We Share Our Mothers' Health

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"We Share Our Mothers' Health"
Mothers health.jpg
Single by The Knife
from the album Silent Shout
ReleasedMay 2006 (Sweden)
24 July 2006 (UK)
September 25, 2006 (US)
Genre
Label Rabid
Songwriter(s) The Knife
Producer(s) The Knife
The Knife singles chronology
"Marble House"
(2006)
"We Share Our Mothers' Health"
(2006)
"Like a Pen"
(2006)
Music video
"We Share Our Mothers' Health" on YouTube

"We Share Our Mothers' Health" is a song by Swedish electronic music duo The Knife from their third studio album, Silent Shout (2006). It was released in May 2006 as the album's third single. Pitchfork Media ranked it at number fourteen on The Top 100 Tracks of 2006. [1]

Contents

Music video

The music video for the song is an animated video directed and animated by Motomichi Nakamura. It is available online, on the enhanced US CD single, and on the Silent Shout: An Audio Visual Experience CD/DVD. Motomichi wrote about the video, "The animation starts with a girl that wakes up from a long sleep and starts searching for a sacred apple. At the end of a nightmarish story the girl is able to find her apple but only to discover the real price that she has to pay for it."[ citation needed ]

Track listings

  1. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Radio Edit)" - 3:32
  2. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Trentemøller Remix)" - 8:01
  3. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Original Version)" - 4:09
  1. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Radio Edit)" - 3:34
  2. "Kino (Live)" - 5:13
  3. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Trentemøller Remix)" - 8:02
  1. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Original Version)" - 4:14
  2. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Trentemøller Remix)" - 8:03
  3. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Radio Slave's Secret Base Remix)" - 9:02
  4. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Ratatat Remix)" - 4:02
  1. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Radio Edit)" - 3:28
  2. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Ratatat Remix)" - 3:55
  1. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Trentemøller Remix)" - 7:58
  2. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Album Version)" - 4:06
  3. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Radio Slave's Secret Base Remix)" - 8:57
  1. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Trentemøller Remix)" - 7:58
  2. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Album Version)" - 4:06
  3. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Radio Slave's Secret Base Remix)" - 8:57
  1. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Radio Edit)" - 3:35
  2. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Trentemøller Remix)" - 8:04
  3. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Radioslave Remix)" - 9:03
  4. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Album Version)" - 4:13
  5. "Kino (Live)" - 5:11
  6. "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Music Video)"

Charts

Chart (2006)Peak
Position
UK Singles Chart [9] 85
U.S. Hot Dance Singles Sales [10] 18

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