That Golden Rule

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"That Golden Rule"
Only Revolutions
B-side
  • Prey Hey
  • Eye Lids
  • Time Jazz
Released23 August 2009
Recorded2009
GenreAlternative metal
Length3:50
Label14th Floor
Songwriter(s)Simon Neil
Producer(s)Garth Richardson
Biffy Clyro singles chronology
"Mountains"
(2008) 		"That Golden Rule"
(2009) 		"The Captain"
(2009)
Only Revolutions track listing
  1. "The Captain"
  2. "That Golden Rule"
  3. "Bubbles"
  4. "God and Satan"
  5. "Born on a Horse"
  6. "Mountains"
  7. "Shock Shock"
  8. "Many of Horror"
  9. "Booooom, Blast & Ruin"
  10. "Cloud of Stink"
  11. "Know Your Quarry"
  12. "Whorses"

"That Golden Rule" is the second single to be taken from

Only Revolutions
, released on 23 August 2009.

The band describe the song as a mixture of

UK Singles Chart on 30 August 2009, as well as number one on the Scottish Singles Chart, making the song the band's fourth and most recent number-one single on that chart. The song was used by Sky Sports in its coverage of Super League
from 2011 to 2013.

Music video

The video for That Golden Rule was shot in Chiswick House, West London. It was released on NME's official website on 22 July 2009. The video received heavy airplay on British rock television stations Scuzz and Kerrang! TV and has been A-listed by BBC Radio 1.[2]

Artwork

Storm Thorgerson's artwork for the single references the band's previous studio album, Puzzle, with a missing jigsaw piece resting in front of a sailor. The other man, sailing into the distance, appears to have a jigsaw shaped hole in his side – it is likely that this represents the man depicted on the front cover of Puzzle.

Thorgerson later confirmed this on his official website, stating:[3]

Our design for Biffy was about two boats passing, the receding one representing the previous album [Puzzle] and steered by the puzzle man, into the distance, into the past; the approaching boat steered by the 'women-laden man' pushing forward in the rain, his troubled life etched on his face heading into an uncertain future, into the present, shot for real 'at sea' betwixt

Skye and the Scottish
mainland.

Track listing

CD single 14FLR38CD

  1. "That Golden Rule"
  2. "Prey Hey"

7" Picture Vinyl 14FLR38

  1. "That Golden Rule"
  2. "Eye Lids"

7" Orange Vinyl 14FLR38X

  1. "That Golden Rule"
  2. "Time Jazz"

iTunes Digital EP

  1. "That Golden Rule"
  2. "Prey Hey"
  3. "Eye Lids"
  4. "Time Jazz"

Charts

Chart (2009) Peak
position
Scotland (OCC)[4] 1
UK Singles (OCC)[5]
 10

References

  1. ^ Radio 1's Hottest Record in the World http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/zanelowe/2009/07/hottest_record_biffy_clyro_tha.html
  2. ^ Biffy Clyro mailing list email, 3 August 2009
  3. ^ "High-tech or Stone-age?". stormthorgerson.com. Archived from the original on 3 June 2003.
  4. ^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  5. ^ "Biffy Clyro: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
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