Robbie Willams "Bodies"

As Charlie Brooker said recently, "Angels is played at funerals, Bodies will not".

We thought this song would "grow" on us. We wanted it too, but it hasn't, it just gets on our nerves, because it's clearly two songs cut 'n' shut together.

You've got the Rudebox style Robbie nonsense in the verses, and the classic Guy Chambers style Robbie in the chorus. Two completely different songs have been mashed together - this is a technique that super-producers Xenomania admit to doing (and very well) - listen to the way "Bodies" connects them, like a corpse falling down the morge stairs from verse to the chorus - the lyrics meaning anything seemingly unimportant;

Verse:
Bodies in the bodhi tree
Bodies making chemistry
Bodies are my family
Bodies in the way of me
Bodies in the cemetery
And that's the way it's gonna be all we've ever wanted
Is to look good naked
Hope that someone can take it
God save me rejection
From my reflection
I want perfection

You might have missed it, so here it is again (1:06 on the video below)
"And that's the way it's gonna be BANG BANG CLUMP CLUMP CRASH STUMBLE all we've ever wanted" What the hell are you talking about? Was the Bodies in the bodhi (?) tree, bodies making chemistry bit the original chorus for this song, before it a new one was slipped in afterwards?

The new chorus sounds like its from a great song, it's a shame we won't get to hear the rest of it.