I think so. I don't think the term is only used to describe situations where improvisation is going on.
― timellison, Sunday, 23 November 2014 05:00 (nine years ago) link
The chorus is "No-no no-no / No place I'd rather be"
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:13 (nine years ago) link
The rest of this album has faded but Rather Be sounds better than ever.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 24 November 2014 11:44 (nine years ago) link
I played out a remix of this on Friday night as the last song of the evening and it was joyous.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link
I don't really get the 'boringly pleasant' tag it's been given. There are so many different hooks, and as is alluded to above, it's hard to tell which bit is the chorus. I also like the casual cheesiness of 'with every step we take/Kyoto to Dubai'. And the way the little 'dadalada-da-dah / dadalada-da-dah dah' vamp gets passed on from instrument to instrument. And that missed snare. And the way it drops out and comes back in with 'yeah-e-yeah-e-YEAH-E-YEAH-E YEAH YEAH!'. I like it all really.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:57 (nine years ago) link
oh and the almost-clumsiness of those club-marimbas on some of the phrases where they sound like a fumble, but it's def on purpose.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:59 (nine years ago) link
and the italo-house pianos and how they land and mimic the rhythmic pattern of 'it's a shot in the dark but I'll MAKE. IT.'
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
Can we go back to the "Chris Martin soundalike vocal"
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 13:06 (nine years ago) link
aka 90% of British chart pop in the last 10 years
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
you made me laugh, cortana!
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Monday, 9 March 2015 09:41 (nine years ago) link
went to school with two of these absolute dullards, i have latterly realised. one of them was so indistinct i didn't even know him, and i made a point of knowing who everyone was
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Monday, 9 March 2015 09:42 (nine years ago) link
That advert really makes me want to punch them all, hard.
― emil.y, Monday, 9 March 2015 11:20 (nine years ago) link
clean bandit sounds like some sort of no-brand cillit bang
― we reward the hake (NickB), Monday, 9 March 2015 11:29 (nine years ago) link
we're far enough from the EOYs to say with some impunity that everyone who voted for them is a literal disgrace
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Monday, 9 March 2015 11:43 (nine years ago) link
Don't give a hoot who they are or where they come from. Rather Be's still a jam.
― nuumerykah (dog latin), Monday, 9 March 2015 11:56 (nine years ago) link
Agree 100%, even hearing it on the radio every day for the best part of a year hasn't killed it.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 9 March 2015 12:24 (nine years ago) link
I'm glad people get so much joy from it, cannot fucking stand it personally.
― Paul Johnson asks: Do homosexuals like John Major (Tom D.), Monday, 9 March 2015 12:29 (nine years ago) link
Their non-"Rather Be" tracks are terrible.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Monday, 9 March 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
"Their non-"Rather Be" tracks are terrible."
this is true =\
and the "rather be" video is horsewaste, too. still was the best thing all over radio last year
― soyrev, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 01:44 (nine years ago) link
enjoyed the first 5 seconds of water before the music started
― saer, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
seeing the advert they feature in is the closest i've come to putting a boot through my tv since david cameron was announced as uk prime minister.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link