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Club Foot (song)

{{Short description|2004 single by Kasabian}}

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{{Infobox song

| name = Club Foot

| cover = Club_foot.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Kasabian

| album = Kasabian

| B-side = {{flatlist|

  • "Trash Can"
  • "Sand Clit"

}}

| released = {{start date|2004|5|10|df=y}}{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=29|date=8 May 2004}}

| recorded = 2004

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = {{flatlist|

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| length = {{plainlist|

  • 3:34 (album version)
  • 2:49 (single version)

}}

| label = Paradise, RCA

| writer = {{flatlist|

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| producer = {{flatlist|

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| prev_title = Reason Is Treason

| prev_year = 2004

| next_title = L.S.F.

| next_year = 2004

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|lk5iMgG-WJI|"Club Foot"}}}}

}}

"Club Foot" is a song by English indie rock band Kasabian, featured on their 2004 debut album, Kasabian. It was released on 10 May 2004 in the UK. The video of this song, directed by W.I.Z., is dedicated to Czech student Jan Palach who in 1969 set himself on fire in protest against renewed Soviet suppression of Czechoslovakia. The video also refers to the Soviet government's intervention in the Hungarian 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 to the 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".{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/lists/150-best-tracks-of-the-past-15-years-1257|title=150 Best Tracks Of The Past 15 Years|last=Schiller|first=Rebecca|website=NME|date=October 6, 2011|access-date=December 30, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241204132041/https://www.nme.com/lists/150-best-tracks-of-the-past-15-years-1257|archive-date=December 4, 2024}} The song was used in the 2012 video game Alan Wake's American Nightmare.{{cite web|url=https://www.gamereactor.eu/kasabian-headline-alan-wake-ost/|title=Kasabian headline Alan Wake OST|last=Lemne|first=Bengt|website=Gamereactor|date=January 17, 2012|access-date=December 30, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240719063906/https://www.gamereactor.eu/kasabian-headline-alan-wake-ost/|archive-date=July 19, 2024}}

Background

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."{{citation |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1500144/20050414/kasabian.jhtml |title=Kasabian Mix Big Riffs And Dance Beats To Make Noisy Love During War |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050418002742/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1500144/20050414/kasabian.jhtml |last=Kaufman|first=Gil|website=MTV|date=14 April 2005|archive-date=18 April 2005 |access-date=6 January 2022}}

Guitarist Serge Pizzorno said the song is about "revenge and having it out."{{cite web|url=https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-2005-02-17-3589211-story.html|title=Britpop sensation Kasabian comes to America feeling groovy |last=Righi|first=Len|website= The Morning Call|date=17 February 2005 |accessdate=6 January 2022}}

Composition

Serge Pizzorno said, "We were watching a Beach 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."

MTV.com described the song as "a quilt of relentless beats, hissing electronic noises, a buzzing guitar riff and Meighan's breathless, menacing vocals." The Morning Call said it "piles layers and layers of synths atop tight guitar work before coming to a fluttering, flutey end."

Track listing

=CD=

  • PARADISE08
  1. Club Foot – 2:52
  2. Club Foot (Jagz Kooner Vocal Mix) – 4:53
  3. Trash Can – 2:53
  4. Sand Clit – 3:53

Personnel

  • Tom Meighan – lead vocals
  • Sergio Pizzorno – guitar, synths, backing vocals
  • Christopher Karloff – guitar, bass, synths

Reissue

{{Infobox song

| name = Club Foot (re-release)

| cover = Club_foot.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Kasabian

| album = Kasabian

| B-side = {{flatlist|

  • "The Duke"
  • "Bang"

}}

| released = {{start date|2005|3|21|df=y}}{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=31|date=19 March 2005}}

| recorded = 2004

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = {{flatlist|

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| length = 2:51

| label = Columbia

| writer = {{flatlist|

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| producer = {{flatlist|

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| prev_title = Cutt Off

| prev_year = 2005

| next_title = Empire

| next_year = 2006

}}

"Club Foot" is a reissued single from Kasabian. The single entered the UK Chart at No. 19 in 2004, and at No. 21 in 2005.{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/kasabian/ |title=Kasabian. 'Club Foot' |publisher=Official Charts Company |accessdate=31 July 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111100247/http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/kasabian/ |archivedate=11 November 2013 }} In 2005 it also peaked No. 27 in US Modern Rock Tracks,{{cite web|title=Kasabian – Awards: Allmusic (Billboard Singles)|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/kasabian-mw0000261419/awards|work=Allmusic|publisher=Rovi Corporation|accessdate=31 July 2013}} the same position in the same chart reached in 2011 with the single version contained in Live!, recorded at The O2 Arena in London on 15 December 2011.{{cite web | url=http://www.discogs.com/Kasabian-Live-In-London/release/3684632 | title=Kasabian – Live in London (containing 'Club Foot')| publisher=Discogs | accessdate=31 July 2013}}{{cite magazine | url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=Kasabian|chart=Alternative Songs}} |title=Kasabian – Chart history: Alternative Songs | magazine=Billboard | publisher=Prometheus Global Media | accessdate=31 July 2013}} 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".

=Track listing=

==Maxi CD==

  • PARADISE30
  1. Club Foot – 2:51
  2. The Duke – 3:35
  3. Bang – 3:05
  4. Club Foot (Jimmy Douglass Remix) – 3:21
  5. CD-rom with Club Foot promo video + Club Foot Live @ Brixton Academy video

==Mini CD==

  • PARADISE29
  1. Club Foot – 2:51
  2. 55 (Live @ Brixton Academy) – 4:23

==10" Vinyl==

  • PARADISE31
  1. Club Foot – 2:51
  2. 55 (Live @ Brixton Academy) – 4:23
  3. Club Foot (Jimmy Douglass Remix) – 3:21

==Australian EP==

  • 82876659622
  1. Club Foot – 2:51
  2. Reason Is Treason – 3:44
  3. Trash Can – 2:53

[Notes: Red Digipak]

Charts

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!Chart (2004)

!Peak
position

UK Singles Chart

|align="center"|19

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Chart (2005)

!Peak
position

UK Singles Chart

|align="center"|21

{{single chart|Billboardalternativesongs|27|artist=Kasabian|accessdate=25 September 2015}}

Certifications

{{Certification Table Top}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Kasabian|title=Club Foot|award=Platinum|relyear=2004|certyear=2020|id=12868-477-1|access-date=24 September 2020}}

{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true|noshipments=true|streaming=true}}

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • {{Discogs master|408354|Club Foot|type=single}}
  • {{YouTube|id=lk5iMgG-WJI|title="Club Foot" official music video}}

{{Kasabian singles}}

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Category:2004 singles

Category:2005 singles

Category:Kasabian songs

Category:2004 songs

Category:Songs written by Sergio Pizzorno

Category:Columbia Records singles

Category:Song recordings produced by Jim Abbiss

Category:Songs written by Christopher Karloff