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“The racing rats” by Editors
From the album An End Has a Start (2007)
“The racing rats” by Editors appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2008. It was first released in 2007 on the album An End Has a Start. Its best result is #45 on the Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2008. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #615 alternative song of 2008.
"The Racing Rats" came off An End Has a Start, the second Editors album, in 2007, and went out that November as the record's third single, spread across a CD and three 7-inch singles in the UK and a pair of CDs plus a DVD in Europe. Tom Smith, Chris Urbanowicz, Russell Leetch and Ed Lay share the writing credit, and Jacknife Lee produced it, with Tom McFall engineering and Cenzo Townshend mixing, Neil Comber assisting.
It's post-punk revival at a gallop, pitched in E minor and clocking 154 beats a minute, and it climbed to number 26 on the UK chart, one spot better than the title track before it. In 2008 it soundtracked the BAFTA Fellowship tribute to Anthony Hopkins.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 45 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2008 | 50 |
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