For the Damaged Coda

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"For the Damaged Coda"
Song by Blonde Redhead
from the album Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
ReleasedJune 6, 2000 (2000-06-06)
Studio Bear Creek Studio (Woodinville, Washington)
Genre Indie rock
Length2:37
Label Touch & Go
Songwriter(s)
  • Kazu Makino
  • Amedeo Pace
  • Simone Pace
Producer(s)
Music video
"For the Damaged Coda" on YouTube

"For the Damaged Coda" is a song written and performed by American indie rock band Blonde Redhead. It was released on June 6, 2000 via Touch and Go Records as the eleventh and final track on their fifth studio album Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons .

Contents

The song, a continuation of "For the Damaged," is based on Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne in F minor, Op. 55, No. 1, [1] and gained renewed exposure on April 7, 2014 when it was used in Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind , an episode of the animated television series Rick and Morty , as "Evil Morty's Theme Song", the theme for the character "Evil Morty" Smith. [2] It has since become an internet meme, [3] also being included in The Rick And Morty Soundtrack . The song was sampled in B.o.B.'s 2017 song "BoBiverse". [4]

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 15

YouTube

A video with album cover art was first uploaded to YouTube on February 5, 2008, and has over 49 million views as of October, 2023. [6] The official upload from October 24, 2017 has nearly 2 million views. [7]

Personnel

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References

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