Admittedly, it steals much from ‘It’s The End Of The World As We Know It…’ but that’s not exactly a bad thing, is it? Plus, anything that makes you want to dance elbows-in-the-air ala Stipey (which it does to me) gets our vote.
While the albums might have taken a drop in quality, songs like this, ‘The Great Beyond’ and even ‘Imitation Of Life’ prove that the boys from Athens, GA are still king of the 7”, but it’d be nice to occasionally see a bit more of the dark stuff.
Rip-off
Steals pretty much everything more like. Mood, lyrical themes/content, chord patterns, style... perhaps their most un-original song as yet. However, they pull it off in my book because of their status and history, the cracking video (CNN/Sky satire, unique new uses of bullet-time photography and Canary Wharf backdrops), and because their self-rip-off is of one of their most classic of anthems.
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The reasons behind re-recording "Bad Day" is a mystery, but I can't help but feel it has something to do with their greatest hits album...... mate....
Plagiarism!
See this: http://www.pudelsi.art.pl/umpa/wolnoscslowa.mpg
The same idea...