There was a time, many moons ago, when a Kaiser Chiefs record would come on the radio and you’d be able to grin and bear it. Nay, you even enjoyed it. Fast forward two years to the situation now, where “Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby” times a hundred is drilled in ten times a day and ‘I Predict A Riot’ is the soundtrack to every TV program on ‘out of control’ teens. It’s hell.
And so to their new single ‘The Angry Mob’, a mediocre stub of retro indie pop that – despite their best efforts at social commentary – says nothing at all. The usual tricks are employed – the rhyming verse, the staple ooohs and ahhhs and some throwaway lyrics about the state of Britain, or something. At least the lyrics they’ve written this time show a little effort when they could have so easily kept in form with their other songs and simply repeated the title 20 times over:
"We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day. We like who we like, we hate who we hate, but we're also easily swayed".
Of course, praising the song for the sole reason that it’s not as annoying as their previous singles isn’t really praise at all, but there’s no denying that Kaiser Chiefs are very clever. They’re living testament to the fact that you can release any old shit in this day and age and still make millions of pounds. Bravo lads, bravo.
i dispair that...
...for some reason i find this song the most tolerable of all Kaiser Chiefs songs, and would like to announce my retirement from the world of good-music appreciating.
new lyrics
the only interesting song on the album, but the chorus is very flexible in making up your own lyrics..
I agree
This is their least annoying song.
I think it's because it sounds the least like them though.
Is this the one that starts off like Sgt Peppers?
then has another half of a song of chanting bolted onto it.
Was about to say...
the exact same thing. Yes, yes it is. Sigh to Kaiser Chiefs.
Very harsh
They are not clever.
All they have realised is a certain pop market likes familiarity, hence the continuing use of oooooh aaaah's. The Kaiser Chiefs are no different to a pasta sauce manufacturer releasing the same product with "NEW AND IMPROVED" on the label.
Kaiser Chefs Pasta Sauce
Sounds tasty!
RstJ
Same old and still shit
is hardly going to sell.
the 'angry mob'
"We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day. We like who we like, we hate who we hate, but we're also easily swayed".
oooh
They nicked the
chanty bit from:
'The grand old duke of york
he had ten thousand men
He marched them up to the top of the hill
and marched them back again"
Cheeky.
Thought Employment
was marginally better than the angry DiS mob... and now I'm sorry I ever defended them. Meh.
Kaisers vs Daily Mail readers.
This is definitely a mediocre song, not really going anywhere or saying anything we didn't already know. The Angry Mob most likely a bunch of middle-aged Daily Mail readers who will get outraged at the smallest thing and only because their beloved paper tells them to.
On a slightly different note, is it getting on anyone else's nerves that we have to put up with all these "social commentary" bands, like the Kaisers, Hard-Fi and Arctic Monkeys? Music really has taken a step back to the depressing days of the Smiths, and it's all the worse for it. Thank god for bands like Arcade Fire who aren't afraid to push the boundaries of their songwriting and dare to do something different.