together (the relationship will work out). Does that makes sense? Grant says there is also meant to be a bit of humour in the song.

*Buck Rogers is this 'Mr X' person. The name Buck Rogers originated when Grant was messing about on some keyboards and he & Matt Sime (engineer) thought what he was doing sounded futuristic - Buck Rogers became the songs working title, the song was about a mystery figure and Buck Rogers just stuck and conveniently became this mystery figure, "it also makes the song less personal" said Grant.

('Grant' refers to Grant Nicholas, the lead singer and songwriter of Feeder)