Pick of the Week: Under Control - Good Shoes

I want to give a hearty thanks to Good Shoes for releasing the first single of 2010 meant to embarrass me. For the London based quartet, “Under Control” is just another tight and riff heavy post-punk jam that’s insanely catchy. It also happens to be about sex. The melody is so in-your-ears delicious that you’ll be forced to sing it wherever you are and it doesn’t discriminate based on age or sex or appropriateness of lyrical content.

Imagine for a moment that you are me and you’re sitting at work. Maybe you start by lightly humming the song. It may be annoying to the others in the office, but it’s still well within the realm of decency. But then imagine that you begin mouthing the words like “We’re side by side/with her legs between mine.” Perhaps a little unsettling, but so far security doesn’t have a need to remove you from the property.  Then imagine that you start really feeling the song and without realizing it you’re full on American Idol-ing lyrics like “Lips on lips/Meet salty skin/And her muscles tense/As I tighten my grip.” When you snap back to reality, you realize you might have a sexual harrassment suit on your hands and it’s all thanks to the fine young gentlemen in Good Shoes.

And the video, which I linked to above but will do again here, is a perfect and hilarious fit to the song which should be viewed immediately. Unless you’re at work and they have a policy against women weightlifters in bikinis.

-DJ Bears!