Destroy Everything You Touch

"Destroy Everything You Touch"
Single by Ladytron
from the album Witching Hour
Released	2005 22 October 2007 (re-release)
Format	CD single, 7", 12"
Recorded	2004–2005
Genre	New Wave, electropop, shoegazing
Length	4:36 (album version) 3:52 (radio edit)
Label	Island
Writer(s)	Ladytron
Producer	Ladytron, Jim Abbiss
Ladytron singles chronology
"Sugar" (2005) "Destroy Everything You Touch" (2005) "Ghosts" (2008)
Music video "Destroy Everything You Touch" on YouTube

"Destroy Everything You Touch" is the second single from the album Witching Hour by electronic music band Ladytron.^[1] It reached a position of #42 on the UK Singles Chart, the highest position a Ladytron single has reached to date. It was re-released in the UK on 22 October 2007.

Track listing

CD single, UK (2005)^[2]

1. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (single version) – 3:52
2. "Seventeen '05" – 7:18

7" limited edition, UK (2005)^[3]

1. "Destroy Everything You Touch" – 4:21
2. "Citadel" – 3:40

Maxi CD enhanced, UK (2005)^[4]

1. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (single version) – 3:52
2. "Nothing to Hide" – 3:49
3. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (Playgroup Vocal Edit) – 5:25
4. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (Hot Chip Remix Edit) – 6:50
5. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (music video)

7", 1/2, UK (2007)^[5]

1. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (radio edit)
2. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (Hot Chip Remix)

7", 2/2, UK (2007)^[6]

1. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (radio edit)
2. "Soft Power" (Vicarious Bliss Gutter Mix)

Maxi CD, Germany (2007)^[7]

1. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (single version) – 3:52
2. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (Playgroup Version) – 7:47
3. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (Hot Chip Remix) – 7:12
4. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (Vector Lovers Remix) – 7:56

Maxi CD, UK (2007)^[8]

1. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (radio edit) – 3:50
2. "International Dateline" (Simian Mobile Disco Remix) – 5:18
3. "International Dateline" – 4:16
4. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (White Heat On the Money Edit) – 4:18

12", UK^[9]

1. "Destroy Everything You Touch" (Sasha Invol2ver Remix)

Music video

The music video shows the members of Ladytron hiking through a mountain range, facing various hazards such as two-legged creatures attempting to attack them, and having frosty wind blown at them by faces in the mountains (which are the members of Ladytron, with makeup added to them to make their skin look covered with snow and ice).

Cultural appearances

"Destroy Everything You Touch" is featured on the video game 2006 FIFA World Cup. It is one of the many EA Trax that appear in the game.

The song also appears in the 2007 film Smiley Face, and in the 2008 film One Missed Call. It was also used in the 2009 film Mammoth, and for its trailer.

It also appears in the 2008 Vogue magazine documentary The September Issue, and its trailer.

Remixes

The single has been remixed by Sasha for his mix/remix album Invol2ver. On 19 May 2009, a cover version by The Faint was released on an iTunes single entitled "The Faint/Ladytron Tour – Single" (with Ladytron contributing a remix of The Faint's "Mirror Error").

References

1. ^ http://www.discogs.com/Ladytron-Destroy-Everything-You-Touch/master/51759
2. ^ http://www.discogs.com/Ladytron-Destroy-Everything-You-Touch/release/534521
3. ^ http://www.discogs.com/Ladytron-Destroy-Everything-You-Touch/release/533408
4. ^ http://www.discogs.com/Ladytron-Destroy-Everything-You-Touch/release/550521
5. ^ http://www.discogs.com/Ladytron-Destroy-Everything-You-Touch/release/1127661
6. ^ http://www.discogs.com/Ladytron-Destroy-Everything-You-Touch/release/1120075
7. ^ http://www.discogs.com/Ladytron-Destroy-Everything-You-Touch/release/950696
8. ^ http://www.discogs.com/Ladytron-Destroy-Everything-You-Touch/release/1135924
9. ^ http://www.discogs.com/Ladytron-Destroy-Everything-You-Touch/release/1589959