i love Interpol but i’ve always thought this is one of their most deeply average songs so i’m always surprised that it’s the big hit
chorus is ‘fine’, verses are better
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Puppets innit
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Slow Hands is so much better!
That’ll be it, I must learn what a chorus is
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I do like this song but the chorus always felt a bit awkward.
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It’s one of their best songs (though I’m not sure that negates what you say)
Bear with me. I think the verse/bridge might be the best thing these guys did, but the chorus is the worst thing.
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I always felt “Slow Hands” was the one that fits this criteria off Antics. Great verses, pre-chorus and all that jazz. The chorus just falls flat imo.
Don’t really get this one either. Obviously fair enough if you think the song is shite, but the whole thing is about build and release to the hook? They bring it in, then develop it. It barely even gets started until the bridge. It’s not someone singing ‘oooooh I love ya baby’ 3x over then back to the soaring verses or anything
But I don’t think the song is shite, I really like everything about the song, especially the killer baseline right at the start, up until what is in my view a dull let down of a chorus.
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That is great fun in comparison to this, a hook so turgid that it threatens to derail an entire album
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You’ve just reminded me of this from Big Boi……
Ridiculously tight verses and then that fucking horror show of a hook
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Ugh. Needless to say that was the last we heard of ‘Vonnegutt’.
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The chorus just doesn’t take off the way it should. Great pop tune otherwise.
Shiny Happy People is completely fine other than the chorus. Nice verses, fun jangle pop guitar line… Really half arsed attempt to tie it all together with the hook though
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I always had it as a song you either accept or reject wholesale, but I guess the verses could flow into one of REM’s moodier choruses. As opposed to Stand, which is goofy from start to finish.
(I like them both)
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This one has annoyed me since it first came out. Goes up when it should go down. I still find it an odd listening experience 20 years later.
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Absolutely not! It all leads up to that great great chorus.
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Yeah the verses hint at something a bit different with the key and the delivery. With things like “there’s no need to cry, happy, happy”, it doesn’t really sound like he’s having a whale of the time until coupled with how on the nose the chorus is. Could otherwise be a nice song about seeing the positives through depression or something
The hook is the bassline imo. Think the verses are the catchiest bit (everyone remembers ‘Rosemaaaryyyy’ far more than the chorus). Chorus is fine but can see why it’d be nomimated here
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