But I Feel Good

Groove Armada are one of those bands which I'd like to be too much of a snob to love. But alas, Love Box is one of my favorite albums. It has some wailing guitars, crowd pleasing beats, cute british rapping, and it tops it all off with a deliciously upbeat dancehall-lite final track "But I Feel Good"

Other great tracks from Love Box include "groove is on" (life is slow when the groove is on,) "hands of time," "purple haze," (it all made sense until the shrooms and the purple haze), "madder" (great example of how adorable the british are when they rap), and "final shakedown" featuring none other than Mr Red Rat, who is the height of class in Jamaican music.

I do like to think the track "But I Feel Good" has a slight edge to it because of that "but." It's, y'know, this cheerful song about feeling good and feeling high. But "but" what? It's never explained. It sounds to me like everyone was having a great time, only to have the carpet pulled out from under them. Like mum just came home and turned off the music. "Aw, but I feel good, but I feel high." Or maybe it's a comment on the miserable fucking state of the world, life, and existence. The human condition sucks goat balls... but I feel good, but I feel high.

For that, But I Feel Good is my song of the week