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'This Ain't A Scene' reached No. 2 in the UK charts in February 2007... It is the first single from the Chicago band's long-awaited album Infinity On High, the follow-up to From Under The Cork Tree which sold over 3 million copies worldwide.. The band are looking forward to a sell-out UK tour in April and main stage performances at Reading and Leeds festivals in the summer.I don't care what it says on the cover, they're blatantly singing "arseface" on the chorus. It doesn't even sound like "arms race," there's no "m" sound in it. And while we're on the subject of swearing, it's worth noting that this album includes the original uncensored version of the track with the word "goddamn" in it, rather than the clean version more often heard in the US and used in the video.
Whilst I recognise that there are obviously several levels of irony involved in this record, fundamentally they were a band whom I found deeply annoying during their brief period of UK fame. They didn't seem able to do anything without burying it under in-jokes and gimmicks and whilst I can put up with a certain amount of that sort of thing when the music's appealing, they were rarely more than average and this track is a case in point, mildly catchy but torpedoed by its own smugness.
Also appearing on: Now 63, 64, 67
Available on: Infinity On High [UK Version]
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