"Our Velocity" is the first single from Our Earthly Pleasures

Our Earthly Pleasures

Our Earthly Pleasures is the second album by Newcastle-based Alternative rock band Maxïmo Park. It was released on 2 April 2007 in the UK , being preceded by the single "Our Velocity", released two weeks previously, on 19 March 2007.-Album information:Album details, including track listing, were...

, the second album from the band, Maxïmo Park

Maxïmo Park

Maxïmo Park are a British alternative rock band, formed in 2000. They are signed to Warp Records. The band consists of Paul Smith , Duncan Lloyd , Archis Tiku , Lukas Wooller and Tom English...

. The single was released two weeks prior to the release of the album, on 19 March 2007.

The video of the song features the band being multiplied in a white room while playing the song. It was directed by Nima Nourizadeh.

The song has been highly regarded and in VH1

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's "50 Greatest Songs of 2007 So Far" it placed at number 1.

The song became the band's first UK Top 10 single, reaching #9 on 25 March 2007 on the UK Singles Chart and #1 on the UK indie chart within a week of its physical release.

In August 2007, a segment of the song was used as the title music for the BBC

BBC

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 coverage of the Reading and Leeds Festival.

Teletext's music page Planet Sound

Planet Sound

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 named "Our Velocity" as the best single of 2007.

The song features in the 2007 video game Project Gotham Racing 4

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. The song was featured on Hollyoaks

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in 2007.
It is also featured in the 2009 music video game Guitar Hero: On Tour Modern Hits

Track listing

• CD:

1. "Our Velocity"
2. "Distance Makes"
3. "Mary O'Brien
   Dusty Springfield
   Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...
   
   "

• 7" #1 (white vinyl):

1. "Our Velocity"
2. "Pride Before A Fall"

• 7" #2 (red vinyl):

1. "Our Velocity"
2. "Robert Altman
   Robert Altman
   Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and...
   
   "

• 1st Week Only Download:

1. "Our Velocity" (Home Demo Version)
2. "Our Velocity" (First Live Performance)

External links

• "Our Velocity" music video at YouTube
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