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“House of Jealous Lovers” by The Rapture

From the EP Insound Tour Support Series No. 19 (2001)

“House of Jealous Lovers” by The Rapture appears on 19 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2003 and 2025. It was first released in 2001 on the EP Insound Tour Support Series No. 19. Its best result is #35 on the CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #265 alternative song of 2003 and #4,058 alternative song of all time.

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8stations

#35best position

0#1 finishes

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2003–2025years charted

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"House of Jealous Lovers" is where the Rapture turned the dance floor into a mosh pit. Luke Jenner, Vito Roccoforte and Mattie Safer wrote it, and James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy of DFA produced it, with a clear plan to slip a guitar band into the crates of dance music distributors. It worked: the lead single for their album Echoes became DFA's best-selling single and helped drag dance-punk back into the light, all yelping vocals, spiky guitar and a disco beat hammered like a nail.

It went out through DFA in the US and Output Recordings in the UK, with a video steeped in punk imagery, and got a second release in 2003. In Britain it peaked at number 27. The critics came round in force: Pitchfork put it 16th among the decade's tracks and NME ranked it sixth.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

#2,881 of all time

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2003	93	Live 105 San Francisco, CA	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2003	106
2003	35	CD101 Columbus, OH	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2003	101

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2003	1941	CD101	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)	2004
2004	1942	CD101	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)	2005
2005	425	WOXY 97X	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005)	500
2005	1930	CD101	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)	1994
2006	431	WOXY 97X	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006)	499
2007	1736	CD101	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)	2008
2008	1764	CD101	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)	2009
2009	1779	CD101	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)	2010
2010	1823	CD101	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)	2011
2011	1835	CD101	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)	2011
2013	1885	CD101	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)	2012
2013	75	BBC Radio 6 Music	BBC 6 Music 100 Best Tracks Of The Last 10 Years	100
2013	816	WXPN	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)	885
2014	1959	CD101	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)	2013
2019	547	KEXP	KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time	627
2024	533	The Colorado Sound	The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century	1055
2025	649	90.9 The Bridge	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century	909

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