Ready For The Floor

There were some media claims that "Ready For The Floor" was turned down by Kylie Minogue for her 2007 X album. However band member Alexis Taylor revealed to the New Musical Express that this was written before any possible collaboration with the Australian singer was suggested. A meeting with Minogue's "top-line songwriter" had been proposed and the band were ready to offer this song as they felt it was well suited to Kylie. However the get together never took place as the band were too busy recording their third album and Minogue never got to hear the song.

Though some of the tracks, including "Ready For The Floor" were recorded in band member's homes on home-recording equipment, part of the album was recorded by the band for the first time in a proper music studio- Strongrooms studio in Shoreditch, London. Hot Chip band member Joe Goddard explained to the New Musical Express why the band wanted to make the change: "We wanted to record properly as a band for the first time. My bedroom is only six foot wide and it's got my bed in it, so I would have had to choose between my girlfriend and the band if I wanted to record it all in there! Our aim was to make the bedroom-recorded stuff, like "Shake A Fist" and "Ready For The Floor" just as exciting and vital as the studio stuff."

Taylor, who's the band's lyricist, explained to Uncut magazine February 2008 the background behind the writing of this song: "The music seemed very direct, so the first words I wrote were 'do it now' and I just wanted to finish the song straight away. It's so simple that later I wondered if there might not be enough to it. I'd been listening to a program on the radio where they said that every great Pop song has three hooks in it. This only has two. I'm not sure it's even a rule I care about but it's hard for us not to over think these things. We could have given it a catchier name too, like 'Do It Now' or 'No 1.'"