Float On
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| "Float On" | ||
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| Single by Modest Mouse | ||
| from the album Good News for People Who Love Bad News | ||
| Released | February 13, 2004 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | 2003 | |
| Genre | Indie Rock | |
| Length | 3:28 | |
| Label | Epic Records | |
| Producer(s) | Dennis Herring | |
| Modest Mouse singles chronology | ||
| "Whenever You See Fit" (1998) |
"Float On" (2004) |
"Ocean Breathes Salty" (2004) |
| Good News for People Who Love Bad News track listing | ||
| "The World at Large" (2) |
"Float On" (3) |
"Ocean Breathes Salty" (4) |
"Float On" is a single released by indie rock band Modest Mouse. It had also appeared on their album Good News for People Who Love Bad News. The song was released on February 14, 2004 and was the first Modest Mouse song to gain mainstream popularity. Nearly a half year after its release, it became the band's first #1 hit on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
[edit] Single
The following tracks appeared on the single:
- "Float On" - 3:32
- "I've Got it All (Most)" - 3:06
[edit] Trivia
This song was covered by Australian artist Ben Lee for the 2006 motion picture John Tucker Must Die, and again by indie band Goldspot for the sixth soundtrack of The OC, released on December 5, 2006. It was also used as the soundtrack for Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006).
This song is also featured in Weird Al Yankovic's song Polkarama! on the album Straight Outta Lynwood.
On March 14, 2007 the song was used in a segment on American Idol that served as an advertisement for the Ford Motor Company. Idol producers later confirmed that the segment was actually based on the Kidz Bop cover of the song.
| Preceded by "Slither" by Velvet Revolver |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single July 31, 2004 |
Succeeded by "Just Like You" by Three Days Grace |
| Modest Mouse |
| Isaac Brock • Eric Judy • Jeremiah Green • Johnny Marr |
| Dann Gallucci • Benjamin Weikel • Chris Majeras |
| Studio albums |
| Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect? • This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About • Interstate 8 • The Fruit That Ate Itself •The Lonesome Crowded West • The Moon & Antarctica • Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks • Good News for People Who Love Bad News • We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Other albums |
| Night On the Sun • Building Nothing Out of Something • Sad Sappy Sucker • Baron von Bullshit Rides Again |
| Songs |
| "Broke" • "A Life of Arctic Sounds" • "Birds vs. Worms" • "Polar Opposites" • "Other People's Lives" • "Never Ending Math Equation" • "Whenever You See Fit" • "Heart Cooks Brain" • "The Moon & Antartica" • "Float On" • "Ocean Breathes Salty" • "The World at Large" •"Dashboard" • "King Rat" |
| Labels |
| K Records • Sub Pop • Up Records • Epic Records • Suicide Squeeze Records • Hit or Miss • Rebel Beat Factory |
