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“What You Know” by Two Door Cinema Club
From the album Tourist History (2010)
“What You Know” by Two Door Cinema Club appears on 17 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 2010 and 2025. It was first released in 2010 on the album Tourist History. Its best result is #3 on the WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #50 alternative song of 2011, #3,856 alternative song of all time and #173 of the '10s.
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"What You Know" closed out the run of singles from Tourist History, the 2010 debut that introduced Northern Ireland's Two Door Cinema Club on Kitsuné, going out as the fifth and last of them in February 2011. Alex Trimble, Kevin Baird and Sam Halliday wrote it together, and Eliot James produced and mixed it, keeping the guitars bright and twitchy and the drums skipping along as if the whole thing were built for a sweaty indie dance floor.
The video, directed by Lope Serrano of the Barcelona collective Canada, turns a troupe of Spanish dancers loose and tips its hat to Blur's "Country House" along the way. The song kept finding second lives after that, in TV commercials in Indonesia in 2014 and behind the weather report on Chilean television.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 31 | KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA | KSLG Top 94 Slugtunez of 2010 | 94 |
| 2011 | 3 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2011 | 101 |
| 2011 | 21 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102 Songs of 2011 | 102 |
| 2011 | 90 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON | 102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2011 | 102 |
| 2011 | 44 | ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA | Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2011 | 51 |
| 2011 | 57 | KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA | KSLG Top 94 Slugtracks of 2011 | 94 |
| 2011 | 54 | 94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY | 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2011 | 94 |
| 2011 | 30 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2011 | 88 |
| 2011 | 41 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2011 | 103 |
| 2011 | 17 | 90.5 WERG Erie, PA | WERG Top 90 of 2011 | 90 |
| 2011 | 75 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2011 | 98 |
| 2011 | 16 | 89.9 WLCA St. Louis, MO | WLCA Top 89 of 2011 | 89 |
| 2011 | 55 | WBRU Providence, RI | WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2011 | 96 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1370 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1108 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1164 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
| 2025 | 551 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
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