KEVIN MCCALLUM: True drama of Nassau County lost to those watching on TV
The Heinrich Manoeuvre didn’t quite get to the top 100 on the Billboard chart in 2007. The song, by US band Interpol, reached 18 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, the Championship league of music for those singles who might just get promoted to the Premier League.
It did get to 31 in the UK, which is a decent nudge. Hardly Taylor Swift, but, then again, who is? Billboard described it as a “a peppy kiss-off to an ex-love now residing on the opposite coast”. Pitchfork reviewed it as a relying “more on a guitar riff than the band’s killer rhythm section” and the “lyrics are, atypically, not cringeworthy (though ‘you wear those shoes like a dove’ certainly walks that line).” ..
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