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Justice took one of my ten favorite singles of 2008 so far (no, that was not an April Fools joke, I love “Boots,” don’t lose all respect for me please), and made it into something completely new, original, different, and awesome.
Rather than taking “Boots” and turning it into a club-banger, Justice instead chose to change the song’s dynamic, adding soulful piano, horns, and looped Bono. So now, instead of being an awkward-groovy-rock-Radiohead imitation by Bono and company, “Get On Your Boots” is a funkadelic, toe-tapping, head-bopping show-stopper.
Part of what makes this remix so great is its unpredictability. The song starts out with the exact guitar hook from “Boots,” this time with a fuzzed-out synthy vibe to it. You think this will be a by-the-numbers remix. But sure enough, the melody we are used to fades away, and gives way to jazzy pianos and sped-up Bono jib-jab. Perhaps Bono will keep flipping through his ridiculous rhymes at full-speed for the rest of the remix? Wrong again. The song slows down and finds it’s groove, with horns driving a looped verse of the chorus. “Sexy boots- sexy boots! Get on your boots- yeah.”
And at 2:44, the song just becomes pretty much amazing, with Bono crooning the same looped verse over just the soulful, bluesy piano keys. Without a doubt, one of the year’s best remixes.
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via Stereogum. Thanks for the tip Keso
Tags: Favorite New Songs, Justice, U2
good job stealing stereogum’s premiere and artwork and not crediting them
As this is obviously a recording of stereogums i’d redo it as you’ve set the recording volume too high. And give them some credit.
use a browser that lets you download/rehost the file, or just look at the page source & get a url… then you’ll avoid all that horrid distortion & could stream it with a flash player, err, just like stereogum did.
Don’t go hard on Luis, I sent it to him and when I got it, I didn’t know it was from Stereogum. It may be that the one I got the mp3 from this time got it from there, and then I’m sorry. So blame me and not Luis for looking it up before. Okey guys?
If it really is from Stereogum (which I can see now), then all credit goes to Sterogum here: http://stereogum.com/archives/justice-u2-remix-mp3_062471.html
Sorry, didn’t know until I read the comments here. I got it first from http://www.electrocasts.net/2335/new-justice-remix/ and then a higher kbit-rate from a buddy of mine.
You are all so right. This post was done is such haste — and all through emails — that I complete forgot to check sources. Credit has been given where it is due.
I actually like Boots, and this is amazing! Better than crookers, totally. Thanks, and I don`t really care much about credits, do we need to fight over them? Go steriogum, whatever.
I actually like Boots, and this is amazing! Better than crookers, totally. Thanks, and I don`t really care much about credits, do we need to fight over them? Go steriogum, whatever.
PS: Forgot to mention good post!