"Joy!"
Single by Gay Dad
from the album Leisure Noise
B-side"Desire"
  • "Twelve"
  • "Sly"
  • "Electrogeist"
Released24 May 1999
GenreBritpop
Length5:00
LabelLondon-Sire Records
Songwriter(s)Jones, Hoyle, Crowe, Risebero
Producer(s)Chris Hughes
Gay Dad singles chronology
"To Earth with Love"
(1999)		 "Joy!"
(1999)		 "Oh Jim"
(1999)

"Joy!" is a song by the English rock band Gay Dad from their first album, Leisure Noise, released as a single on 24 May 1999. It was featured in FIFA 2000 and in 2002 on a Mitsubishi television commercial. Additional vocals on the track are by Carol Kenyon.

A-Side

While most Gay Dad tracks were a collaborative effort, "Joy!" originates from a recording created by Cliff Jones ten years earlier as a student at Durham University. The finished track combines Krautrock metronomic 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!" (single edit) - 3:40
  2. "Sly" - 4:56
  3. "Desire" - 5:43

CD2

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

10" Vinyl

  1. "Joy!" (album version) - 5:00
  2. "Desire" - 5:43

Cassette

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

Charts

Chart (1999) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 22

References

  1. ↑ Bell, Matt (July 1999). "CLIFF JONES & MARK FRITH: Recording Gay Dad's 'Joy'". Sound on Sound. Archived from the original on 25 December 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.