Battle Flag (song)

For other uses, see Battle Flag (disambiguation).
"Battle Flag"
Single by Lo Fidelity Allstars featuring Pigeonhed
from the album How To Operate With A Blown Mind
Released November 16, 1998
February 12, 1999 (US 12")
May 2, 2000 (Import re-release)
Format CD single/12" vinyl
Recorded 1997
Genre Electronica
Length 5:57 (original Pigeonhed version)
5:39 (Lo Fidelity Allstars remix)
4:00 (single edit)
Label Skint, Columbia
Writer(s) Pigeonhed
Producer(s) Lo Fidelity Allstars
Lo Fidelity Allstars featuring Pigeonhed singles chronology
"Vision Incision"
(1998)		 "Battle Flag"
(1998)		 "Blisters On My Brain"
(1998)
Alternative covers
U.K. single #2
U.S. CD single

"Battle Flag" (or "Battleflag") is a 1997 song by American funk rock band Pigeonhed which appeared on their 1997 album The Full Sentence. In 1998, the song was remixed by the British big beat group Lo Fidelity Allstars for the Pigeonhed remix album Flash Bulb Emergency Overflow Cavalcade of Remixes.

The "Battleflag" remix, credited to "Lo Fidelity Allstars (featuring Pigeonhed)" was issued as a single in November 1998 and appeared on Lo Fidelity Allstars' album How To Operate With A Blown Mind. Although the song was a minor hit in the United Kingdom, reaching #36 on the UK Singles Chart,[1] it was a major hit on American alternative rock radio and reached #6 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart.[2]

Media appearances

The song was featured in NBC's prime-time medical drama ER, most notably in the Season 6 episode, "Be Still My Heart" where while the ER staff celebrate Valentine's Day, Dr. Lucy Knight (Kellie Martin) is found injured, stabbed by schizophrenic patient Paul Sobriki (David Krumholtz), when Dr. John Carter (Noah Wyle) enters a room and is also stabbed. The song was used again in the Season 8 episode, "Beyond Repair", where Carter meets Sobriki again. Other uses include season three episode eleven of Showtime's drama Queer as Folk US, as well as a season one episode of The WB's Smallville and a season one episode of HBO's The Sopranos. It also featured in the films Coyote Ugly, Forces of Nature, Mean Machine and Very Bad Things, and the trailers for Charlie's Angels, The 51st State, Drillbit Taylor, and Duke Nukem Forever. The song was also used on the 2000 WWF (now WWE) video tape Eve of Destruction. Additionally, it has been included on countless music compilations.

Track listing

1998 UK single #1

  1. "Battleflag (Full Version)"
  2. "Pony Pressure"
  3. "Battleflag (Bonus Beats)"

1998 UK single #2

  1. "Battleflag (Radio Edit)"
  2. "Battleflag (Space Raiders)"
  3. "Battleflag (Live At The Big Beat Boutique)"

1998 US CD single

  1. "Battle Flag [Radio Version]" – 3:54
  2. "Battle Flag (Callout Hook #1)" – 0:10
  3. "Battle Flag (Callout Hook #2)" – 0:05

1999 US 12"

  1. "Battle Flag" – 5:29
  2. "Blisters on My Brain" – 7:09
  3. "Pony Pressure" – 4:48
  4. "Vision Incision" – 5:24

Several more versions of the single can be found at Shawn Smith's Official Website

References

  1. ↑ "Lo Fidelity Allstars". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
  2. ↑ "Lo Fidelity Allstars - Chart history | Billboard". www.billboard.com.
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