It’s Friday, so here’s the video for “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” by the Darkness

Say what you will about this one, but it holds up. Not only that, but it’s probably been long enough since you’ve heard it that won’t sound quite as played out as it did at its peak. That’s like two generations worth of retro, guys!

Watching it now, I can’t help but wonder how singer Justin Hawkins managed to avoid constant comparisons to Martin Short. Now that the album’s had a few years to percolate, let me be the first to point it out. You could do a lot worse, after all, than being compared to Martin Short.

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