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SONG REVIEW: Sweet Lips (Monaco)

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My favorite track on Music for Pleasure.  One of my primary gripes with MFP was that it seemed as if Pottsy and Hooky were trying a little too hard to emulate the sounds of Oasis and their like on many of tracks.  On Sweet Lips however, the other other two go flat-out disco.  The unabashed kitsch rife throughout the whole track- chiming orchestral synths, popping bassline, Wah-wah'ed up guitar squeals, strained falsetto sing-along chorus, and house-y female vocal samples in the beginning- all harken back to the era when dance music was bouncy, non-threatening fluff.

Hooky sounds like a decadent death disco overseer in the verses.

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"Tell it to your sister . . . "

Also my favourite on MFP (followed by Junk & WDUWFM)

My kids love it too & its a lot of fun listening to 6&7 year old girls trying to sing-along-a-Hooky:D

(actually they give it a good go:clap:  respect to the kids)

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... and Hooky playing the bassline from NewOrder's "Vicious Circle" ( instr. B-Side of RuinedInADay-Single)! :skeptic:

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Vicious Circle Jerk?

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Marco Pleil wrote: ... and Hooky playing the bassline from NewOrder's "Vicious Circle" ( instr. B-Side of RuinedInADay-Single)! :skeptic:

If you can't steal from yourself, who can you steal from?:evil4:

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I love the Joey Negro Main Slice of this track. Very "Good Times by Joey & Norman Jay MBE" feel to it.

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crap disco dance track...never liked it when they went in this direction...sadly enough New Order have tried it again with "Guilt..." and personally it sounds too throw-away pop to me. The SPice girls could have done the same.

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Jahn wrote: I love the Joey Negro Main Slice of this track.

I liked that mix too. Never came out here in The States, but there was a US promo 12" for it and I have the remix on there. My all time favorite Monaco track!

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I like this track. Very catchy and a stomper. A fun song overall. I don't, however, remember the mixes being anything special. I'll have to relisten to them but weren't they all nothing reminiscent of the original? I remember one of them being really poor.

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Woah... I'm surprised here...

This is my least favorite track on Monaco's first album... cheesy disco, I'm quite surprised some people actually like it!

I guess I'm one of the few who prefer a track like Happy Jack to this...

To me, this is the "Jetstream" of MFP ;)

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It's alright, I remember rushing out to get the cassette single, whatever happened to them? :lol:

Isnae half as good as WDYWFM though.

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Shug wrote: It's alright, I remember rushing out to get the cassette single, whatever happened to them? :lol:

Isnae half as good as WDYWFM though.

WDYWFM was better, but this was nearly as good, should have inflicted more damage on the charts...

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might've done if it wasn't for that god awfull totp's performance with hooky only on a big screen behind them,never liked it myself,sounded to gay disco for my ears:D

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