#7

More percussive than harmonious but this throaty drawl basically is the song.

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#8

My favourite example of this type of thing.

Kevin Rowland is repeatedly asked by his mate Bill “what’s she like?”. He spends the first part of the song telling him what she isn’t like, basically an opportunity to hilariously attack those he disapproves of (newly wealthy peasants, people who use words like “fabulous” and “super”, CND, the English upper classes…) He then has a moment of revelation where he realises how to perfectly express what she is Like. The final part of the song is Dexys going full throttle whiile Kevin growls, moans, woah woah’s and la-la’s like his life depends on it.

Still the funniest, angriest, and most transcendent love song I’ve ever heard.

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#10

Oh oh
Oh oh

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#15

thugger has loads of these but particularly like the little brrr bop bop bop on this one

#16

Suppose ‘Come On Eileen’ is the best version of this really

#17

Forest Swords has a knack for this, using vocal samples in a similar way Burial does but chopping out the words altogether.


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You’re right, that’s what I meant to post tbh. rookie mistake.

#19

None better:

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#22

Also the last minute of this excellent song:

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#23

Usually I don’t like the whole “oh oh oh oh” sort of thing but it’s done pretty perfectly here.

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#24

“Into the Street” by The Twilight Singers is probably the most brutal one. It’s sad enough at the beginning, but then at the end when the voices all swell over that outro:

#25

The whole ending of How to Disappear Completely:

#26

Almost forgot the best one: Elliott Smith’s I Didn’t Understand