Song · Ladytron
“Seventeen” by Ladytron
From the album Light & Magic (2002)
“Seventeen” by Ladytron appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2002. It was first released in 2002 on the album Light & Magic. Its best result is #31 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #482 alternative song of 2002.
"Seventeen" was the opening single from Light & Magic, the second album from English electronic outfit Ladytron, out on Telstar in 2002: electroclash at its coolest and most clipped. Daniel Hunt produced it with Mickey Petralia, who also mixed, with Justin Meldal-Johnsen on electric bass and Roger Joseph Manning Jr. adding keyboards.
The lyric is famously bare, a few lines about being wanted only while you're young, then snapped in a Polaroid and shown the door. In the video the band stand in black uniforms at their synthesizers in a neon-lit black room, Mira Aroyo and Helen Marnie up front, Hunt and Reuben Wu behind, as schoolgirls and a professor file into a grey room beyond a wide window. The band also remade it as "Seventeen 05" for the "Destroy Everything You Touch" single.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 31 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2002 | 50 |
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