“Southside” by Moby featuring Gwen Stefani

"Southside" was the seventh single pulled from Moby's fifth album, Play (1999), sent to radio in 2000 with No Doubt's Gwen Stefani riding alongside him. Moby did nearly everything else himself: he wrote it, played it, sang it, recorded it, produced it and mixed it.

Stefani was on the song from the start, but production problems meant Moby left her vocals off the version that landed on Play; for the single, her voice was put back in. The beat comes from a sample of "What's Up Front That Counts" by the Counts, and the result is a loose-limbed, sun-dazed groove, electronic at the core but built to roll down the car window to.

It was never issued as a single in Europe or Australia, but in North America it became one of his biggest: his first song on the Billboard Hot 100, where it climbed to number 14, and a number three hit on the Canadian Singles Chart.

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