How perfect, then, that its manic, wild-eyed chorus has grown into a cruel joke over the years, a soundtrack that still tricks barflies into missing the point at every indie disco from Land's End to John o'Groats.
The song starts out with Mr. Coombes crooning, accompanied only by guitar and strings, erupts into a churning, manic R-and-B chorus, then morphs into a lush Philadelphia soul-style ballad.
The music is suddenly exuberant and crazed, with spiraling riffs and cyclic instrumental figures, and manic bursts of syllables and sputtering from the chorus.
Ghostface delivers manic rhymes about drug dealing, then switches to an absurd falsetto for the chorus: "Don't be stupid/ Don't make me use it/ 'Cause you can't sell here anymore".
The chorus was on stage throughout, laying supportive hands on Alun Armstrong's manic Sweeney as if he were a mythic hero.
The chorus had learned two of Pink's new songs: "Jell-o," a manic jingle inspired by the dessert, and "Picture Me Gone," a ballad lamenting the loss of physical photo albums.
You can see it in the chorus of mermaids whose upside-down faces crowd almost all the text off the page; or the manic sea monkeys who come bouncing out of seaweed, anarchically disrupting the story's flow.
You can see it in the chorus of mermaids whose upside-down faces crowd almost all the text off the page; or the manic sea monkeys who come bouncing out of seaweed, anarchically disrupting the story's flow.
as being a manic-depressive, manic type.
