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Submitted by Erik Gonzalez on August 13, 2007.Last week there was only one new song on the NME chart, so I skipped. This week, we get four new treats, so I'll actually chime in. The #1 song remains the same, the Pigeon Detectives with "Take Her Back" and four new songs made their way into the top 10:
#5 The White Stripes: "You Don't Know What Love Is" - You can read what Betsy and I think of Icky Thump, but this track is a pretty "by the numbers" White Stripes song. I do like the fact that the video looks like it was shot in Iceland. Not sure why I think Iceland. Maybe I just like Iceland.
#7 The Twang: "Two Lovers" - Wow, British bland rock. And jeez, the video is like a bad British soap opera. What's not to not love?
#8 The Rumble Strips: "Girls and Boys in Love" - I like the band name, and we seem to have a "people in love" theme for the last couple songs. And thankfully, this is both a band and video I can get behind - sort of Adam Ant meets Buffy meets teenage dance party meets NIN at Woodstock. I like it!
#10 The Enemy: "You're not Alone" - Post Oasis/Radiohead Brit rock. Nothing too interesting.
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imaginary dana said on August 13, 2007:
This is why we always need you around, greggoir -- you're our secret inside scoop into UK music!!
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imaginary embracey said on August 13, 2007:
Is "Girls and Boys In Love" a conscious homage to the mid-'60s Motown hit "Heat Wave"?
One could practically replace the Rumble Strips' vocal track with Martha and the Vandellas'!
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Erik Gonzalez said on August 13, 2007:
Holy crap embracey, you're right. No wonder I liked the Rumble Strips song - I had heard it before! Damn you bands and your trickery!
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Pete said on August 17, 2007:
The answer to your question is no!
Girls and Boys in Love has a bouncy beat, but there the similarity ends. It is certainly not Motown by any stretch of the imagination. The chords and structure are also different, so it would not be practical to replace Martha's vocal soundtrack with that of Waller's.
I like this track very much, and the same goes for Heat Wave, but I can enjoy both for what they are, and am not hung up on any spurious ill-judged comparisons.
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greggoir said on August 13, 2007:
The singer for the Enemy was in the British music news a while back for saying nobody wants to listen to upper class bands like the Artic Monkeys. He also added that he'll never forget his working class roots by living in Coventry (which isn't that bad imo) the rest of his life. The irony is that he lives in Kenilworth, which is a very rich town a few miles away from Coventry. It made me chuckle.