The 15th is a song from the 1979 album 154

154 (album)

154 is the third album from the band Wire, released in 1979 on EMI imprint Harvest Records in the UK and Europe and Warner Bros. Records in America. It was first issued on CD in 1987 by EMI Japan and later reissued by Restless Records in 1989...

by the English rock

English Rock

English Rock is a rock outcrop near the foot of the western slope of Mount Frakes, in the Crary Mountains, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photography, 1959-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Claude L....

 band Wire

Wire (band)

Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman , Graham Lewis , Bruce Gilbert , and Robert Gotobed...

. It was written by Colin Newman

Colin Newman

Colin Newman is an English musician, record producer and record label owner.-Biography:Newman is a member of the rock band Wire. When the band temporarily split in 1980, Newman pursued a solo career. His first solo LP, A-Z, was released in 1980 on the Beggar's Banquet label...

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Fischerspooner cover

Electroclash

Electroclash

Electroclash is a style of music that fuses New Wave and electronic dance music. It emerged in New York and Detroit in the later 1990s, pioneered by acts including I-F and those associated with Gerald Donald, and is associated with acts including Peaches, Adult, and Fischerspooner...

 band Fischerspooner

Fischerspooner

Fischerspooner is an electroclash duo and performance troupe formed in 1998 in New York. The name is a portmanteau of the founders' last names, Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner...

 covered The 15th as the second single from their debut album #1

1 (Fischerspooner album)

#1 is the first full length album by electroclash duo Fischerspooner released in 2001. The album originally received a limited run on International Deejay Gigolos Records, and contained "The 15th", a cover of a Wire song from their album 154. #1 has been re-pressed several times with a different...

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Charts

Chart (2003)	Peak Position
U.S. Hot Dance Club Songs	21

Other cover versions

The Jay Reatard

Jay Reatard

Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr. , better known by the stage name Jay Reatard, was an American musician from Memphis, Tennessee. Lindsey was signed to Matador Records...

 project Angry Angles covered the song on their Apparent-Transparent 7". Additionally, Beck

Beck

Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...

 has played the song live a couple of times. French coldwave band Little Nemo covered the song on their 1990 EP "Cadavres Exquis". For the Wire tribute album Whore, the song was recorded by Mike Watt

Mike Watt

Michael David Watt is an American bassist, singer and songwriter.He is best known for co-founding the rock bands Minutemen, dos, and Firehose; , he is also the bassist for the reunited Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/punk/improv group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen...

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