Where's Your Head At

"Where's Your Head At"
A drawing of an ostrich surrounded by glacial ice.
Single by Basement Jaxx
from the album Rooty
Released19 November 2001 (2001-11-19)
Genre
Length
  • 4:43 (album version)
  • 3:57 (single edit)
LabelXL
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx singles chronology
"Jus 1 Kiss"
(2001) 		"Where's Your Head At"
(2001) 		"Get Me Off"
(2002)

"Where's Your Head At" is a song by English electronic music duo Basement Jaxx. It was released as the third single from their second album, Rooty, on 19 November 2001. The song is based on samples from Gary Numan's songs "M.E." and "This Wreckage". The song peaked at number nine in Canada and the United Kingdom, number 16 in Australia, and number 39 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, the band's only charting single on a non-dance music chart in the United States. The song ranked at number 83 on Pitchfork Media's list of the "Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s".[4]

  1. ^ a b Pitchfork Staff (2 October 2009). "The 200 Best Albums of the 2000s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 29 April 2023. ...grotesquely snarling Gary Numan-gone-rave drones ('Where's Your Head At')...
  2. ^ a b Browne, David (29 June 2001). "Rooty (2001) by Basement Jaxx Review". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 6 July 2007. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  3. ^ Bush, John. Basement Jaxx - Rooty (2001): Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  4. ^ "Pitchfork: Staff Lists: The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s: 100-51". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 22 August 2009.