| "Dashboard" | ||||
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| Single by Modest Mouse | ||||
| from the album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | ||||
| B-side | "King Rat" | |||
| Released | January 16, 2007 | |||
| 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 | |||
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| "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]
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