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Never Miss A Beat

September 17, 2008 | 21 Comments
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The Kaisers’ keen eye for social commentary always throws up a couple of truisms. Unfortunately, they tend to be truisms along the lines of ‘the grass is green’: you can’t fault them factually, but they’ve got the depth and thought of a puddle. We presume this song is about the dumbing down of modern society. ‘Never Miss A Beat’ is sadly symptomatic of it.

Barry Nicolson

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Grimbo

Sep 19, 2008

how far have this band fallen? employment was a fine debut album, but everything since has got blander and blander.

lex31

Sep 22, 2008

i've never particularly liked the kaiser chiefs. Employment was incredibly overrated and Your's Truly.. was just plain terrible and somewhere along the line they still thought that they were the best and original band in Britain - going on about how they were the band "knock Oasis off the mantle" (then bottling out of a chart war with them) and how "everything is average nowadays" talk about pot kettle!! however I actually quite like this song, don't get me wrong it's not amazing but it's got catchy hooks and it's better than crap like "Ruby" and "Everything is average nowadays"

vonman

Sep 22, 2008

Yep, same old. They've certainly missed the beat on this one.

-billy-shears-

Sep 22, 2008

Catchy but Average

Soundedd

Sep 22, 2008

One of my favourite bands, I like the new single a lot. Is it just me though or does the riff sound like The Enemy's "Had Enough", Be Careful Mr Wilson, can't wait for the album though.

outtathaway67

Sep 23, 2008

I'm not a huge Kasier Chiefs fan by any means but I sure like this! Can't get enough of it actually.

milo2020

Sep 23, 2008

A pretty good rule of thumb is that if Chris Moyles gets behind something it's a bag of cack and he LOVES kaiser chiefs. case closed.

Soundedd

Sep 23, 2008

Chris Moyles = LegendKaiser Chiefs = LegendsCase Closed ;)

courtz005

Sep 24, 2008

The new song is good, but not brilliant, I think it is very dodgy in some cases as the lyrics are dreadful, eg 'What do you want for tea? I want crisps' really rubbish lyric writing skills for their time in their career

binhawk

Sep 24, 2008

Wow!!! What an absouletly terrible song. we can all immitate a Kasier Chuffs song. Include a lot of nanananas, aaaahhhss, oooohhhs, bouncey keyboards, off beat drums, repeating of words, Irrirtatingly poor lyrics, etc. They could actually be geniuses though. Churning out absolute dross on purpose so that people like 'Soundedd' buy it and they make loads of money. Damn I'm jealous of there crapness....

adno11

Sep 25, 2008

Poor lyrics, poor music catchy chorus. Hey it's just like all there other songs, how long will they get away with this?

Humpher

Sep 28, 2008

Didn't think much of it the first play but it's catchy and really growing on me. Like the Clockwork Orange style video.

WeeHacky

Sep 29, 2008

good song, but gets boring.

clavin99

Oct 1, 2008

It is catchy, however people with a brain will see through that and realise what complete shit the Kaiser Chiefs have lowered themselves to.

mofoingsnakes

Oct 1, 2008

Heard it on Jools last night, poor Clash rip-off. They're becoming a pale imitation of themselves.

o White Widow o

Oct 1, 2008

Overrated band,go away.

I.Love.Music.Meh

Oct 1, 2008

Oh they're down with the kids arn't they- ''what do you want for tea? I want crisps.''& ''Why didn't you go to school? I don't know.''Lovely lyrics, very meaningfull. NOT.I give it 2.5/5

its_rudimentary

Oct 2, 2008

Chris Moyles is a d*ck

Yashverve

Oct 9, 2008

I hope their next single to be released is "Spanish Guitar" which is the first song of the new album. Its kinda Beatlesque (Caroline,Yes!) to me.

04bootd

Oct 20, 2008

Spanish Metal actually.Btw this song is the best single EVER, best song by the Kaisers EVER and all those people who think the Kaisers are overrated (what?) need to open their ears. The lyrics? They're fucking amazing as well!

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