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“Where's Your Head At?” by Basement Jaxx

From the album Rooty (2001)

“Where's Your Head At?” by Basement Jaxx appears on 22 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 2001 and 2025. It was first released in 2001 on the album Rooty. Its best result is #4 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #76 alternative song of 2001, #5,871 alternative song of all time and #459 of the '00s.

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Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At (Official Video)

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"Where's Your Head At?" was the third single Basement Jaxx pulled from Rooty, their second album, in 2001, and it's the sound of house music barging into a mosh pit. The engine is borrowed from Gary Numan, whose "M.E." and "This Wreckage" get chopped up for samples, which is why he shares the writing credit with Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe.

Damien Peachey supplies the hollering vocal, and the whole thing lurches between a grinding electro riff and a chorus that sounds like an entire club losing it at once. Rock radio took the bait: it made number 39 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart, the duo's only American hit outside the dance charts. Traktor's video, set in a Prague mental hospital where a scientist shows off his idea of the latest pop music, is gloriously deranged. Pitchfork later ranked it 83rd among the 500 best tracks of the decade.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2001 61 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2001 91
2001 88 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2001 89
2001 16 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 101
2001 55 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001 99
2001 51 (tie) WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2001 191
2001 57 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2001 103
2001 4 Triple J Australia (national) Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001 100
2002 48 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002 106
2002 64 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2002 100
2002 90 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 2002 107
2002 94 Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2002 105
2002 9 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2002 224
2002 70 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2002 103
2003 65 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2003 106

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2001 1979 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1962 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2003 1891 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1891 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1876 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 859 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2022 114 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s 907
2025 796 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century 909

Also listed as: Where's Your Head At.

Charting alongside it in 2001

Best songs of 2001 →
  1. 1Hash PipeWeezer
  2. 2SchismTool
  3. 3How You Remind MeNickelback
  4. 4Smooth CriminalAlien Ant Farm
  5. 5It's Been AwhileStaind
  6. 6Fat LipSum 41

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