Joy!

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"Joy!"
Single by Gay Dad
from the album Leisure Noise
Released 24 May 1999 (Intended release 17 May 1999)
Format CD single, vinyl, Cassette
Genre Britpop
Length 5:00
Label London-Sire Records
Writer(s) Mark Firth
Producer(s) Chris Hughes
Gay Dad singles chronology

"To Earth with Love"
(1999)		 "Joy!"
(1999)		 "Oh Jim"
(1999)

"Joy!" is Gay Dad's best known and most successful song. It was featured on Fifa 2000 and in 2002 on a Mitsubishi television commercial. Additional vocals on the track are by Carol Kenyon.

A-Side

Whilst most Gay dad Tracks were written with the band work together Joy! originates from a recording created by Cliff Jones ten years as a student at Durham University. The finished track combines Krautrockmetronomic beats, a fluid bass line and scruffy Guitar riffs with a plethora of synth effects ultimately ending with a gospel recital of the lyric "Goodbye my darling I'm ready to die". In a Sound on Sound interview, lead singer Cliff Jones described the song as sounding "like a record that was made 10 minutes in the future".[1]

Track listing

CD1

  1. "Joy!" (Radio Edit) - 3:40
  2. "Sly" - 4:56
  3. "Desire" 5:43

CD2

  1. "Joy!" (Extended Version) - 5:00
  2. "Electrogeist" - 5:39
  3. "Twelve" 4:14

10" Vinyl

  1. "Joy!"
  2. "Desire" 5:43

Cassette

  1. "Joy!" (Radio Edit) - 3:40
  2. "Electrogeist" - 5:39
  3. "Sly" - 4:56

Charts

Chart (2002/2003) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 22

References

  1. ↑ http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul99/articles/tracks.htm

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