Sitting Inside My Head

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"Sitting Inside My Head"
Sitting Inside My Head by Supergroove.jpg
Single by Supergroove
from the album Traction
B-side
  • "Five Word Headline"
Released1994
Studio York Street (Auckland) [1]
Genre Funk rock
Length3:29
Label BMG
Songwriter(s)
  • Joe Lonie
  • Karl Steven
Producer(s)
Supergroove singles chronology
"Can't Get Enough"
(1994)		"Sitting Inside My Head"
(1994)		"If I Had My Way"
(1996)

"Sitting Inside My Head" is a song by New Zealand funk rock band Supergroove from their debut studio album, Traction (1994). Released through BMG in 1994 as the album's fourth and final single, [2] [3] [4] [5] the track peaked at No. 6 on the New Zealand singles chart and became the 34th best-selling single of 1994 in the country.

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Composition and development

"Sitting Inside My Head" is a funk rock song written in the key of E major, [3] incorporating distorted horns and lead vocals by Che Fu. [2] Karl Steven, the song's co-writer and co-producer, has described its initial form without Che Fu's contribution as "quite bad." However, after the latter successfully asked to contribute to the song during its recording session, it grew to become Steven's favourite Supergroove song. [6] Band member Joe Lonie directed a music video to accompany the track, which includes footage of Che Fu (and the rest of the band) recorded on a North Shore beach, as well as walking down Queen Street. [4]

Track listing

New Zealand cassette single [5]

  1. "Sitting Inside My Head"
  2. "The Pheoiajuwon"
  3. "Five Word Headline"

Australian CD single [1]

  1. "Sitting Inside My Head"
  2. "The Pheoiajuwon"
  3. "Five Word Headline"
  4. "The Version Remix"

Personnel

Supergroove [1] [5]

Additional personnel [1]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1994)Peak
position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [7] 6

Year-end charts

Chart (1994)Position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [8] 34

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Sitting Inside My Head (CD single liner notes). Supergroove. Australia: BMG. 1994. 74321 216 892.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. 1 2 Shute, Gareth (19 July 2013). "Supergroove". AudioCulture. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  3. 1 2 Hoyes, Mat (3 October 2024). "Counting the Beat: Sitting Inside My Head by Supergroove". AudioCulture. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Sitting Inside My Head". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 "Sitting inside my head / Supergroove". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  6. ↑ "Che Fu on Supergroove: 'We were like a nerdy club of sorts'". Radio New Zealand. 5 April 2025. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  7. ↑ "Supergroove – Sitting Inside My Head". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  8. ↑ "End of Year Top 50 Singles (1994)". Official Aotearoa Music Charts. Recorded Music NZ . Retrieved 16 April 2025.
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