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'What Do You Want From Me?' is Monaco's debut single... They are the legendary former Joy Division/ New Order bassist Peter Hook and singer David Potts and they make a right good racket too!Of course, both Hook and Potts had also been members of the less-celebrated Revenge, and if we want to be picky about this, New Order officially still existed in 1997, although they were effectively silent in the second half of the decade. Some have even gone so far as to suggest that the success of Monaco (admittedly this is one of two Top 40 hits, but that's two more than Revenge ever had) was due to this lack of new New Order material at the time.
Certainly - and unsurprisingly - the instrumental of this track does sound very like the parent act, especially but not only because of Peter Hooks' typical high-lying bass part, but the finished article is slightly different. Hook's lead vocal on the verses suggests why he wasn't the lead singer in New Order, whilst Potts' sha-la-la backing vocals give it something of a flavour of the janglier side of Britpop, laid on top of the post-punk-dance foundation. It probably shouldn't work but for most of the running time of this song it does. It's not flawless; the drum programming is less imaginative than on some of the tracks earlier in this disc and they seem to have been undecided about whether to use a piano solo, a guitar solo or a synth-string solo. But this is a good enjoyable track that deserves to be remembered more than it is.
Available on: True 90s (3 CD Set)
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