Indie Disco Anthems
Is there any time better than that period in your life when you discover that not only do other human beings listen to music akin to your tastes, but they also celebrate this in the form of interpretive dance in clubs? Ah, the indie disco, now immortalised in song by Neil Hannon who happens to be one of our ATL session guests this week. In honour of Divine Comedy's latest we sent the office round robin email to illicit the definitive ATLÌýend of the night anthems. Get involved and shout us here, or and we will give y'all a shout on the show tonight.
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FLEETWOOD MAC - EVERYWHERE
(Rigsy - ATL presenter)
Not too obvious yet pretty well known and sentimental enough to soundtrack the drunken hugging (or holding up) of random strangers, an obligation at the end of any decent indie disco. Also - the lyrics are so ridiculously simple and straightforward even the most wobbly of dancers can roar that chorus like they wrote it themselves. Everyone leaves smiling - absolute result.
RADIOHEAD - JUST
(Amy McGarrigle - ATL Content Assistant)
From the first few bars of acoustic guitar, to the screaming ascending guitar line, this song still makes me wanna leg it from the bar to the nearest available face to shout in. Cue the chorus and you'll get a room full of preppy indie kids screaming, "You do it to yourself, just you! You And No-one Else!" Ah, the angst. Also note Mark Ronson's version on 'Exit Music' was pretty epic! Bringing the funk to Radiohead with an injection of brass. Though, it still can't competeÌýwith the original.
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - KILLING IN THE NAME
(Warren Bell - Online guru)
For all the cardigans, shoegazing, kooky haircuts, fey mannerisms and try-hard coolness that many associate with the species indiginous to the Indie Disco, we all know perfectly well that underneath those genteel exteriors lie volcanos of pent up emotion just ready to erupt. For this reason, Killing In The Name is the perfect track for the Indie Disco-ee to let all that passive/aggressive anger out. Preferably sandwiched between tracks by The Cardigans and Belle & Sebastian in order to highlight the wild metamorphasis it engenders, this is the song where the mask slips and all those carefully rehearsed affectations and gestures give way to a spontaneous maelstrom of pogo-ing, fist-pumping and very loud shouty swearing. And relax...
THE SMITHS - THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT
(Paul McClean - ATL Producer)
As ever, showing my age, but this is Morrissey at his plaintive, eloquent and darkly humourous finest. Its unlikely to be getting much rotation at the contemporary indie disco, but it is the epitome of bedsit longing and will always encourage groups of men of a certain age to form woozy circles on the dancefloor, eyes closed and wailing the lyrics to this song.
ELBOW - ONE DAY LIKE THIS
(Joe Lindsay - ATL office plaything)
Paul McClean stole mine, the handsome swine, so I am gonna go with Elbow, One Day Like This for current indie-disco greatness..We indie-boys are a fey lot at best and a good, proper end of the night tune at an indie disco has to tug a heartstring with the £2 a pint massive..I always love a tune that encourages mass singalong and arms thrown round your mates and that someone whom you wanna bring home and show your record/comic/book/severed head collection...
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