Dashboard (song)

"Dashboard"
Single by Modest Mouse
from the album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
B-side	"King Rat"
Released	January 16, 2007 (2007-01-16)
Genre	Indie rock
Length	4:06
Label	Epic
Songwriter(s)	Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, Eric Judy, Joe Plummer, Johnny Marr, Tom Peloso
Producer(s)	Dennis Herring
Modest Mouse singles chronology
"The World at Large" (2005) "Dashboard" (2007) "King Rat" (2007)
Alternative cover
iTunes digital release
Music video
"Dashboard" on YouTube

"Dashboard" is a song by American indie rock band Modest Mouse and is the second track on their 2007 album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. The song was released as the first single from that album and peaked at number 5 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. It debuted and peaked at #61 in the Billboard Hot 100 in early February 2007.^[1] In late May 2007, the song was released as a single in the United Kingdom with "King Rat" as the B-side. This single coincided with the band's UK tour.^[2] This song was #87 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.^[3]

Members of Modest Mouse's e-mail list were sent a link of the finished track on January 3, 2007 and the song was released to American radio stations on January 16.^[4] The lyric, "The dashboard melted but we still have the radio" references Planes, Trains and Automobiles when Del (John Candy) is telling the police officer about the car after it is burned.^{[citation needed]}