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Good Luck (Basement Jaxx song)

{{Short description|2004 single by Basement Jaxx}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2018}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Good Luck

| cover = BasementJaxx GoodLuck.png

| alt =

| caption = Original UK release artwork

| border = yes

| type = single

| artist = Basement Jaxx featuring Lisa Kekaula

| album = Kish Kash

| B-side = Mere Pass

| released = {{start date|2004|1|5|df=y}}

| recorded =

| studio = Jaxx (Loughborough Junction, London, England)

| genre =

| length =

  • 4:38 (album version)
  • 3:36 (radio edit)

| label = XL

| writer =

  • Felix Buxton
  • Simon Ratcliffe
  • Lisa Kekaula

| producer = Basement Jaxx

| chronology = Basement Jaxx

| prev_title = Lucky Star

| prev_year = 2003

| next_title = Plug It In

| next_year = 2004

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Lisa Kekaula

| type = singles

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| title = Good Luck

| year = 2003

| next_title = U Don't Know Me

| next_year = 2005

}}

{{Extra album cover

| header = Alternative cover

| type = Single

| cover = Basement Jaxx - Good Luck 2.png

| border =

| alt =

| caption = UK re-release artwork featuring Lisa Kekaula in the song's music video

}}

}}

"Good Luck" is a song by British electronic music duo Basement Jaxx featuring vocals from Lisa Kekaula of American band the Bellrays. It was released on 5 January 2004 as the second single from their third studio album, Kish Kash, and reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart, number two on the US Dance Club Play chart, and number 22 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. The song was nominated in the Best Dance Recording category at the 47th Grammy Awards.{{cite web|url=https://www.digitalhit.com/grammy/47/nominees.shtml|title=47th Grammy® Awards Nominations|publisher=DigitalHit|access-date=8 July 2021}}

Development

"We had to kick it off with something. Whatever we chose people would say, 'That isn't house music.' Who cares?" (Complaints about the lack of house music have appeared on the band's website.) It's a brave track, even more so for including a 16-piece orchestra. But it didn't come easily. "Initially, Lisa sounded like a diva and we didn't want that. With two hours before she had to go back to America, Simon strummed an AC/DC riff and I scribbled down some words and suddenly we had something that didn't sound like a Basement Jaxx record - a rock 'n' roll song which didn't even sound modern."{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/burning-down-the-house-that-basement-jaxx-built-92756.html|title=Burning down the house that Basement Jaxx built|last=Chapman|first=Anna|website=Independent|date=24 October 2003|access-date=14 June 2016}}

Buxton said the song was the most difficult track to work on of the album. "That took us ages and we went through loads of processes. It took a long time to get it to its finish point," stated Buxton.{{YouTube|MpV1YCfHW1Y|Interview Basement Jaxx - Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe (part 2)}}. FaceCulture. 4 August 2006. Retrieved 17 August 2016.

Critical reception

While predicting winners from all of the 47th Annual Grammy Awards' categories, Sal Cinquemani and Eric Henderson from Slant Magazine predicted the song's win, with Henderson calling the song "a fantastic, chugging single that shoves Britney's sex-pixie ditty and the Scissor Sisters's queer-as-milquetoast shtick face down in the dirt."{{cite web|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-47th-annual-grammy-awards-winner-predictions|title=Grammy 2005 Winner Predictions|last1=Cinquemani|first1=Sal|last2=Henderson|first2=Eric|website=Slant Magazine|date=20 January 2005|access-date=12 June 2016}}

Music video

A music video was produced to promote the single, filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}

Track listings

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UK CD single (first release){{cite AV media notes|title=Good Luck|others=Basement Jaxx|year=2004|type=UK CD single liner notes|publisher=XL Recordings|id=XLS178CD}}

  1. "Good Luck"
  2. "Mere Pass"

UK 12-inch single (first release){{cite AV media notes|title=Good Luck|others=Basement Jaxx|year=2004|type=UK 12-inch single sleeve|publisher=XL Recordings|id=XLT178}}

:A1. "Good Luck" (Tim Deluxe Funked club mix)

:B1. "Mere Pass"

:B2. "Good Luck" (Tim Deluxe Funked dub)

UK 12-inch single (Roni Size mixes){{cite AV media notes|title=Good Luck|others=Basement Jaxx|year=2004|type=UK 12-inch remix single vinyl disc|publisher=XL Recordings|id=XLR 178}}

:A. "Good Luck" (Roni Size vocal mix)

:B. "Good Luck" (Roni Size dancefloor mix)

UK CD single (re-release){{cite AV media notes|title=Good Luck|others=Basement Jaxx|year=2004|type=UK CD single liner notes|publisher=XL Recordings|id=XLS190CD}}

  1. "Good Luck"
  2. "Cish Cash" (featuring Siouxsie Sioux)

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UK 12-inch single (re-release){{cite AV media notes|title=Good Luck|others=Basement Jaxx|year=2004|type=UK 12-inch single vinyl disc|publisher=XL Recordings|id=XLT190}}

:A1. "Good Luck"

:A2. "Ah-Choo"

:B1. "Onyx"

UK 12-inch single (remixes){{cite AV media notes|title=Good Luck|others=Basement Jaxx|year=2004|type=UK 12-inch remix single vinyl disc|publisher=XL Recordings|id=XLR190}}

:A1. "Good Luck" (summer bootleg version)

:B1. "Cish Cash" (Vitalic remix)

:B2. "Right Here's the Spot" (Switch's Drunk at the Dogstar mix)

Australian and New Zealand CD single{{cite AV media notes|title=Good Luck|others=Basement Jaxx|year=2004|type=Australian & New Zealand CD single liner notes|publisher=Remote Control Records, XL Recordings|id=XLS178CD}}

  1. "Good Luck" (album version) – 4:27
  2. "Mere Pass" – 4:49
  3. "Good Luck" (Tim Deluxe Funked club mix) – 7:15
  4. "Good Luck" (Tim Deluxe Funked dub) – 6:54
  5. "Good Luck" (Roni Size vocal mix) – 4:24
  6. "Good Luck" (Roni Size dancefloor mix) – 6:07

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Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Kish Kash.{{cite AV media notes |title=Kish Kash |others=Basement Jaxx |id=XLCD174 |year=2003 |type=CD liner notes |publisher=XL |location=United Kingdom }}

Recording and management

Personnel

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Charts

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=Weekly charts=

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!Chart (2004)

!Peak
position

{{single chart|Australia|22|artist=Basement Jaxx feat. Lisa Kekaula|song=Good Luck|rowheader=true|access-date=14 December 2018}}
scope="row"|Australian Club Chart (ARIA){{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/Issue726.pdf|title=The ARIA Report – ARIA Club Tracks – Week Commencing 26th January 2004|publisher=ARIA|page=15|date=26 January 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040209130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20040210-0000/Issue726.pdf|archive-date=9 February 2004|access-date=15 April 2021}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

|1

{{single chart|Australiadance|2|url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040306130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20040307-0000/Issue728.pdf|urltitle=Issue 728|rowheader=true|access-date=15 April 2021}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
{{single chart|Flanders Tip|2|artist=Basement Jaxx|song=Good Luck|rowheader=true|access-date=15 April 2021}}
{{single chart|Flanders Dance|27|artist=Basement Jaxx|song=Good Luck|rowheader=true|access-date=15 April 2021}}
{{single chart|Hungarydance|20|year=2004|week=8|rowheader=true|access-date=10 March 2020}}
{{single chart|Ireland2|28|song=Good Luck|rowheader=true|access-date=18 January 2020}}
scope="row"|Ireland Dance (IRMA){{cite web|url=https://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p%2Fmusicvideo%2Fmusic%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=240004&arch=t&lyr=2004&year=2004&week=3|title=Top 10 Dance Singles, Week Ending 15 January 2004|publisher=GfK Chart-Track|access-date=17 June 2019}}{{Dead link|date=May 2020|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}

|4

{{single chart|Dutch40|29|year=2004|week=8|rowheader=true|access-date=14 December 2018}}
{{single chart|Dutch100|43|artist=Basement Jaxx feat. Lisa Kekaula|song=Good Luck|rowheader=true|access-date=14 December 2018}}
{{single chart|Scotland|19|date=20040117|rowheader=true|access-date=14 December 2018}}
{{single chart|UK|12|date=20040117|rowheader=true|access-date=14 December 2018}}
{{single chart|UKdance|1|date=20040117|rowheader=true|access-date=14 December 2018}}
{{single chart|UKindie|1|date=20040710|rowheader=true|access-date=14 December 2018}}
{{single chart|Billboarddanceclubplay|2|artist=Basement Jaxx|rowheader=true|access-date=6 February 2024}}

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=Year-end charts=

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!Chart (2004)

!Position

scope="row"|Australian Club Chart (ARIA){{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-club-chart-2004.htm|title=ARIA Charts – End of Year Charts – Club Chart 2004|publisher=ARIA|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200415012006/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-club-chart-2004.htm|archive-date=15 April 2020|access-date=17 September 2020}}

|5

scope="row"|Australian Dance (ARIA){{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-dance-singles-2004.htm|title=ARIA Charts – End of Year Charts – Dance Singles 2004|publisher=ARIA|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200415011443/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-dance-singles-2004.htm|archive-date=15 April 2020|access-date=17 September 2020}}

|12

scope="row|US Dance Club Play (Billboard){{cite magazine|title=Year in Music & Touring: Hot Dance Club Play Singles|magazine=Billboard|volume=116|issue=52|page=YE-60|date=25 December 2004}}

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Certifications

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Basement Jaxx ft Lisa Kekaula|title=Good Luck|award=Silver|relyear=2004|certyear=2020|id=16248-5196-1|access-date=10 March 2020}}

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Release history

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scope="row"|United Kingdom

|5 January 2004

|{{hlist|12-inch vinyl|CD}}

|XL

|{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=31|date=27 December 2003}}

scope="row"|Australia

|12 January 2004

|CD

|{{hlist|Remote Control|XL}}

|{{cite web|url=http://remotecontrolrecords.com.au/releaseDetail.asp?ReleaseID=472|title=Basement Jaxx – Good Luck|publisher=Remote Control Records|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050621214524/http://remotecontrolrecords.com.au/releaseDetail.asp?ReleaseID=472|archive-date=21 June 2005|access-date=19 February 2025}}

scope="row"|United Kingdom (re-release)

|28 June 2004

|{{hlist|12-inch vinyl|CD}}

|XL

|{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=27|date=26 June 2004}}

In popular culture

{{More citations needed|date=December 2018}}

"Good Luck" featured as the opening theme song to the 2004 CGI anime movie Appleseed and was also featured in the Victoria's Secret fashion show for 2003 and 2005.{{citation needed|date=September 2011}}

A version without lyrics was used during the opening sequence of the BBC's UEFA Euro 2004 television coverage.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PH8-JXBSIU|title=Match of the Day – Euro 2004}} This spawned a re-release of the original single, and it entered at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart on 4 July 2004. The same instrumental version was later used by BBC Radio Sheffield as the opening theme for their live local football coverage, where it is still in use as of December 2017.

The song appeared on American reality television series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

References

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Category:Basement Jaxx songs

Category:2003 songs

Category:2004 singles

Category:Astralwerks singles

Category:Songs written by Felix Buxton

Category:Songs written by Simon Ratcliffe (musician)

Category:UK Independent Singles Chart number-one singles

Category:XL Recordings singles