O Yeah
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| Single by End of Fashion from the album End of Fashion |
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| Released | July 18, 2005 | ||||
| Format | CD Single | ||||
| Recorded | 2005 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Label | EMI/Capitol Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Justin Burford | ||||
| Producer | Dennis Herring | ||||
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O Yeah is the debut single by End of Fashion, taken from their 2005 self-titled debut album End of Fashion. This song is featured in the video game FIFA Street 2.
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- "O Yeah" (Radio Edit)
- "Hardcore"
- "Quicksand" (Live)
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"O Yeah" was written in one sitting by Justin Burford on a bet that he couldn't pen a song that quickly.
“A friend bet me that I couldn’t write a song at the drop of a hat. Of course I can’t, and I was going to look like an idiot, but my mate was egging me on and I was high on life that day”. Burford said, “Go on then, write one right here right now. And I did. It’s the only time I’ve written a whole song in one sitting! To shut him up…”
Subsequently, it was realised that the song (almost) copies the guitar riff from the Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?".
In a review, Jonathon Miller wrote
"End of Fashion are having no problem appealing to the 95% of people that haven't heard (and still remember) the Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?" and have never experienced a truly exciting live show, and if that's what the band is aiming for, then they are a complete success."
In some of their later live shows, Burford has taken to inserting lyrics from the Pixies song at the end of "O Yeah", as a tongue-in-cheek move against the critics and on occasion has played the entire "Where Is My Mind?" breaking straight into "O Yeah".
The music video, set on a drag racing strip, was directed by Brycen Horne.
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