System Overload (song)

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"System Overload"
Single by The Datsuns
from the album Smoke & Mirrors
Released2006
Genre Rock and roll
Length2:31
Label Hellsquad
Songwriter(s) Dolf de Borst, Christian Livingstone, Matt Osment, Phil Somervell
The Datsuns singles chronology
"Stuck Here for Days"
(2006)
"System Overload"
(2006)

"System Overload" is a garage rock song by New Zealand rock and roll band The Datsuns. It is the second single released from the album Smoke & Mirrors . It was released on both vinyl and compact disc in 2006.

The song is typical of the Datsuns style with loud guitar, a lead break and dominant vocals.

In 2013, the song was used in the video game Saints Row IV in the fictional in-game radio station Generation X.

Track listing

  1. "System Overload"
  2. "Don't shine your light on me"
  3. "Killer Bees"


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