"(Can't Get My) Head Around You"
Single by The Offspring
from the album Splinter
B-side"Gotta Get Away (Live)"
ReleasedApril 13, 2004
Recorded2003
GenrePunk rock[1]
Length2:15
LabelColumbia[2]
Songwriter(s)Dexter Holland
Producer(s)Brendan O'Brien[3]
The Offspring singles chronology
"Hit That"
(2003)		 "(Can't Get My) Head Around You"
(2004)		 "Spare Me the Details"
(2004)

"(Can't Get My) Head Around You" is a punk rock song by The Offspring. The song features as the sixth track of the band's seventh studio album, Splinter (2003), and was released as its second single in 2004. "(Can't Get My) Head Around You" was released to radio on February 24, 2004.[4] The song also appears as the 14th and final track on the band's Greatest Hits (2005).

Music video

A music video was released in support of the single. The video clip features the band playing in a dome lit by fluorescent lights and was shot with over 125 cameras,[5] in what the band's website calls 'the ultimate performance video'. The video was directed by Joseph Kahn, with Chris Watts supervising the visual effects and the multicamera system.

This is the first music video from The Offspring to show Atom Willard playing the drums.

The music video appears on the Complete Music Video Collection DVD, released in 2005.

Track listing

Version 1[6]
No.TitleLength
1."(Can't Get My) Head Around You"2:14
2."Gotta Get Away" (Live)3:46
3."Come Out and Play" (Live)3:10
4."The Kids Aren't Alright" (BBC Radio 1 Session)4:16
Austria CD maxi[2]
No.TitleLength
1."(Can't Get My) Head Around You"2:16
2."Come Out and Play" (Live)3:12
3."Gotta Get Away" (Live)3:44
4."Hit That" (Live)2:50
5."(Can't Get My) Head Around You" (Video)2:16

Limited edition 7" picture disc

No.TitleLength
1."(Can't Get My) Head Around You"2:14
2."Gotta Get Away" (Live)3:44

Japan CD maxi

No.TitleLength
1."(Can't Get My) Head Around You"2:14
2."Hit That" (Live)2:50
3."Come Out and Play" (Live)3:12
4."Gotta Get Away" (Live)3:44
5."The Kids Aren't Alright" (BBC Radio 1 Session)4:16
6."(Can't Get My) Head Around You" (Video CD extra)2:16

Promo CD

No.TitleLength
1."(Can't Get My) Head Around You"2:14

Charts

Chart performance for "(Can't Get My) Head Around You"
Chart (2004) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[7] 53
Canada Rock Top 30 (Radio & Records)[8] 15
UK Singles (OCC)[9] 48
UK Rock & Metal (OCC)[10] 5
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[11] 16
US Alternative Airplay (Billboard)[12] 6

References

  1. ↑ , Loftus, Johnny. "Splinter - The Offspring". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
  2. 1 2 "(Can't Get My) Head Around You". Rate Your Music. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ "The Offspring – Can't Get My Head Around You". Allmusic. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
  4. ↑ "FMQB Airplay Archive: Modern Rock". Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report, Incorporated. Archived from the original on March 22, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  5. ↑ D'Angelo, Joe (March 3, 2004). "Offspring Approach Latest Video From Every Possible Angle". MTV News. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Offspring, The – (Can't Get My) Head Around You". Discogs. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
  7. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 207.
  8. ↑ "RR Canada Rock Top 30" (PDF). p. 64. Retrieved October 6, 2019.
  9. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  10. ↑ "Official Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company.
  11. ↑ "The Offspring Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard.
  12. ↑ "The Offspring Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard.



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