The Best Mousse-Shilling Song You’ll Hear All Day
As it turns out, the song’s “No Sleep Tonight” by the now-defunct UK trio The Faders, not to be confused with the Levi’s-hoarding magazine of the same name. “No Sleep Tonight” was a modest hit on the UK singles chart when it came out in 2005, and it’s apparently been used as a backing track on a lot of other ads and TV shows that I don’t watch and an episode of Veronica Mars that I guess I missed back when it first aired. Anyway, this song is a lot of fun, and it’s doing quite a nice job of making me forget all about that Black Kids song I listened to this morning. (Really, Best New Music? For that? Is rewriting Madness’ “Our House” and slapping “sloppy” indie-rock vocals on it what passes for “impressive” in the blog-rock hothouse these days?)
The faders- No Sleep Tonight [YouTube]
* Still completely worthy of an around-the-home-office dance party!