“Out of Control” by The Chemical Brothers

"Out of Control" is the Chemical Brothers calling in guest stars, the third single cut from Surrender (1999), the duo's third album. New Order's Bernard Sumner sings lead and plays the guitar, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie adds backing vocals, and Sumner shares the writing credit with Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. The duo produced it themselves, with Steve Dub engineering.

It stopped at 21 on the UK Singles Chart but went all the way to number one on the UK Dance Chart. The W.I.Z.-directed video casts Rosario Dawson and Michel Brown in a Mexican clash between government forces and Zapatista rebels that turns out to be a commercial for a fake cola, on show in an electronics shop until the storefront gets smashed in and it all ends in shaky handheld footage of riots.

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