Insomnia (Feeder song)

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"Insomnia"
"Insomnia" cover
Single by Feeder
from the album Yesterday Went Too Soon
Format CD
Recorded 1998
Genre Alternative, indie
Length 2 min 52 s
Label Echo label
Producer(s) Grant Nicholas, Feeder
Chart positions
  • #22 (UK)
  • #85 (Europe)
Feeder singles chronology
"Day in Day Out"
(1998)
"Insomnia"
(1999)
"Yesterday Went Too Soon"
(1999)

Insomnia was the second single released from British rock band Feeder's 1999 album "Yesterday Went Too Soon". It reached #22 in the UK charts and was at the time Feeder's 4th consecutive single to reach the Top 40.

The single was released with a few plays on MTV in the USA, with roughly one or two plays a day. It was released as a promo to US radio, but didn't chart due to a lack of promotion from their US label.

When the single charted in the UK, it was their biggest hit at the time and got them on the popular now defunct UK music show "Top Of The Pops". From there the bands awareness increased and the follow-up single "Yesterday Went Too Soon" cracked the top 20 and helped the album of the same name go top 10.

It also seen their only performance on TFI Friday which was before it's release, also a defunct TV show.

When Grant Nicholas was on Radio 1 being interviewed, he said Brilliant!, we're doing Top of The Pops. After all these years watching it, we're finally on it.

The video featured the band playing in the Chelsea Hotel in New York and a few other places, such as a tube train. The video was meant to be shot outside, but weather conditions changed plans.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD1

  1. Insomnia - 2:52
  2. Space Age Hero - 3:46
  3. Living In Polaroid - 3:39

[edit] CD2

  1. Insomnia - 2:52
  2. Divebomb - 1:25
  3. Fly - 3:41

[edit] MC

  1. Insomnia
  2. Cement (Live)
  3. High (Live)
Feeder
Grant Nicholas | Taka Hirose | Mark Richardson
Jon Lee
Discography
Albums and extended plays: Two Colours EP | Swim EP | Polythene | Yesterday Went Too Soon | Echo Park | Swim Rerelease | Comfort in Sound | Picture of Perfect Youth | Pushing the Senses | Feeder The Singles
Singles: Stereo World | Tangerine | Cement | Crash | High | Suffocate | Day in Day Out | Insomnia | Yesterday Went Too Soon | Paperfaces | Buck Rogers | Seven Days in the Sun | Turn | Piece by Piece | Just a Day | Come Back Around | Just the Way I'm Feeling | Forget About Tomorrow | Find the Colour | Comfort In Sound | Tumble And Fall | Feeling A Moment | Pushing the Senses | Shatter / Tender | Lost and Found | Save Us