“Canned Heat” by Jamiroquai

"Canned Heat" was the lead single from Synkronized, Jamiroquai's fourth album, in 1999, and it's Jay Kay's show: he wrote it, arranged it, sings it and co-produced it with Al Stone, who also recorded and mixed it. Derrick McKenzie drums, Nick Fyffe plays bass, Sola Akingbola handles percussion and Toby Smith the keyboards, and the whole thing struts like disco never went out of style.

It became the band's second number one on the US Dance Club Play chart and went top five at home, Jonas Åkerlund directed the video, and a few years later it found a second life in Napoleon Dynamite. Buyers of the single got a B-side, the instrumental "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing", which had first turned up on a benefit album for Kosovar refugees.

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