I've been listening back to my fave songs of the year in order to add my vote to the festive fifty. I realise now that my favourite song of the year is actually a cut'n'shut. Two abandoned songs, probably unserviceable and beyond repair in their own right, have been hastily welded together and sent onto the forecourt.
And waddaya know, it runs like a dream.

In this case the song in question is Bloodbuzz Ohio by The National. Put that song up on a ramp and inspect the underside. You've got a song called Ohio that has some nice ideas but doesn't really go anywhere. Just about at the point when it should tail off, they launch into a completely different song called Bloodbuzz that only really has a chorus. And somehow the whole thing works beautifully.

I suppose the old cut'n'shut has been around for years. A Day In The Life being the obvious one that springs to mind (along with plenty of other HJH songs (maybe even HJ?)). All I'm saying is hurrah for them. More tig-welding please in the practice garages of rock.