Standing in the Way of Control (song)

"Standing in the Way of Control"
Single insert artwork by Kim Gordon
Single by Gossip
from the album Standing in the Way of Control
Released2005 (Le Tigre remix)
2006 (CD and vinyl single)
March 5, 2007 (re-release)
Genre
Length
  • 4:16 (album version)
  • 3:28 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Hannah Billie
  • Nathan Howdeshell
  • Mary Beth Patterson
Producer(s)
Gossip singles chronology
"Standing in the Way of Control"
(2005) 		"Listen Up!"
(2006)

"Standing in the Way of Control" is the debut single by American indie rock band Gossip from the album of the same name. The remix by Le Tigre was released in 2005, the original was then released as a single in 2006, and was re-released again on February 26, 2007. The 2006 issue had climbed up to number 13 on the UK Singles Chart in early 2007 on download sales, but the 2007 re-release was under a new catalogue number, meaning that their six-place climb to number seven on March 4 was listed as a new entry rather than as a climber. On the UK Indie Chart, it reached the top spot for one week.

The Soulwax Nite Versions remix of the song featured heavily in the advertising campaign for the 2007 E4 television drama, Skins. This version is also on the series' soundtrack album. Kim Gordon, bassist of Sonic Youth, contributed the cover art for the single. Brace Paine asked her to contribute her handwriting to the album as he had appreciated her "punk rock font" he once saw on an old UT flier.

In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Standing in the Way of Control" at number 23 in its list of the "50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever". In October 2011, NME placed it at number 34 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".[2] In 2009, Pitchfork placed the song at number 429 on its list "Top 500 Greatest Tracks of the 2000s".[3]

  1. ^ Rolling Stone Staff (June 17, 2011). "100 Best Songs of the 2000s". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 4, 2022. Beth Ditto claims that what she's hollering about on this urgent, irresistible disco-punk anthem is gay marriage...
  2. ^ "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". NME. October 6, 2011.
  3. ^ "Lists & Guides: The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s: 500-201". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on October 13, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2016.