Line #74 Music/KaiserChiefs


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:L-R: Nick Hodgson, Andrew "Whitey" White, Ricky Wilson, Nick "Peanut" Baines, Simon Rix.]]
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4	->''"Take a look, take a look, take a look\
5	At the kids on the street, no, they never miss a beat\
6	No, they never miss a beat, never miss a beat\
7	Never miss a beat, beat, beat, beat"''
8	-->-- "Never Miss a Beat"
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10	Kaiser Chiefs are an indie rock band from Leeds, England, formed in 1996 as Runston Parva, then changed to just Parva; however, after their record deal fell apart with a single album due to the label's closure, they decided to start from scratch and rechristened themselves with their current name, with which they would achieve international success. Their current name comes from Kaizer Chiefs, a football team from Johannesburg (South Africa), in which one of Leeds United's all-time famous players, Lucas Radebe, started his career.
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12	Their sound draws much inspiration from [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]] and post-punk, while adding touches of other styles of rock along the way.
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14	The band is comprised of: Ricky Wilson (vocals; not the one from Music/TheB52s FakingTheDead), Andrew "Whitey" White (guitar), Simon Rix (bass), Vijay Mistry (drums, replacing founding member Nick Hodgson) and Nick "Peanut" Baines (keyboard).
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16	Singer Ricky Wilson joined the third season of ''Series/TheVoice UK'' as a coach.
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19	!! Discography:
20	* ''22'' (2003, as Parva)
21	* ''Employment'' (2005)
22	* ''Yours Truly, Angry Mob'' (2007)
23	* ''Off With Their Heads'' (2008)
24	* ''The Future is Medieval'' (2011)
25	** ''Start the Revolution Without Me'' (USA re-release, 2012)
26	* ''Education, Education, Education & War'' (2014)
27	* ''Stay Together'' (2016)
28	* ''Duck'' (2019)
29	* ''Kaiser Chiefs' Easy Eighth Album'' (2024)
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31	!! Yours Truly, Angry Tropes:
32	* AlbumTitleDrop:
33	** The title of ''Off With Their Heads'' shows up in "Like It Too Much".
34	** ''The Future is Medieval'' has its title repeated in the outro of "Child of the Jago".
35	** The US release ''Start the Revolution Without Me'' gets its title from "Cousin in the Bronx", although the song uses "''a'' revolution" rather than "''the'' revolution".
36	** "Cannons" from ''Education, Education, Education & War'' comes close, with only two instances of "education" instead of three.
37	** ''Yours Truly, Angry Mob'' and ''Stay Together'' each have a derived TitleTrack ("The Angry Mob" and "We Stay Together" respectively).
38	* AWildRapperAppears: British rapper Sway does a verse of "Half the Truth".
39	* BigOMG: The song "Oh My God", naturally.
40	* BreakUpSong: "Everyday I Love You Less and Less".
41	* EvilLaugh: The chorus of "Misery Company".
42	* FaceOnTheCover: ''Yours Truly, Angry Mob'' features the band in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome monochrome]].
43	* InconsistentSpelling: Both the first and the current name fall under this: Runston Parva has an N in the middle of the first name to differentiate itself from Ruston Parva, a hamlet near Leeds, while the "Kaiser" in Kaiser Chiefs is written with an S to differentiate from the football team they took the name from (which is spelled "Kaizer", with a Z).
44	* {{Instrumentals}}: "Howlaround" from ''The Future is Medieval''.
45	* LongRunnerLineUp: The band remained stable from 1996 until Hodgson's departure in 2012.
46	* MarketBasedTitle: ''The Future is Medieval'' was released in America with the title ''Start the Revolution Without Me''.
47	* NewSoundAlbum: ''Stay Together'' was the band making their foray into electropop in the style of bands like Music/CutCopy and Music/TwoDoorCinemaClub.
48	* OneSteveLimit: Nick Baines and Nick Hodgson; the latter quit the band in 2012 and was replaced by Vijay Mistry the following year.
49	* OneWomanSong: "Ruby".
50	* OopNorth: They come from Leeds.
51	* PrecisionFStrike: "Record Collection":
52	-->From the tip of a rhino, fuck it if I know
53	* SexIsGood: "Good Clean Fun", in which the narrator claims that "sex makes everything better".
54	* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: "You Can Have It All", except it's not quite a denial:
55	-->I tell you what it's going to be like\
56	No, you can never hold my hand in public\
57	They can't know or understand\
58	That you and me are now together
59	* ShoutOut:
60	** "Caroline, Yes" is a reference to the song "[[Music/PetSounds Caroline, No]]" by Music/TheBeachBoys.
61	** "Addicted to Drugs" is a direct reference to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love", right down to having the exact same chorus line (albeit substituting "love" with "drugs").
62	** "Child of the Jago" takes its name from an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison.
63	** The first three words of ''Education, Education, Education & War'' originate from a speech made in 1996 by UsefulNotes/TonyBlair. The "& War" was added as a TakeThat to his participation in UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror.
64	** The video for "People Know How to Love One Another" shows the band riding in a van similar to the [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Mystery Machine]], emblazoned with the Rose of York.
65	** "Kurt vs. Frasier (The Battle for Seattle)" is a tribute to Music/KurtCobain and [[Series/{{Frasier}} Frasier Crane]], two icons of UsefulNotes/TheNineties who lived in UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}.
66	* SpecialGuest: Music/LilyAllen provides backing vocals on "Never Miss a Beat" and "Always Happens Like That". New Young Pony Club also appear on the former track.
67	* SpokenWordInMusic: Creator/BillNighy recites a war poem at the end of "Cannons".
68	* StageNames: Peanut (Nick Baines) and Whitey (Andrew White).
69	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Nick Hodgson sings lead vocals on "Boxing Champ", "Remember You're a Girl", "Man on Mars" and "If You Will Have Me".
70	* TitleOnlyChorus: "I Predict a Riot".
71	* TruckDriversGearChange: "Everything is Average Nowadays".
72	* VisualInnuendo: The music video for "People Know How to Love One Another" is filled with sexual imagery, including a pencil entering a pencil sharpener and an [[UsefulNotes/{{Emojis}} aubergine (eggplant) kissing a peach]].
73	* WarIsHell: A major theme of ''Education, Education, Education & War''.
74	* WretchedHive: The city depicted in "I Predict a Riot", which may or may not really be Leeds, depending on who you ask. (Worth noting, though, that the first verse refers to someone named Smeaton as "an old Leodensian" -- i.e. a person from Leeds.)

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