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| "Join Our Club" | ||||
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| Single by Saint Etienne | ||||
| from the album So Tough | ||||
| A-side | "People Get Real" | |||
| B-side | "Scene 93" | |||
| Released | May 1992 | |||
| Genre | House, dance pop | |||
| Length | 3:17 | |||
| Label | Heavenly Records - HVN15 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Stanley/Wiggs | |||
| Saint Etienne singles chronology | ||||
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"Join Our Club" is a song by English musical group Saint Etienne, released by Heavenly Records in May 1992 as a double-A side with "People Get Real".
Saint Etienne wrote the song after the label refused to release "People Get Real" as a single. The band deliberately tried to write the most commercial song they could, and it ultimately reached number 21 in the UK Top 40.[1] The lyric alludes to a number of other songs, some recent hits at the time it was written (e.g. "Smells Like Teen Spirit", “Justified and Ancient,” “We Got a Love Thang”), others older favourites of the group (including Stevie Wonder's "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" - coincidentally, a hit cover version for Incognito the following month - and The Lovin' Spoonful's "Do You Believe in Magic", which like "Join Our Club" itself is a celebration of the pleasure of listening to music, and whose title is used as a recurring hook).
In the UK, it was a between-album single, released between Foxbase Alpha and So Tough. "Join Our Club" appeared on the US version of So Tough (the announcer’s intro mention the “Chicken Soup Mix” with a chuckle), while "People Get Real" appeared on the US release of Foxbase Alpha. Both later were included on You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone, a b-side collection in the UK.
In 2001, "Join Our Club" was remixed for its inclusion on Smash The System: Singles and More as the original sounded too 'muddy'. This version also appears on the 2005 version of the same album and London Conversations.