Songs that tick all the boxes for you

Trying to find a way to post how much I like this song:

For me:

Slow electronic into with weird background vocals and drum machine (maybe)
Big blustery riff from a band ‘going more pop’
Opening track and hit single (if number 16 counts) from a concept album that doesn’t really give an indication of the fact it’s a concept album
Massive chorus
Bit near the end where it slows down and then they just repeat the same line over and over again getting louder
Kind of derailinbg a band’s career for doing sometihng different. Not sure how much Funeral For a Friend recovered from their ‘man lost at sea’ concept album.

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Maybe just post baffling concept albums or someting.

Not claiming this a work of genius by the way.

Other songs that tick several boxes:

Enter Shikari - Adieu (Routron 5000 remix)
Therapy? - Lonely Cryin’ Only
Underworld - Rez/Cowgirl - Reading 1996 live version.

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Mysterious (nonsense) lyrics draws me in

The little chugalugalug chugalugalug chug chug bits

The dynamic shift and the distortion kicking in

The spidery riff that sounds like it’s attached to a rope and twisted round and then left to unwind and spin

The weird vocal effect

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There might be another thread in this but I saw Maybe She Will support Trail of Dead over 10 years ago and and remember thinking that they tick all my boxes and I should like them but they just didn’t click with me at all. (Apols to any Maybe She Will fans here)

  • Phil Spector girl-group sound
  • Byrds Jingly-Jangly guitars
  • Deliberately Amateurish video
  • C86 vibes
  • 3 minutes long
  • Low-fi production