Number 34'Live It Out' by Metric
Trotter’s Top Ten position : 3 in 2006
UK Chart high : Did not chart in 2006
Firstly, a couple of points to be made for the statistically-minded (well, you are reading a countdown after all). This is only one of two albums from 2006 to make the Final Fifty - the other being fairly obvious and coming up much later and secondly, this is the first album listed here to not even have made the UK Top 100. I mean, think about that for a second - the damn-fool public didn't even buy enough of this record in any one week to get it to 100 - a travesty! We've established then, that Metric are criminally under-rated. All the more surprising considering they are fronted by one of the most glamourous, cool and edgy frontwomen in the business in Emily Haines and can start a song with 'bam chikka bam, chikka boom boom boom, shalang shalang boom, shalang shalang boom' and THEN call it 'Monster Hospital' or have a line about 'fear of comparison shopping' on the expertly-titled 'Patriarch on a Vespa'. 'Live It Out' is a strange, sinister yet catchy affair straddling the mosh-pit and the keyboards and is made all the better by their inventive, twisted videos. Even getting spat at in the face by a charming young lady when I saw them live couldn't stop them from getting this far up the decade review!
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