Proper Education

"Proper Education"
Single by Eric Prydz vs. Pink Floyd
from the album Proper Education
Released January 5, 2007
Format CD single
DVD single
vinyl
Digital download
Genre Dance
Electro house
Label Ministry of Sound
Data Records
Ultra Records (U.S.)
Writer(s) E. Prydz, Roger Waters, David Gilmour (uncredited)
Producer E. Prydz
Eric Prydz singles chronology
"Woz Not Woz"
(2005)		 "Proper
Education"
(2007)		 "Pjanoo"
(2008)
Alternative cover
Cd2 Cover

"Proper Education" is a remix by the Swedish DJ and producer Eric Prydz. The original song by Pink Floyd, "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II", was remixed to create this song; it has a much more emphasized 4/4 beat than the original song. It made it to number two in the United Kingdom and reached number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay chart in the United States in 2007, making it the first remixed recording of an original song to reach the top spot on this chart. On December 8, 2007, the song also received a nomination for best remixed recording at the 2008 Grammy Awards.

Contents

Music video

The music video for this song includes teenagers escaping school while doing parkour stunts and other various actions, like jumping from building to building. They then sneak into a number of apartments and perform energy efficient tasks, such as replacing lightbulbs with their energy efficient equivalent, turning down thermostats, turning off televisions, putting bricks in toilets (to save water) etc. Finally, they tap into the apartment complex's power grid and power down the whole building, before re-lighting some of the apartments so that the words "SWITCH OFF" appear in lights on the side of the building. The video ends with the words "you don't need an education to save the planet".

Track listings

CD single
  1. "Proper Education" (Radio Edit) — 3:22
  2. "Proper Education" (Club Mix) — 6:08
CD maxi
  1. "Proper Education" (Radio Edit) — 3:20
  2. "Proper Education" (Original Version) — 6:08
  3. "Proper Education" (Sébastien Léger Remix) — 9:03
  4. "Proper Education" (Sebastian Ingrosso Remix) — 8:57
  5. "Proper Education" (Video)
12" maxi
  1. "Proper Education" (Club Mix) — 6:09 — 8:57
  2. "Proper Education" (Dub Mix) — 8:38

Certifications

Country Certification Date Sales certified
Denmark[1] Gold November 27, 2007 4,000

Charts

Chart (2006/07) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[2] 20
Austrian Singles Chart[2] 20
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart[2] 2
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart[3] 12
Danish Singles Chart[2] 3
Dutch Singles Chart[2] 3
Finnish Singles Chart[2] 1
French SNEP Singles Chart[2] 10
German Singles Chart[2] 4
Irish Singles Chart[2] 9
Italian Singles Chart[3] 11
Spanish Singles Chart[2] 4
Swedish Singles Chart[2] 7
Swiss Singles Chart[2] 12
UK Singles Chart[2] 2
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[4] 29

Year-end charts

Chart (2007) Rank
German Singles Chart [5] 51
Swedish Singles Chart[6] 68
Preceded by
"Koneeseen kadonnut" by Apulanta		 Finnish number-one single
4/2007 (1 week)		 Succeeded by
"Perfect Skin" by The 69 Eyes
Preceded by
"U + Ur Hand" by Pink		 Billboard Hot Dance Airplay number-one single
February 24, 2007-March 3, 2007		 Succeeded by
"Say It Right" by Nelly Furtado

References

  1. ^ Danish certifications ifpi.dk (Retrieved January 17, 2009)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Proper Education", in various singles charts Acharts.us (Retrieved January 17, 2009)
  3. ^ a b "Proper Education", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved January 17, 2009)
  4. ^ Billboard allmusic.com (Retrieved January 17, 2009)
  5. ^ http://www.mtv.de/charts/Single_Jahrescharts_2007
  6. ^ "Årslista Singlar – År 2007" (in Swedish). Swedish Recording Industry Association. http://www.hitlistan.se/netdata/ghl002.mbr/lista?liid=43&dfom=20070001&newi=0&height=420&platform=Win32&browser=MSIE&navi=no&subframe=Mainframe. Retrieved 8 December 2010.