WHAT'S THAT COMING OVER THE HILL? IS IT A MOSNTER?!?!?! IS IT A MONSTER?!?!?!

[Cactus Drags]

I'm addicted to this song, I hope the album's going to be this good. Anyone heard of the Automatic before? And are they any good or have they just struck it lucky with this track?

[Benji]

It's an ice cream truck! Yay Mr Whippy!

[TheArsenal]

Oh!! I can't choose without the pictures!

[probablyoliver]

So what song is this? I'm yet to hear it, I'm kind of out of sync with real life right now...

[Dingle]

I'm in the same boat as Ollie.

Is the topic title the song title?

[John Stones' Paint Trophy]

It's just called 'Monster' but the chorus is the topic title repeated over and over and it's so catchy.

The Automatic are awesome though. They've also released 'Raoul' and 'Recover' so you may have heard one of those.

[Colly]

I preferred Raoul, but its alright. Before I knew the title I was convinced it said boxcar and not monster though.

[Scott McFly]

Wow, surprised to see a mention for this song on here! Yeah, it's a great song, possibly my favourite at the moment. Gonna hold off buying the single to pick up the album as I bloody love Raoul too and may as well just get the whole thing. Only heard Recover once or twice, and I can't remember if it was good or not.

But, yeah, in conclusion - great song. IS IT A MONSTER?!

[Cactus Drags]

http://www.myspace.com/theautomatic if you haven't heard it. Yeah, it's jsut called Monster, the other tracks on their site are pretty cool too.

[Numbahs]

That was great. It's 3 in the morning and my room door is open when I'm listening to the song....and my roommate yells from his room, "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!? IT'S SCARING ME!"

Ahhh, good times.

[probablyoliver]

Heard it this morning whilst I was eating my coco-pops. Was somewhat catchy, wouldn't be surprised to see The Automatic go the same route as Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand, going straight to the top of the indie hitlist.

[AJ]

The Automatic were in the live lounge on Jo Whiley's show today on Radio 1.

They played Monster live, and also a cover of Kanye West's Gold Digger, which was absolutely genius (and involved a flute and a kazoo). They discussed all the different suggestions people had had for what was coming over the hill. Popular choices included 'Your Mother' and 'A Badger'.

If you go to the Radio 1 website and find Jo Whiley's show, you can listen again. They were on not long after the second hour mark.

[Guest muddatrucker]

They're performing at our Summer Ball apparently.

[Cactus Drags]

AJ, thanks for the heads-up on the Jo Whiley show. Does anyone know how I can record it to my computer?

[MDK]

The song is awful and MTV2 have a massive hard-on for it.

[Dingle]

I think the song is alright after a few listens and it's grown on me already. I knew it wasn't officially badger

Silly Dragsy

[Liam]

The Automatic were in the live lounge on Jo Whiley's show today on Radio 1.

I listened to it in the car, and didn't like the song.

Then I downloaded it and dug it.

Guess it is a grower.

[Scott McFly]

Incidentally I recommend the U-Myx version of the song. Don't think many people know what it is, but basically allows you to remix the song, albeit in a limited way. There's a free demo over at the site:

http://www.u-myx.com/

Also one for The Upper Room I think, but that song gets on my tits, so I can't actually recommend that one.

[YI]

Not really into the song. But the video is excellent. More campy videos are needed.

[triplexpac]

That's one catchy song. Is the EWB gmail music account still around?