Star Guitar

Infobox Single
Name = Star Guitar


Artist = The Chemical Brothers
from Album = Come With Us
Released = 2002
Format = CD, 7"
Recorded = 2002
Genre = House
Length = 6 mins 27 secs
Label = Virgin Records
Writer = ?
Producer = ?
[ Certification = ]
Chart position = * #8 (UK)
Last single = "It Began in Afrika"
(2001)
This single = "Star Guitar"
(2002)
Next single = "Come with Us/The Test"
(2002)

"Star Guitar" is the second single from The Chemical Brothers 2002 album "Come with Us". The song reached #8 in the UK charts.

tructure

"Star Guitar" is approximately 126 beats per minute and in the key of B♭.

Video

The music video, directed by Michel Gondry, features what looks like a continuous shot filmed from the window of a speeding train passing through towns and countryside; however, the buildings and objects passing by appear exactly in time with the various beats and musical elements of the track. The video is based on DV footage Gondry shot while on vacation in France; the train ride (between Nîmes and Avignon) was shot ten different times during the day to get different light gradients. Gondry had experimented with a different version of the same effect in his video for Daft Punk's "Around the World", where he had represented each element of the music with a dancer.

Gondry actually plotted out the synchronization of the song on graph paper before creating the video, eventually "modelling" the scenery with oranges, forks, tapes, books, glasses and tennis shoes.

Tracklisting

CD Single – UK/Europe

# "Star Guitar (Edit)" – 4:00
# "Base 6" – 6:34
# "Star Guitar (Pete Heller's Expanded Mix)" – 8:30

CD Single – US/Japan

# "Star Guitar (Edit)" – 4:00
# "Star Guitar" – 6:55
# "Star Guitar (Pete Heller's Expanded Mix)" – 8:30
# "Star Guitar (Pete Heller's 3Dub)" – 7:23
# "Base 6" – 6:34

DVD Single – UK/Europe

# "Star Guitar (Edit)" – 4:00
# "Star Guitar" – 6:34
# "Star Guitar (Pete Heller's 3Dub)" – 7:23