17. The Detroit Cobras - 'Hey Sailor'
This song gives me the horn, despite having a tune slightly reminiscent of a certain football-related novelty record from last summer. I'm not going to ruin your day by mentioning which one. Best forget I mentioned the resemblance at all, actually. Just gaze at the cover of the latest issue of Careless Talk Costs Lives and think "yeeeeaaaahhh"...
18. The Kills - 'Wait'
Probably The Kills track which sounds least like they want to be either Royal Trux or PJ Harvey. Instead, I think the key influence may be The Velvet Underground. That's what I hear in the "la la la, la la la la" refrain towards the end anyway, and that's what seals this as the band's most essential song in my opinion, and one I always picture people slowdancing to, heads resting on each other's shoulders, at the end of a night. That and the fantastic lyric "write it on the rocks and then go tell me where it is", which has a certain mythic quality. Ah, the pain and the chequered past, the yearning and the impatience - it makes the good stuff all the sweeter.
This song gives me the horn, despite having a tune slightly reminiscent of a certain football-related novelty record from last summer. I'm not going to ruin your day by mentioning which one. Best forget I mentioned the resemblance at all, actually. Just gaze at the cover of the latest issue of Careless Talk Costs Lives and think "yeeeeaaaahhh"...
18. The Kills - 'Wait'
Probably The Kills track which sounds least like they want to be either Royal Trux or PJ Harvey. Instead, I think the key influence may be The Velvet Underground. That's what I hear in the "la la la, la la la la" refrain towards the end anyway, and that's what seals this as the band's most essential song in my opinion, and one I always picture people slowdancing to, heads resting on each other's shoulders, at the end of a night. That and the fantastic lyric "write it on the rocks and then go tell me where it is", which has a certain mythic quality. Ah, the pain and the chequered past, the yearning and the impatience - it makes the good stuff all the sweeter.
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