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“Let's Dance To Joy Division” by Wombats
From the album A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation (2007)
“Let's Dance To Joy Division” by Wombats appears on 9 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2007 and 2022. It was first released in 2007 on the album A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation. Its best result is #12 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2007. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #151 alternative song of 2008 and #6,710 alternative song of all time.
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"Let's Dance to Joy Division" was the second single from the Wombats' debut album A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation in 2007, and the joke is right there in the title. Matthew Murphy built it out of a boozy night at Le Bateau, a club in the band's hometown of Liverpool, where he and the girlfriend of the time ended up dancing on a table to "Love Will Tear Us Apart". The song chews on the absurdity of bopping with glee to a famously miserable record.
Murphy wrote the words, and the music is credited to him, Dan Haggis and Tord Øverland-Knudsen. Stephen Harris produced with the band and Rich Costey mixed, with a choir from Llangattock primary school joining in on backing vocals. It became one of their signature songs and the theme to BBC Three's Scallywagga, and the seven-inch hid a bonus: Knudsen singing the Postman Pat theme in Norwegian.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 12 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2007 | 100 |
| 2008 | 41 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2008 | 50 |
| 2008 | 94 | KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA | KSLG Top 94 of 2008 | 94 |
| 2008 | 13 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2008 | 136 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 1843 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1892 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1974 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 74 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years (2013) | 100 |
| 2022 | 762 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
Also listed as: Let's Dance to Joy Division; Let's dance to joy division.
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