Over drinks with my friend Mitch the other day, we started talking about hooks, those little beats and melodies that just get in your ear and under your skin and won't let you go. There are so many types of hooks, here are some of my favorites.
-Animal Collective's repetitive yelping of "holiday" in Kids On Holiday
-Brian Eno "I'll come running to tie your shoes" on Another Green World
-Buzzcocks "ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn'a fallen in love with"
-Cornelius "Point! left, right, up"
-Fennesz, the whole Endless Summer track sounds like one big late 20th century glitchy hook to me
-Geez 'n Gosh "Calling Jesus!"
-Hypo, Random Veneziano is just a big orgasmic hook, one after the other
-Lou Reed "bahm bahm bahm (<--bowie in falsetto), satellite of love, bahm bahm bahm, satellite of love"
-Michael Jackson "Billie Jean is not my lover!" (the Thriller album is such genius, if people don't get it, it's just their loss)
-Momus "I want you and I want you to want me to want you, but I don't need you" etc. This is my favorite Momus track, this line just works as a great hook, even if it's a bit unwieldy. It sounds like Leonard Cohen if he were a few degrees more misanthropic.
-Tuxedomoon "No tears for the creatures of the night, no tears"