"Battle Flag" | ||||
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Single by Lo Fidelity Allstars featuring Pigeonhed | ||||
from the album How to Operate with a Blown Mind | ||||
Released | November 16, 1998 February 12, 1999 (US 12") May 2, 2000 (Import re-release) | |||
Recorded | 1997 | |||
Length | 5:57(original Pigeonhed version) 5:39 (Lo Fidelity Allstars remix) 4:00 (single edit) | |||
Label | Skint, Columbia | |||
Songwriter(s) | Pigeonhed | |||
Producer(s) | Lo Fidelity Allstars | |||
Lo Fidelity Allstars featuring Pigeonhed singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Battle Flag" on YouTube |
"Battle Flag" (or "Battleflag") is a 1997 song by American funk rock band Pigeonhed which appeared on their 1997 album The Full Sentence . In 1998,the song was remixed by the British big beat group Lo Fidelity Allstars for the Pigeonhed remix album Flash Bulb Emergency Overflow Cavalcade of Remixes.
The "Battleflag" remix,credited to "Lo Fidelity Allstars (featuring Pigeonhed)" was issued as a single in November 1998 and appeared on Lo Fidelity Allstars' album How to Operate with a Blown Mind . Although the song was a minor hit in the United Kingdom,reaching No. 36 on the UK Singles Chart, [1] it was a major hit on American alternative rock radio and reached No. 6 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. [2]
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