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Two Minutes Hate: Kaiser Chiefs

31st October 2005
JS

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Sorry to go against general consensus, but really, why the hell does anybody like them? Seems like everybody’s fallen for the NME’s hype again and bought a pretty awful record that they’ll be ashamed of in a few months. In the past, the music press compared rubbish bands like Kula Shaker and Echobelly to great bands like Blur and Pulp. People should have learnt from their mistakes. So what’s my problem, I hear you cry? Too straight-faced to enjoy a band who are as clearly hilarious as ‘The Kaisers’? It’s the fact that they’re just so trivial. Who are the people we’ll really remember in ten years time? Will it be the Smashmouths and Kaiser Chiefs? Or will it be the Radioheads and Nirvanas?

I hate the complete inanity of their lyrics, which are somewhat below the level of Maxwell from Big Brother, plus of course the completely pedestrian and repetitive nature of just about all of their songs. Why does every song on their album has to have a bit where they all go "woooOOOAAAHHH!!!!" before the last chorus? What also annoys me is the implication that just because they play guitars it makes them more worthwhile or meaningful than say, Girls Aloud or Boyzone, which I’m afraid in this case just isn’t true. So do the right thing, and get rid of that album (which let’s admit it only had about 4 good songs on it) before it takes its place at the back of the cupboard next to those copies of ‘Twentysomething’ and ‘Call Off The Search’.