Tangerine (Feeder song)

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“Tangerine”
“Tangerine” cover
Single by Feeder
from the album Polythene
Released February 24, 1997
Format CD, 7" single
Recorded late 1996
Genre Alternative
Length 3 min 55 s
Label Echo
Producer Grant Nicholas, Chris Sheldon
Feeder singles chronology
"Stereo World"
(1996)
"Tangerine"
(1997)
"Cement"
(1997)

"Tangerine" was the second single released by British rock band Feeder and the first that was taken from the Polythene album. The single managed to gain word-of-mouth success and made #60 on the UK top 75- their first of 23 hit singles to date.[1]

The track today since 2001 has been given a big dislike by frontman Grant Nicholas.[2] It featured on the original Gran Turismo game as an instrumental.[3] Grant once said that the song is about the struggles the band experienced while trying to get a record contract.

Contents

[edit] Music video

The music video (directed by Toby Duckett) begins with a first person camera sequence of being let in by a doorman to a London building where Feeder are performing in a dingy basement which features rats, several arcade machines, and a man in a bathtub filled with tangerines. Several slow-motion sequences occur during the performance in which tangerines fly at the band as they leap through the air, drummer Jon Lee's bass drum is also filled with tangerines. In keeping with the orange-based image of the song (and of the band at the time) the band wear several orange items of clothing during the video, including their then-trademark orange jumpsuits. At the end of the performance the camera returns to first person, leaves the building and returns to the street.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD1

  1. "Tangerine" - 3:55
  2. "Rhubarb" - 2:07
  3. "Rain" - 3:27

[edit] CD2

  1. "Tangerine" - 3:55
  2. "TV Me" - 3:28
  3. "Elegy" - 4:13

[edit] 7" vinyl

  1. "Tangerine" - 3:55
  2. "Rhubarb" - 2:07

[edit] References

  1. ^ Searchable database with chart-runs. Polyhex.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-03-04.
  2. ^ "Tangerine" single info. Feeder room inactive fansite. Retrieved on 2007-03-05.
  3. ^ Feeder Memories. BBC Wales website. Retrieved on 2007-03-05.