Things have never seemed quite the same since that TOTP incident with Richard Bacon introducing The Magic Numbers and making some cheap jibe about their size. It’s not that important, is it? Just means they can’t cartwheel across the stage...
Not that The Magic Numbers need to: they make some gloriously sunny, radio-friendly, melodious songs that make you dream of line dancing in barns and drinking mead. And ‘Take A Chance’ is no exception. Coming in at a bitesize three-thirty-five, quite clearly the quartet are on a world-domination mission and aren’t going to hang their clogs up until everyone is singing their songs in the shower. This is evident from their end of 2006 tour, one that sees them take over some of the UK's larger venues.
‘Take A Chance’ opens with pretty joyous female vocal "oohs" and "aahs" developing into main man Romeo’s (even his name is gushing) spiel on dancing and what you’re gonna do when she turns around. In this case it would be smiling and sickeningly gazing, dreamily, into her eyes and pretending that for three mintues everything was a-okay in a Sesame Street kind of way. Yes, it is inane and a tad annoying; but if this came on at 6am in the morning, on your alarm clock, it would equal a good start to the day.
yup, its inane and a tad annoying
a bit like Prefab Sprout or Beautiful South singing Simple Minds covers.
especially Alive & Kicking.
especially the lines:
What you gonna do when things go wrong?
What you gonna do when it all cracks up?
What you gonna do when the Love burns down?
What you gonna do when the flames go up?
Fair review
unlike the NME's mortifyingly predicatable backlash....
well said
The nme is inane and annoying and very predictable in it's backlash...i reckon this is alright, it's just not summer anymore...
nah
Credit due. This is a 7 and a shows promise for the upcoming album. This song is a great pick me up!
I think this is their
best song. Not lyrically, or video-wise, or whatever. It's a pleasant song. I enjoy singing along to it, but not knowing any of the words. Sort of a wordless half hum. Well done.
i'd say
it's more inert than inane. nice enough though.
i think
its the worst thing they've released. his voice on it is awful - sounds like he's actually singing a pastiche of himself. it plays up to all of their cutesy appeal, but way to deliberatley and sounds like they're trying to basically create a song that will sell. ugh.
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