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Setting Sun

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B-side
  
"Buzz Tracks"

Recorded
  
1996

Length
  
5:23

Format
  
CD 12" vinyl

Genre
  
Big beat, experimental

Released
  
September 30, 1996 (1996-09-30)

"Setting Sun" is a song by The Chemical Brothers with vocals by Noel Gallagher. It was released as a single in 1996 from their second album Dig Your Own Hole and reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart. Gallagher used an old Oasis song, "Comin' On Strong", as the basis for the lyrics to Setting Sun.

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Pitchfork Media ranked it at number 43 in their list of the Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s. The Guardian called it, alongside Underworld's "Born Slippy .NUXX", the "most experimental and sonically extreme hit [single] of the 90s."

Music video

The video was directed by Dom and Nic and features artist Lexi Strauss. http://showbizgeek.com/tag/emilia-fox/

  • The instrumental version of the song is featured in the 1997 film The Saint.
  • The song is featured in the 1997 film Nightwatch.
  • The song was used as the closing credits to Nine Network Australia's Formula 1 coverage in 1998–99.
  • In 2008, the track features on The Inbetweeners, in the episode 'Thorpe Park', when the characters ride on the Nemesis Inferno, and in an episode of The Real Hustle.
  • In 2013, the song featured in an advert for the Hyundai ix35 and in an episode of My Mad Fat Diary.

    • References

    Setting Sun Wikipedia
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