Big Sur (The Thrills song)

"Big Sur"
Single by the Thrills
from the album So Much for the City
B-side"No-One Likes to Be Upstaged"
Released9 June 2003 (2003-06-09)[1]
RecordedOctober 2002–March 2003
Studio
  • Sound Factory (Los Angeles)
  • Strongroom (London, England)
  • Area 51 (Dublin, Ireland)
Length3:07
LabelVirgin
Composer(s)The Thrills
Lyricist(s)Conor Deasy
Producer(s)Tony Hoffer
The Thrills singles chronology
"One Horse Town"
(2003) 		"Big Sur"
(2003) 		"Don't Steal Our Sun"
(2003)

"Big Sur" is the third single released by Irish band the Thrills, taken from their debut album, So Much for the City (2003). The song contains elements from the 1966 song "(Theme from) The Monkees".[2] "Big Sur" was released on 9 June 2003 and reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the most successful single release from the band. In their home country, the song reached number nine, giving them their second top-10 single, after "One Horse Town".[3] Elsewhere, the song reached number 44 in Italy and number 55 in the Netherlands.

  1. ^ "New Releases – For Week Starting 9 June 2003: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 7 June 2003. p. 23. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
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