Don't Lose Touch

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"Don't Lose Touch"
Against Me! - Don't Lose Touch cover.jpg
Single by Against Me!
from the album Searching for a Former Clarity
A-side "Don't Lose Touch" (Mouse on Mars remix)
B-side "Don't Lose Touch"
ReleasedSeptember 6, 2005
RecordedApril 18–May 16, 2005
Studio The Magpie Cage in Baltimore
Genre Punk rock
Length7:31
Label Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 701)
Songwriter(s) Laura Jane Grace, James Bowman, Warren Oakes, Andrew Seward
Producer(s) J. Robbins
Against Me! singles chronology
"Sink, Florida, Sink"
(2005)
"Don't Lose Touch"
(2005)
"From Her Lips to God's Ears (The Energizer)"
(2006)

"Don't Lose Touch" is a song by the Gainesville, Florida-based punk rock band Against Me!, released as the first single from their 2005 album Searching for a Former Clarity . Like the second single "From Her Lips to God's Ears (The Energizer)", it was released exclusively on twelve-inch vinyl with a remixed version of the song as the A-side and the album version as the B-side. The A-side version was remixed by German electronic music duo Mouse on Mars. The single was limited to 3,050 copies. [1]

Contents

The music video for "Don't Lose Touch" was directed by Philip Andelman. [2] It depicts the band performing the song in a rehearsal and storage space, with parts shown in reverse. [3] [4]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Laura Jane Grace; all music is composed by Against Me!

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Don't Lose Touch" (Mouse on Mars remix)4:33
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Don't Lose Touch"2:55
Total length:7:31

Personnel

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