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“The Heinrich Maneuver” by Interpol

From the album Our Love to Admire (2007)

“The Heinrich Maneuver” by Interpol appears on 19 radio countdowns from 18 stations between 2007 and 2025. It was first released in 2007 on the album Our Love to Admire. Its best result is #18 on the WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2007. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #9 alternative song of 2007 and #331 of the '00s.

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#18best position

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2007–2025years charted

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Interpol came back in 2007 with "The Heinrich Maneuver", the lead single from Our Love to Admire and their first release after signing to Capitol. The title twists the Heimlich Maneuver into a nod at Don DeLillo's novel White Noise, which is about as bookish as a single gets.

And it does move. Rich Costey, who produced it with the band and mixed it, gives the guitars a clean, bright edge, and the whole thing rides a nervy, insistent riff. Billboard heard it as a cheerful brush-off to an old flame now living across the country, and that's the trick of it: a breakup song that sounds like it's already out the door, jacket on, not looking back. Even the picture sleeve went for flash, with a serval cat staring out from the cover.

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	#	Station	Countdown	of
2007	51	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2007	107
2007	29	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 2007	91
2007	32	Live 105 San Francisco, CA	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2007	106
2007	32	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2007	101
2007	18	WFNX Boston, MA	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2007	100
2007	26	107.7 The End Seattle, WA	The End Top 107 Songs of 2007	107
2007	76	89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON	89X Top 89 Songs of 2007	89
2007	37	CD101 Columbus, OH	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2007	101
2007	25	CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON	102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2007	102
2007	49	CHOI Radio X Quebec City, QC	CHOI Top 101 Songs of 2007	101
2007	27	88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2007	88
2007	37	102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2007	103
2007	25	KWOD Sacramento, CA	KWOD Top 106 Songs of 2007	106
2007	43	WBER Rochester, NY	WBER Listener Countdown 2007	129
2007	98	Triple J Australia (national)	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2007	100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2009	560	WYEP	WYEP 913 Essential Songs	913
2022	840	90.9 The Bridge	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s	907
2024	876	WYEP	WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years	1049
2025	810	The Current	893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now	893

Also listed as: The Heinrich Manuever; Heinrich Manuever.

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