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“Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair” by Arctic Monkeys
From the album Suck It and See (2011)
“Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair” by Arctic Monkeys appears on 8 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2011 and 2014. It was first released in 2011 on the album Suck It and See. Its best result is #11 on the Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #126 alternative song of 2011 and #7,107 alternative song of all time.
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"Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair" was the first taste of Arctic Monkeys' fourth album, Suck It and See, in 2011, and its title started as a throwaway line: Alex Turner said it to an engineer in the studio, and producer James Ford reckoned it sounded like the name of some forgotten vintage garage-rock nugget. Turner took the bait and wrote the song to fit, comparing the dare to the moment in Funky Monks where Rick Rubin pitches Anthony Kiedis a similar idea.
The result is a swaggering list of things you'd better not do, all sneer and deadpan cool, mixed by Craig Silvey. Zane Lowe gave it its first spin on BBC Radio 1, and the band only came round to making it the lead single when their label suggested it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 86 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2011 | 101 |
| 2011 | 45 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102 Songs of 2011 | 102 |
| 2011 | 11 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2011 | 40 |
| 2011 | 89 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2011 | 103 |
| 2011 | 68 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2011 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1991 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1901 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1953 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
Also listed as: Don't sit down cause I've moved your chair.
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