The Gonzales was a marginal for me - I thought it was both quite gimmicky and quite haunting when I first heard it, I've got a bit bored of it now though so no ticky. I think it would be a lame 'winner' though.
The one I really can't understand is Editors - it's dreadful, a weird combination of overblown and really unambitious-sounding, plus he can't hold a vocal line at all.
I don't like the Arctic Monkeys one either, because it's stoppy-starty and I never like that.
I loathe both Editors and Arctic Monkeys but can see why they are getting ticks, they are in the vein of the Britpop many members of this community hold unaccountably dear to their hearts. But the Gonzalez is basically a small step above Rhyming Slang Blunt doing 'Heartbeats' and I did not think that sort of thing was approved of round here at all!
Some of my rave crew also like the Editors, in fact I met some of them after an Editors gig, they'd acquired poppers which we then proceeded to do in the middle of Wetherspoon's = Editors are dirty and wrong and skanky and I DO NOT UNDERSTAND PEOPLE :(
He's much much less heavy-handed than Blunt - Blunt is slightly acousticised rock and Gonzales is more delicate, also his voice is a great deal more intriguing.
And I think it suits the song quite well too, which is probably because the Knife are indie themselves.
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Date: 2006-05-11 10:57 am (UTC)The one I really can't understand is Editors - it's dreadful, a weird combination of overblown and really unambitious-sounding, plus he can't hold a vocal line at all.
I don't like the Arctic Monkeys one either, because it's stoppy-starty and I never like that.
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Date: 2006-05-11 11:01 am (UTC)Some of my rave crew also like the Editors, in fact I met some of them after an Editors gig, they'd acquired poppers which we then proceeded to do in the middle of Wetherspoon's = Editors are dirty and wrong and skanky and I DO NOT UNDERSTAND PEOPLE :(
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Date: 2006-05-11 11:03 am (UTC)And I think it suits the song quite well too, which is probably because the Knife are indie themselves.
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