Big Sur (The Thrills song)

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"Big Sur"
Big Sur (Song).jpg
Single by the Thrills
from the album So Much for the City
B-side "No-One Likes to Be Upstaged"
Released9 June 2003 (2003-06-09) [1]
RecordedOctober 2002–March 2003
Studio
  • Sound Factory (Los Angeles)
  • Strongroom (London, England)
  • Area 51 (Dublin, Ireland)
Length3:07
Label Virgin
Composer(s) The Thrills
Lyricist(s) Conor Deasy
Producer(s) Tony Hoffer
The Thrills singles chronology
"One Horse Town"
(2003)
"Big Sur"
(2003)
"Don't Steal Our Sun"
(2003)

"Big Sur" is the third single released by Irish band the Thrills, taken from their debut album, So Much for the City (2003). The song contains elements from the 1966 song "(Theme from) The Monkees". [2] "Big Sur" was released on 9 June 2003 and reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the most successful single release from the band. In their home country, the song reached number nine, giving them their second top-10 single, after "One Horse Town". [3] Elsewhere, the song reached number 44 in Italy and number 55 in the Netherlands.

Contents

Track listings

All tracks are written by the Thrills and Conor Deasy except "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me", written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr.

UK and European CD single [2]
No.TitleLength
1."Big Sur"3:07
2."No-One Likes to Be Upstaged"3:24
3."One Horse Town" (demo)3:12
4."Big Sur" (video)3:07
UK 7-inch single [4]
No.TitleLength
1."Big Sur"3:07
2."Your Love Is Like Las Vegas" (acoustic version)3:09
Australian CD single [5]
No.TitleLength
1."Big Sur"3:07
2."No-One Likes to Be Upstaged"3:24
3."One Horse Town" (demo)3:12
Japanese EP [6]
No.TitleLength
1."Big Sur" 
2."No-One Likes to Be Upstaged" 
3."Your Love Is Like Las Vegas" (acoustic version) 
4."Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" 
5."Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)" 

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the So Much for the City album booklet. [7]

Studios

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2003)Peak
position
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100) [8] 57
Ireland (IRMA) [3] 9
Italy (FIMI) [9] 44
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [10] 55
Scotland (OCC) [11] 12
UK Singles (OCC) [12] 17

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