"Spray on Pants" is the second single from

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's second studio album ''

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''. It was released on 10 November 2007. The song is a take on the perceived

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subculture in

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, alluding to the very tight black jeans often forming the basis of "

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. It peaked at #47 on the Australian ARIA Chart.Charts http://www.australian-charts.com/search.asp?cat=s&search=kisschasy Retrieved: 28 January 2008

Music video

The

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is constructed in a similar fashion to George A. Romero films, with two

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s dressed as

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"emos" who initially bite a small child on his bike, making him a zombie as well. As they move closer and closer to the

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(

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), more and more zombies appear, and it appears on national

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, on the evening news. The video is interspersed with footage of the band performing the song in a hallway, which ultimately is found by the zombies in the last verse. The band are attacked, but they manage to break free of the zombies' grasp- a visual

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for the band not succumbing to the fashion trends that surround both the music and the culture that has risen in recent years. The band devise a plan, by getting two

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s to put velvet rope around a ship's storage compartment to make it look like a trendy club, to which the zombies pile in and

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. The zombies are then shipped off to

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as the band watch on with satisfaction.

Track listing

;CD single # "Spray on Pants" – 3:49 # "The Perfect Way to Meet" (live) – 2:53 # " Ugly Birds in a Beautiful Cage" (live) – 3:55 # " Opinions Won't Keep You Warm at Night" (live) – 3:43 ;iTunes EP # "Spray on Pants" – 3:50 # "The Perfect Way to Meet" (live) – 2:53 # "Ugly Birds in a Beautiful Cage" (live) – 3:55 # "Opinions Won't Keep You Warm at Night" (live) – 3:43

Charts

References

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