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| Single byKasabian | ||||
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| Released | 10 May 2004 (2004-5-10)[1] | |||
| Recorded | 2004 | |||
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| Label | Paradise,RCA | |||
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"Club Foot" is a song by Englishindie rock bandKasabian, featured on their 2004 debut album,Kasabian. It was released on 10 May 2004 in the UK. The video of this song, directed byW.I.Z., is dedicated to Czech studentJan Palach who in 1969set himself on fire in protest againstrenewed Soviet suppression ofCzechoslovakia. The video also refers to theSoviet government's intervention in theHungarian Revolution of 1956 on a banner showing the text in Hungarian (Szabad Európa Rádió), which translates as "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty". The scene with the inspector girl who stands before the tank harks back tothe young man who stood in front of the line of tanks in 1989 in Tiananmen Square, which itself has become an icon for resistance.
In October 2011,NME placed it at number 108 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".[3] The song was used in the 2012 video gameAlan Wake's American Nightmare.[4]
Bassist Chris Edwards said, "It's about love and life. At the time [in 2002] [sic], the war in Iraq had just kicked off and the lyrics aren't about pushing you in one way or another, but just about what was going on at the time, what you'd read in the paper about soldiers being petrol bombed."[5]
Guitarist Serge Pizzorno said the song is about "revenge and having it out."[6]
Serge Pizzorno said, "We were watching aBeach Boys documentary and saw they had a great kind of approach to making 'Good Vibrations.' We wanted to approach 'Club Foot' the same way, to mess with the landscape and give the listener something to hold on to."[6]
MTV.com described the song as "a quilt of relentless beats, hissing electronic noises, a buzzing guitar riff and Meighan's breathless, menacing vocals."[5]The Morning Call said it "piles layers and layers of synths atop tight guitar work before coming to a fluttering, flutey end."[6]
| "Club Foot (re-release)" | ||||
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| Released | 21 March 2005 (2005-3-21)[7] | |||
| Recorded | 2004 | |||
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| Length | 2:51 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
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"Club Foot" is a reissued single fromKasabian. The single entered theUK Chart at No. 19 in 2004, and at No. 21 in 2005.[8] In 2005 it also peaked No. 27 in USModern Rock Tracks,[9] the same position in the same chart reached in 2011 with the single version contained inLive!, recorded atThe O2 Arena in London on 15 December 2011.[10][11] The Maxi CD includes two new B-sides and a remix of "Club Foot", while the 2-track CD contains a live version of non-album track "55".
[Notes: Red Digipak]
| Chart (2004) | Peak position |
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| UK Singles Chart[8] | 19 |
| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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| UK Singles Chart[8] | 21 |
| USAlternative Airplay (Billboard)[12] | 27 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United Kingdom (BPI)[13] | Platinum | 600,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
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