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I hate that I keep skipping good music videos because they don't use the full version of the song...

174. Hot Chip Over and Over (2006)
from the album The Warning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6GDggWPMQk

Key lyrics:
Like a monkey with a miniature symbol
The joy of repetition really is in you

Hot Chips Over and Over is an ode to the repetition that makes most dance music work, first casting itself among them before carving its own chaotic path. Its not that Over and Over goes off the rails. Rather, it achieves a level of extravagance by using its basic structure as a launching point. The Kissing Sexing segment brings the song to a stomping halt, which explodes into a stunning guitar solo ramping the song up to an aggressive level. There are distinct segments, yet they flow so perfectly together.

Getting that chaotic breakdown to work first requires luring the listener in, and Over and Over starts as a bona fide mid-2000s indietronica jam. Hot Chip is essentially LCD Soundsystems more dance-oriented British cousin, similar but satisfying a different itch. The complexity is not in their lyrics but strewn across the instrumentation, stray details and small hooks making brief appearances to keep things exciting. The Kissing Sexing segment hits like a brick, Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddards typically beautiful vocals reduced to a robotic chant. More, each word they spell has one less letter, leaving an additional empty beat between each line that feels just off in the best way. This is a song that subverts itself over and over, an addictive experience simply asking you to have fun with it.

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