Joy!

{{Infobox song

| name = Joy!

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Gay Dad

| album = Leisure Noise

| B-side =

"Desire"

"Twelve"
"Sly"
"Electrogeist"

| released = 24 May 1999

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Britpop

| length = 5:00

| label = London-Sire Records

| writer = Jones, Hoyle, Crowe, Risebero

| producer = Chris Hughes

| prev_title = To Earth with Love

| prev_year = 1999

| next_title = Oh Jim

| next_year = 1999

}}

"Joy!" is a song by the English rock band Gay Dad from their first album, Leisure Noise, released as a single on 24 May 1999. It was featured in FIFA 2000 and in 2002 on a Mitsubishi television commercial. Additional vocals on the track are by Carol Kenyon.

A-Side

While most Gay Dad tracks were a collaborative effort, "Joy!" originates from a recording created by Cliff Jones ten years earlier as a student at Durham University. The finished track combines Krautrock metronomic beats, a fluid bass line and scruffy guitar riffs with a plethora of synth effects ultimately ending with a gospel recital of the lyric "Goodbye my darling I'm ready to die". In a Sound on Sound interview, lead singer Cliff Jones described the song as sounding "like a record that was made 10 minutes in the future".{{cite web|url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul99/articles/tracks.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111225160613/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul99/articles/tracks.htm|archivedate=25 December 2011|date=July 1999|title=CLIFF JONES & MARK FRITH: Recording Gay Dad's 'Joy'|publisher=Sound on Sound|last=Bell|first=Matt|accessdate=16 October 2016}}