"Only the Horses" | ||||
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Single by Scissor Sisters | ||||
from the album Magic Hour | ||||
Released | April 13, 2012 | |||
Recorded | 2011 | |||
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Length | 3:39 | |||
Label | Casablanca | |||
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"Only the Horses" is a song by American band Scissor Sisters. The track is the first single from their fourth studio album, Magic Hour . It premiered on April 6, 2012, on BBC Radio 1, and was released to various iTunes Stores as a single on April 13, 2012, in Europe and was released on May 13, 2012, in the United Kingdom.
Scissor Sisters worked with producers Boys Noize and Calvin Harris on the track, after having met Harris while working with Kylie Minogue on her eleventh studio album, Aphrodite . [1]
Directed by Lorenzo Fonda and produced by Ross Levine, [2] the music video for "Only the Horses" was released on April 19, 2012, and features a quartet of horses running through the desert in slow motion. Attached to the horses are long hempen ropes, and over the course of the video it becomes clear that the other ends of the ropes are attached to metal plates set in a decorated triangular panel. As the ropes run out of slack, the equestrian imagery is intercut with slow-motion reversed footage of paint cascading over people (the band members, with Jake Shears covered in pink, Del Marquis in yellow, BabyDaddy in green and Ana Matronic in blue). At the end of the video (quite evidently a homage to John Huston's, The Misfits ), the taut ropes pull the plates from the panel and fountains of paint shoot out. [3] [4]
Lewis Corner of Digital Spy blog gave the song a positive review, stating:
"Only the horses can find us tonight/ Only the horses can bring us back home," Jake Shears belts over Calvin's usual mix of gleeful synths and fluorescent beats, though still retaining much of the band's camp and carefree vibrancy from when we first fell in love with them. The result is much like the song's interesting choice of a saviour; a number that canters along powerfully enough to last the distance. . [5]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Only the Horses" | 3:39 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Only the Horses" | 3:43 |
2. | "Only the Horses" (Calvin Harris Extended Mix) | 4:32 |
3. | "Only the Horses" (Max Sanna and Steve Pitron Remix) | 7:27 |
4. | "Magic Hour Medley" | 4:29 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Only the Horses" (Max Sanna and Steve Pitron Remix) | 7:27 |
2. | "Only the Horses" (Tommie Sunshine Horsepower Remix) | 6:46 |
3. | "Only the Horses" (Louis Brodinski Remix) | 4:38 |
4. | "Only the Horses" (Cyantific and Dimension Remix) | 4:18 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Only the Horses" | 3:42 |
2. | "Only the Horses" (Calvin Harris Extended Mix) | 4:28 |
3. | "Only the Horses" (Max Sanna and Steve Pitron Mix Edit) | 3:48 |
4. | "Only the Horses" (Max Sanna and Steve Pitron Club Mix) | 7:23 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Only the Horses" (Max Sanna and Steve Pitron Club Remix) | 7:22 |
2. | "Only the Horses" (Max Sanna and Steve Pitron Radio Remix) | 3:46 |
3. | "Only the Horses" (Rich Morel Vocal) | 7:08 |
4. | "Only the Horses" (Tommie Sunshine Horsepower Remix) | 6:42 |
5. | "Only the Horses" (Kabuki Cheerleader Remix) | 6:16 |
6. | "Only the Horses" (Kabuki Cheerleader WAR Dub) | 5:46 |
7. | "Only the Horses" (Cyantific And Dimension Remix) | 4:18 |
Chart (2012) | Peak position |
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Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [7] | 37 |
Belgium Dance (Ultratop Flanders) [8] | 21 |
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Wallonia) [9] | 33 |
Global Dance Songs ( Billboard ) [10] | 34 |
Ireland (IRMA) [11] | 32 |
Italy (FIMI) [12] | 5 |
Japan (Japan Hot 100) [13] | 21 |
Scotland (OCC) [14] | 7 |
UK Singles (OCC) [15] | 12 |
US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [16] | 5 |
US Dance Singles Sales ( Billboard ) [17] | 8 |
Chart (2012) | Rank |
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Italy (FIMI) [18] | 33 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [19] | Gold | 900,000† |
Italy (FIMI) [20] | Platinum | 30,000* |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Country | Release date | Format | Label |
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Australia | April 13, 2012 | Single [21] | Polydor |
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Switzerland | |||
Australia | May 13, 2012 | EP [22] | |
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United States | May 15, 2012 |
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