In context of the album, it's definitely one fo the tracks that conclusively fails to work. In fact there are only three (maybe four) tracks one that album that really, which are (in order of effectiveness)
Phantom Planet - Just (Radiohead)
Amy Winehouse - Valerie (Zutons)
Tiggers feat ODB - Toxic (Britney)
Mark Ronson/Daptone Horns - God Put a Smile On Your Face (*ahem* Coldplay)
Just was clearly written with that brass part in mind, Amy Winehouse takes the Rod Stewart out of Valerie and northern souls all over it from a great height, anything track with ODB on it is worth a listen and the last one gets in there because it doesn't sound at all like Coldplay. Lily Allen I quite like as a frothy popstrel, but she just doesn't have the chutzpah needed to deliver that song's chorus (Ricky Wilson just barely does, moon-faced latter-day George Formby that he is).
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Date: 2007-07-13 05:01 pm (UTC)Just was clearly written with that brass part in mind, Amy Winehouse takes the Rod Stewart out of Valerie and northern souls all over it from a great height, anything track with ODB on it is worth a listen and the last one gets in there because it doesn't sound at all like Coldplay. Lily Allen I quite like as a frothy popstrel, but she just doesn't have the chutzpah needed to deliver that song's chorus (Ricky Wilson just barely does, moon-faced latter-day George Formby that he is).
Umm... I may have overthought this one!