| "Cross Bones Style" | |
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| Song by Cat Power from the album Moon Pix | |
| Published | September 22, 1998 |
| Recorded | January 1998 |
| Genre | Indie rock |
| Length | 4:32 |
| Label | Matador |
| Writer | Cat Power (lyricist/composer) |
| Producer | Matt Voigt |
"Cross Bones Style" is a song by the American singer/songwriter Cat Power (also known as Chan Marshall). It is the tenth song on her 1998 album, Moon Pix.
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According to Cat Power: A Good Woman by Elizabeth Goodman, Marshall wrote "Cross Bones Style," along with five other songs from Moon Pix, one night in the fall of 1997, after awaking from a hallucinatory nightmare while alone in the South Carolina farmhouse she shared with then-boyfriend, Bill Callahan. "My nightmare was surrounding my house like a tornado," she explained. "So I just ran and got my guitar because I was trying to distract myself. I had to turn on the lights and sing to God. I got a tape recorder and recorded the next sixty minutes. And I played these long changes, into six different songs. That's where I got the record." [1]
Though never released as a single, a music video directed by Brett Vapnek was made for the song. Marshall has cited the video for Madonna's "Lucky Star" as an influence. In a 1998 interview with Index, she explained, "I'm thinking of making that the single and doing a full-on "Lucky Star" style video. Like Madonna, dancing in a white room. I'm sure I'll chicken out though." [2]
In 2008, the song was included in Pitchfork Media's The Pitchfork 500. In 2010, it was ranked #129 in Pitchfork's "The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s" [3]
In 2006, the music video was ranked #44 in Stylus' top 100 music videos of all time list. [4]
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