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Go with the Flow

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Released
  
April 7, 2003

Recorded
  
2002

Label
  
Polydor (UK)

Format
  
CD single, vinyl

Length
  
3:07

Genre
  
Alternative rock, hard rock, stoner rock

"Go with the Flow" is a song by Queens of the Stone Age from the album Songs for the Deaf, released as a single in 2003. At the 46th Grammy Awards, the song was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance.

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Music video

The music video for the song was filmed in England by Shynola. At the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, it won Best Special Effects and was nominated for Best Art Direction. The video—rendered in black, white, and red—features the band performing at the back of a Chevrolet pickup truck driving through a desert highway. The video also has sexual themes such as a metaphor of two cars colliding with each other, symbolizing intercourse, and an image of a bident showing some erotic attributes.

Video game usage

The song is featured in the video games Freestyle Street Soccer, Juiced 2, Gran Turismo 4, Asphalt 8: Airborne and MotorStorm: Arctic Edge. Röyksopp's remix is featured in ATV Offroad Fury 4. It appears in SingStar Rocks!, SingStar Amped, Rock Band and Rocksmith as a playable track.

Cover versions

  • Norwegian electronic music duo Röyksopp recorded a cover version/remix of this song on their Röyksopp's Night Out EP.
  • German electronic music group Northern Lite recorded a cover version of this song on their album Temper.
  • Pitty recorded a cover version for a Brazilian radio station.
  • Norwegian musician Stein Roger Sordal, formerly of Green Carnation, recorded an acoustic cover of the song.
  • Shortly after releasing Peace, Love, Death Metal via Eagles of Death Metal, lead singer Jesse Hughes released the two-song EP, A Pair of Queens, on 7" vinyl which included a cover of Go with the Flow. The EP also contains another Queens of the Stone Age track, Gonna Leave You, which lends to the EP title A Pair of Queens.

    • Track listings

    UK CD 1
    1. "Go with the Flow" (album version)
    2. "No One Knows" (UNKLE reconstruction remix radio edit)
    3. "Hangin' Tree" (live at the Melkweg in Amsterdam on June 24, 2002)
    4. "Go with the Flow" (CD-ROM video)
    UK CD 2
    1. "Go with the Flow" (album version)
    2. "Regular John" (live; Melkweg in Amsterdam on 24 June 2002)
    3. "Do It Again" (live; Melkweg in Amsterdam on 24 June 2002)
    Australian Special Edition
    1. "Go with the Flow" (album version)
    2. "Avon" (live; The Mean Fiddler, London, on June 25, 2002)
    3. "No One Knows" (Lavelle remix radio edit version)
    4. "No One Knows" (CD-ROM video)
    Dutch Edition
    1. "Go with the Flow" (album version)
    2. "Avon" (live; The Mean Fiddler on June 25, 2002)
    3. "No One Knows" (UNKLE Reconstruction radio edit)
    4. "No One Knows" (CD-ROM video)
    UK 12"
    1. "Go with the Flow" (album version)
    2. "No One Knows" (UNKLE reconstruction vocal version)

    The 12" is pressed on clear vinyl.

    References

    Go with the Flow Wikipedia
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