If You Keep Losing Sleep
| "If You Keep Losing Sleep" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Single by Silverchair | ||||
| from the album Young Modern | ||||
| Released | 9 October 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, neo-psychedelia | |||
| Length | 3:20 | |||
| Label | Eleven Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Daniel Johns | |||
| Producer(s) | Nick Launay David Bottrill Daniel Johns | |||
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| Audio sample | ||||
A 20 second sample from "If You Keep Losing Sleep" | ||||
"If You Keep Losing Sleep" is a song by Australian band
Rove, hosted by Rove McManus, taking elements from the song's video and bringing them into the performance. "If You Keep Losing Sleep" peaked at 16 on the official ARIA
single charts in Australia.
Music video
The
special effects throughout the video. The visual effects in the clip were produced by Brisbane-based visual effects company Liquid VFX (a division of the internationally successful animation company Liquid Animation).[2] Escott and Lance describe the clip as "Busby Berkeley meets Frankenstein. A demented toy box of Broadway horror
".
Molly Meldrum described it as "the best video I've seen from Australia ever" while discussing music with David Koch and Mel on Sunrise in August 2007.[3]
The Damon Escott and Stephen Lance directed music video was nominated for Best Video at the ARIA Music Awards of 2008.[4]
Reception
The Guardian said, "Silverchair find themselves in a nightmarish Willy Wonka world of baton-twirling, candy-crunching, bubble-machines, blowing zany melodies at crazed carnival barkers, as Oompa Loompas stomp in concert with the kick drum. It’s the furthest they travelled from the erstwhile grunge of their first album."[5]
Track listing
Australia CD Single (ELEVENCD76)
- "If You Keep Losing Sleep"
- "We're Not Lonely But We Miss You"
- "Barbarella"
Australian iTunes Single
- "If You Keep Losing Sleep"
- "We're Not Lonely But We Miss You"
- "Barbarella"
- "Hide Under Your Tongue"
Charts
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Singles Chart[6] | 16 |
References
- ^ "If you Keep Losing Sleep". CDUniverse. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- ^ "Liquid VFX". Archived from the original on 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ ARIA Award previous winners. "Winners by Award – Artisan Awards – Best Video". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ Nathan Jolly. "The 25 best Silverchair songs – sorted". The Guardian.
- ^ "Silverchair singles". australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2001-06-14.
