“Battle-Flag” by Pigeonhed

Pigeonhed, an American band working the funk-rock side of the street, first put out "Battle-Flag" in 1997 on their album The Full Sentence. The version that broke through came a year later, when the British big beat outfit Lo Fidelity Allstars remixed it for Flash Bulb Emergency Overflow Cavalcade of Remixes, a Pigeonhed remix set with a title that could have used an editor.

Billed as Lo Fidelity Allstars featuring Pigeonhed, that remix hit the shops in November 1998 and turned up on the Allstars' own How to Operate with a Blown Mind, and both acts share the writing credit. Britain gave it a polite nod, a peak of 36 on the singles chart, but American alternative radio went for it in a big way, pushing it to 6 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.

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