Ruby (song)

"Ruby"
Single by Kaiser Chiefs
from the album Yours Truly, Angry Mob
B-side	"Admire You", "From the Neck Down"
Released	5 February 2007
Format	Download, 7", CD
Genre	Indie rock
Length	3:23
Label	Universal Motown/B-Unique
Writer(s)	Ricky Wilson, Andrew White, Simon Rix, Nick Baines, Nick Hodgson
Producer(s)	Stephen Street
Kaiser Chiefs singles chronology
"Modern Way" (November 2005) "Ruby" (February 2007) "Everything Is Average Nowadays" (May 2007)
Yours Truly, Angry Mob track listing "Ruby" (1) "The Angry Mob" (2)

"Ruby" is a song by English rock band Kaiser Chiefs and is the lead track on their second album: Yours Truly, Angry Mob. It was released as the lead single from that album in the United Kingdom as a download on 5 February 2007 and as a limited edition 7 in and CD single on February 19 that year. It became the band's first ever #1 single on 25 February 2007 and ended 2007 as the year's 10th biggest-selling single in the UK with total sales of 313,765.^[1]

A video single of the song was released in the United States at Best Buy stores on March 13, 2007, two weeks before the album was released there, and featured a live version of "Everything Is Average Nowadays" and the B-side "Admire You" (released on the UK 7" version).^[2]

The song has sold 375,000 copies in the UK as stated by the Official UK Charts Company. Ruby also was voted #13 in the Triple J Hottest 100 in 2007.

Track listings

• 7 in (Special ruby coloured vinyl) BUN119-7

1. "Ruby"
2. "Admire You"
   • This song was also released as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of Yours Truly, Angry Mob.

• CD BUN119CD

1. "Ruby"
2. "From the Neck Down"
   • This song was also released as a bonus track on the Best Buy edition of Yours Truly, Angry Mob.

• Download

1. "Ruby"
2. "Ruby" (Live at Berlin Kesselhaus)

• Best Buy stores video single UNIR 21804-2

1. "Everything Is Average Nowadays" (live)
2. "Admire You"
3. "Ruby" (video) ^[2]

Music video

The promo for "Ruby" was directed by Swedish production company Stylewar, who also produced the 2005 video for "I Predict a Riot", and features the band performing in a desert landscape whilst a CGI metropolis-like miniature city builds around them. The video was scheduled to be shown on Channel 4 at 11:35pm on 15 January but was pulled from the schedules for unknown reasons. The video finally premiered on the official Kaiser Chiefs website four days later.

In popular culture

Television

Ruby was prominently featured in the first episode of the ITV fantasy drama Demons. It was played during a scene in which the main character, Luke Van Helsing searches for his girlfriend, who is named Ruby.

Advertising

Ruby has been played in many Ruby Tuesday restaurants and commercials to represent their brand. Plusnet, an internet provider covered part of the intro in brass. This was because both Kaiser Chiefs and Plusnet are from Yorkshire.

Videogames

The song is featured as a bonus track in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, is featured in Project Gotham Racing 4, in SingStar vol. 2 for the PlayStation 3 and as a song in Lego Rock Band. It also appears in PES 2010.

Cover versions

On 19 January 2011, Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese played a cover version of the song at the nationwide TV-show Parla con Me, with lyrics changed into a satyric reference to the Rubygate sex scandal, which then Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had just been involved with.^[3]

Charts

Chart positions

Year-end charts

References

External links

• 'Ruby' lyrics