Dashboard (song)
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Dashboard
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| Single by Modest Mouse from the album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
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| B-side | "King Rat" | ||||
| Released |  January 16, 2007 May 28, 2007 |
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| Format | Download, 7", CD | ||||
| Genre | Indie rock | ||||
| Length | 4:06 | ||||
| Label | Epic Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Isaac Brock, Modest Mouse |
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| Producer | Dennis Herring | ||||
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The "Dashboard/Education/Little Motel" Promo from Best Buy
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"Dashboard" is a song by American indie rock band Modest Mouse and is the second track on their 2007 album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. The song was released as the first single from that album and peaked at #5 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. It debuted at #59 in the Billboard Hot 100 in early February 2007.[1] In late May 2007, the song was released as a single in the United Kingdom with "King Rat" as the B-side. This single coincided with the band's UK tour.[2] This song was #87 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.[3]
Members of Modest Mouse's e-mail list were sent a link of the finished track on January 3, 2007 and the song was released to American radio stations on January 16.[4]
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[edit] Music video
A music video for the track was premiered on MTV at 6:00 a.m Monday, February 26 and repeated every hour on MTV2 and MTVU.[5] The video was directed by Mathew Cullen and Grady Hall (production company: Motion Theory) as "a drunken shouting match between sailors that expands on the nautical mythology."[6]
A behind the scenes look into the making of the "Dashboard" video entitled "A Fisherman's Tale" was included with iTunes Store pre-orders of the We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank album and the Japanese limited edition 2-disc set of said album.
[edit] Trivia
The line in the song "Oh, the dashboard melted, but we still have the radio" is a reference to the 1987 film Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
In the music video, when he is on the stretcher on the island, the camera changes views and the arm with the missing hand changes from the right hand to the left, then back again.
The line in the song "Oh if the world don't like us it'll shake us just like we were a co-oh-oh-oh-old" refers to global warming, according to Brock in an April 2007 interview by Spin Magazine.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Hasty, Katie (2007-02-08). Beyonce Makes It Ten Weeks At No. 1 With 'Irreplaceable'. Billboard.
- ^ Interstate 8 News 2007/05/14. Interstate-8 (2007-05-28). Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
- ^ No byline (December 11, 2007). "The 100 Best Songs of 2007" Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2007-12-21
- ^ Pitchfork: News - January 3, 2007. Pitchfork Media.
- ^ Modest Mouse. MySpace.
- ^ Music: Video Premiere - Modest Mouse. mtvU.
[edit] External links
- Modest Mouse at MySpace
- Modest Mouse "Dashboard" video premiere at MTV2
- Music: Video Premiere - Modest Mouse at mtvU
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