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u/Echelon1337 4d ago
The new one Higher Ground tbh, that high pitched 'spread the love around' just comes across too on the nose and a little cringe
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u/ChuckChuckChuck_ 3d ago
I don't mind that part, I'm just really sad they've stopped writing proper bridges :( once you heard the intro, first verse and chorus, you've heard the whole song
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u/Hour_Brave 7h ago
I feel like it reminds me of the powerpuff girls song when the town was all black and white and they had to make it colorful again. 🫣 i can t stop thinking about this
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u/ChuckChuckChuck_ 3d ago
Hahhaha, reading through these comments out of context sounds like we all actually low key dislike most of what Shikari have done haha
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u/Actual_Big_Jake 4d ago
Honorable mention to the crowd chanting "of science!" On myopia. That part just sounds super corny to me but the rest of the song is top tier
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u/MDevonL apøcoholic 4d ago
Just gonna say the Big Narstie part of supercharge so we can all get that out of the way
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u/penguin62 Just a fucking goldfish 3d ago
Fuck that, I love that verse
"How can you separate the cunt from the body, you can't, you have to separate the cunt from the mind"
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u/EnvironmentalEar3098 4d ago
Most rap artists I like have a feature in the middle of the song that totally kills the song. For example Rockstar by Post Malone
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u/Musical-Dev 4d ago
Genuinely think you might have picked the only one with a bad section 😅 If I like a Shikari song, I usually like the entire thing
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u/Dunnohye 3d ago
Not a song per se but I really disliked the collab with Sam Ryder for satellites in 2024
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u/penguin62 Just a fucking goldfish 3d ago
Yeah, idk if Sam was just having an off-night, but he's all over the place in that show.
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u/smolbabypanda 3d ago
Was my first time hearing it live since coming out as a trans man I was lowkey so mad 😂
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u/Alexis_doodles 3d ago edited 3d ago
As much as the song means to me, especially the second half, An Ode To Lost Jigsaw Pieces has the line:
“I miss them like the majority of modern mainstream music misses an original metaphor for missing someone”.
I don’t know, it feels clunky, too lengthy and too on the nose compared to Rou’s usual writing.
Another is Deadwood; i adore the beginning, but i feel it falls off in the latter half, with the repeated “I want to feel the way you feel”.
and finally would be Radiate, which is just too damn long imo. could’ve easily been cut down by one chorus at least.
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u/ChesterKiwi 3d ago
I've always considered being on the nose as a trademark of his lyricism. It's part of the charm for me.
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u/dr3wtube 3d ago
The breakdown in Arguing with Thermometers has the weakest drums I’ve heard from this band. “WE’LL TAKE YOU DOWN” bongos
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u/oktimeforplanz 3d ago
The first time I heard Arguing with Thermometers, it was when they played it live before the album release and it was INTENSE. So imagine the letdown when the album came out...
I know they play around with songs live, so I knew it wasn't going to sound exactly like the live version, but it did throw me off...
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u/dr3wtube 3d ago
Flash Flood has a load of very odd production choices in an otherwise banger of an album.
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u/matrixrory 2d ago
Oh man I'm not built for this thread. So many mentions of my favourite parts but I have to respect all of your opinions
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u/adampayne 2d ago
“Wish I was back at the Dreamer’s Hotel” in Jailbreak. In fact, all of the song title references throughout AKFTWW feel incredibly clunky and shoehorned in.
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u/neoPie 3d ago
Just a few very specific nitpics. Idk why but in Live outside it always bothered me that Rou says "I keep taming, keep training, keep taming the Horse", I'd find it better if it was "this horse" instead. Maybe bcs that would make it more clear that it's a metaphorical horse?
The "I want to see your body"-line from undercover agents
And lastly in Leap into the Lightning (which I otherwise really like) the rubbery soundeffect that comes right at the beginning and after the chorus, I don't know how its called, but it always throws me off
Oh and while we're added: The Autotune in Bloodshot.
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u/rmhutchings96 3d ago
I love …Meltdown but cannot abide the part of System… where Rou does the “when I was little, I dressed up as a…’ section. For some reason it cringes me out even though it completely sets up the song’s wider themes
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u/duck-shovel 3d ago
It always bothered me in The Sights, Rou says "yeah, my head's a bit stir-fried"
I get what he means, but that attempted colloquialism just doesn't land for me
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u/JoPa1887 3d ago
The Part after the Fafare and the first „this kiss for the whole world“ at the beginning
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u/EmLahLady 3d ago
Not a dislike per se but everytime I listen goldfish I hear: "you are the goldfish I am the bowl, you're swimming in circles I AM A TURTLE"
And I want so bad for it to be the line. Or the crowd to shout it instead. Its almost more suited to first picture, FIRST PICTURE x2
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u/cocamola 2d ago
The “ I really don’t know man” in Juggernauts in that faux squeaky American accent
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u/Maximumbeans5 2d ago
Not exactly disgust but the guitar solo in Stop the Clocks. I feel like Rory can do more than that, surely.
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u/Bushwacker1404 2d ago
Gonna get absolutely crucified for this but: “tonight! We’re wide awake!’ in Mothership
I have no issue with Rou’s screams being a bit rough round the edges on a debut album, same as the songs themselves. But that one is a hard listen.
Also a few lines in the Lose Your Self album (which I fucking love btw, just some rhymes like ‘isolated/intoxicated’ make me role my eyes a bit. Same in Spaceship Earth II when there’s something about ‘pricks coming home to roost’)
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u/ThvrstnMcSvenn 1d ago
The beginning of The Revolt of the Atoms was amazing.
I remember exactly where I was when I first heard it: I was in a park late at night fitting a bodyweight workout in and spinning The Spark for the first time.
Then the first drum fill came in and the rest of the song slowly deteriorated into fuckassery.
It is the only song in their entire discography that I dislike strongly, and it's because the intro was so promising juxtaposed to the rest of the song which was a massive letdown.
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u/Bread-Zeppelin 3d ago
The high pitch screech at the beginning and end of Radiate. Play it through headphones and it's an ear bleeder every time.
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u/Actual_Big_Jake 4d ago
Its ok Its ok Its ok Its ok
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u/WildAlocasia 3d ago edited 3d ago
I actually really like this chorus, yes it's simple and repetitive but I think it makes the point of the song very well. Activists are repeatedly dismissed and told "there's nothing to worry about" regarding our concern for the fact the world is burning. The dissonance – if that's what it's called – of the 2nd and 4th "it's okay" alludes to the fact that if folk are paying attention to more than simply the words being spoken, they'd be able to see through the bullshit.
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u/biggest_mac11 3d ago
Genuinely the only definite skip of Shikaris catalogue when listening to the albums. I don't get the love for it at all
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u/Clom_Clompson 4d ago
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, in Waltzing off the Face of the Earth (part 1) right before the end of the song when the whole waltzing comes crashing down, there is a broken, squealing horn that comes in like 2 bars before everything else, and I hate it
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u/robertosnow 3d ago
The wub breakdown in pack of theives did not age well at all imo. The rest of the song is a banger but everything after “now change the world” is bad
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u/dr3wtube 3d ago
Yeah bad transition in an otherwise great song. Listening back they really threw every part they could ever think of into every song on Flash Flood.
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u/smolbabypanda 3d ago
The repetition in airfield, I love the beginning love the end but always find myself skipping the middle after the first set of “ so your down on your luck your down”
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u/XenoCraigMorph 3d ago edited 3d ago
The very end of Gap in the Fence when the guitars come in is just pure noise and always requires me to turn down my headphones.
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u/herefornoreason211 4d ago
Honestly, I hate the beginning of the last garrison. soon as we get to the "this is the tragedy" it becomes peak.
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u/Character_Bank4099 3d ago
When they started doing dub remixes of take to the skies tracks, not a fan
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u/Pleasant_Statement64 3d ago edited 3d ago
The ending of we can breathe in space
When angiosco transitions to maestoso
Key change in no sleep tonight
Edit: In case you couldn't tell, I read the thing wrong, I thought it was the typical template where the SpongeBob is for "that one part"
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u/Mr_Bagginses 3d ago
Those are all great haha what the heck
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u/Pleasant_Statement64 3d ago
Wait I dont care about the downvotes but im genuinely curious if Im curious ir if I somehow pissed people off
Edit: I saw the template wrong
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u/Pleasant_Statement64 3d ago
I'd probably say the electronic breakdown in pack of thieves, I dont really care for it
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u/Talpy12 4d ago
Maximizing shareholder value
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u/Clom_Clompson 4d ago
Why that part in particular? The whole song is like that
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u/Jazzlike-Leather-726 3d ago
The music video for TINA.