#56: HOT CHIP
"Over And Over"
from the album The Warning
Released: May 2006
Beginning with a herd of Alpine cattle tiptoeing through a plumber's bedroom at dawn - that was Chris Welch in Melody Maker
talking about a percussion solo on a Graham Collier album; give credit
where it's due - this is the first single from the UK male vocal/instrumental
group's second long-playing disc. It is a smashing smorgasbord of
hotly-tipped (or Chipped?) innuendo which is fully redolent of DFA's
trademark production techniques, despite the fact that DFA did not
produce the track, and is sure to appeal to fans of Interpol, The
Rapture and Franz Ferdinand. The saucy letter-spelling is reminiscent of
legendary Cambridge legend Syd "Rock" Barrett and in places is rather
rude!
Actually
the song sounds like Squeeze trapped under a malfunctioning air
compressor. The "tell you"s are really "hell you"s. It is about sexual
jealousy and contemplation of the primitive flimsiness of sexual
congress. The Catholic Church would nod eagerly at the monkey with a
miniature cymbal analogy (were the band thinking about how Gertrude
Stein described Hemingway, i.e. "two peas and a chip"?) as for different
reasons would have Mao. "Laid back? We'll give you playback," they
sing, and it isn't about boring music journalists. The song's
culminating tables-turning - is HE better than ME at it? - places it not
too far away from Bacharach and Costello's "God Give Me Strength,"
except it's some unmentionable thing else that they want wiped from
their memory.
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