“The Energy” by Audiovent

"The Energy" kicked off the only major-label album Audiovent ever made, 2002's Dirty Sexy Knights in Paris on Atlantic, and it was the first song the band ever sent out to rock radio. Most of that record was recycled from Papa's Dojo, the early material they'd put out back when they went by Vent, but this one was written fresh for the new album. Jason Boyd wrote the words with a hard breakup still raw, and he has said getting it down helped him work through the fallout; he shares the credit with Benjamin Einziger, Paul Fried and Jamin Wilcox.

It went top ten on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and cracked the top 20 on the Alternative Songs chart, then spread across the video game shelf: Madden 2003, Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure, Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild and BMX XXX.

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