The Nosebleed Section

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"The Nosebleed Section"
Single by Hilltop Hoods
from the album The Calling
Released2003
Genre Australian hip hop
Length3:40
Label Obese Records
Songwriter(s) Matthew David Lambert, Daniel Howe Smith, Barry John M. Francis (DJ Debris), Melanie Safka
Producer(s) Hilltop Hoods
Hilltop Hoods singles chronology
"Dumb Enough"
(2003)		"The Nosebleed Section"
(2003)		"Clown Prince"
(2006)

"The Nosebleed Section" is a song by the Australian hip hop music group Hilltop Hoods. It was released as a radio single in 2003, and was the final single release from their 2003 album The Calling . The chorus and backing beat of "The Nosebleed Section" are sampled from the song "People in the Front Row" written and sung by Melanie Safka from her 1972 album Garden in the City . [1] Furthermore, the lyric “This life turned out nothing like I had planned” Is an interpolation of Australian rock band Powderfinger’s 1999 song “These Days”.

Contents

The lyrics of the song deal with upbeat themes of parties, concerts, good times and living the high life involved in an MC's career. Matt Lambert (MC Suffa) said, "That was definitely a turning point for us. When Triple J started playing it, that was our break. We started getting a lot of festival gigs, show offers, stuff like that." [2]

The song placed at number 9 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2003. [3]

In 2009, it was voted Number 17 in the Hottest 100 of All Time, and in 2013 it was voted Number 4 in the Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years, making it the highest-placed Australian song and the highest-placed hip-hop song in both countdowns as well as the highest-placed song from the 21st century in the former despite never being released as a physical single. [4] [5]

The song appeared on the Channel 9 police drama Stingers . [6]

Sampling

Suffa found a copy of Melanie's Garden in the City album at a thrift store in South Australia. "What attracted me to it was it was 50 cents and I'd never heard of it before," he said. The group initially sampled Melanie's song without permission. "We didn't clear it because we didn't know it was going to be a thing. Then we tried to clear it and it turned out her publishing had been sold several times and there were fights over who owned it. Then we finally got it cleared maybe a decade later."

Suffa eventually met Melanie when she toured Australia in 2014. [7] "She actually invited me to come down, which was lovely. She played the song, I'm not sure if she always played the song [in her setlist]. In Australia she'd be more inclined to play it. She played it and I got a shout-out, she called me cheeky for sampling it without clearing it. I met her backstage and she was lovely," he reminisced after her passing in 2024. [8]

Charts

Chart performance
Chart (2009–2010)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [9] 85
Chart (2015)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [10] 92
Chart (2021)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [11] 75

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [12] 10× Platinum700,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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  3. ↑ "Triple J Hottest 100 2003". Triple J . Retrieved 13 July 2009.
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  6. ↑ Coleman, Tim (21 July 2006). "Gold in them thar hills". Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 13 July 2009.
  7. ↑ https://m.facebook.com/hilltophoods/photos/so-today-i-saw-melanie-live-in-1972-she-released-a-song-called-people-in-the-fro/10152237019566359/ [ bare URL ]
  8. ↑ "Hilltop Hoods remember Melanie, the late folk singer sampled on 'The Nosebleed Section'". Double J. 9 February 2024. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
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