Song · Basement Jaxx
“Rendez-Vu” by Basement Jaxx
From the album Remedy (1999)
“Rendez-Vu” by Basement Jaxx appears on 6 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1999 and 2003. It was first released in 1999 on the album Remedy. Its best result is #31 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #225 alternative song of 2000 and #5,896 alternative song of all time.
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"Rendez-Vu" was the second single from Remedy, the 1999 debut album by English electronic duo Basement Jaxx, and it is house music with a grin on its face. Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe wrote it together, and XL Recordings put it out.
It went to number four on the UK Singles Chart and topped the US Dance Club Play chart and Canada's RPM Dance 30. The video, directed by Evan Bernard, is a gloriously daft little saga: a man falls for a woman in a Hispanic town, her jealous Mexican wrestler boyfriend smashes his hand, which gets swapped for a record needle, and the two rivals settle it with a best-of-three game of rock, paper, scissors. The punchline is that the whole thing was a sleeping dog's dream.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 44 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999 | 99 |
| 2000 | 31 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2000 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 451 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) | 500 |
| 2001 | 450 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) | 498 |
| 2002 | 464 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2002) | 500 |
| 2003 | 465 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2003) | 500 |
Also listed as: Rendez-vu.
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