I was thinking about this yesterday. I was watching
this. This would be a fucking
incredible song if you removed the archtecture - by this I mean, if you took out the strumming guitar, and left the classy vocal line drifting over the droning Martenots [?] you'd have a truly amazing song. As it is, they leave in the bits that make it obviously a song, becuase they have commercial concerns. I think a lot of the time, underneath all the faff, bands don't have any songs. But then, sometimes, a band can make do with a vocal line.
I'll tell you what I'm growing to hate - rhythm sections that keep time. Drums are for making a fuck off loud sound, get a drum machine if you need to keep time.