Float On

Float On

Infobox Single
Name = Float On

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Artist = Modest Mouse
from Album = Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Released = February 14, 2004
Format = CD
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 3:28
Label = Epic Records
Producer = Dennis Herring
Last single = "Whenever You See Fit"
(1998)
This single = "Float On"
(2004)
Next single = "Ocean Breathes Salty"
(2004)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Type = studio
prev_track = "The World at Large"
prev_no = 2
this_track = "Float On"
track_no = 3
next_track = "Ocean Breathes Salty"
next_no = 4
__NOTOC__"Float On" is a single released by indie rock band Modest Mouse. It had also appeared on their album "Good News for People Who Love Bad News". The song was released on February 14, 2004 and was the first Modest Mouse song to gain mainstream popularity. Nearly a half year after its release, it became the band's first #1 hit on the "Billboard" Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Track listing

The following tracks appeared on the single:
# "Float On" – 3:32
# "I've Got It All (Most)" – 3:06

In popular culture

*This song was covered by Australian artist Ben Lee for the 2006 motion picture "John Tucker Must Die", and again by indie band Goldspot for the of "The OC", released on December 5, 2006.

*This song is also featured in "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Polkarama!" on the album "Straight Outta Lynwood".

*On March 14, 2007 the song was used in a segment on American Idol that served as an advertisement for the Ford Motor Company. Idol producers later confirmed that the segment was actually based on the Kidz Bop cover of the song.

*The song was also used as pro-snowboarder Travis Rice's profile song in the Absinthe Movies film "POP".
*Part of the song is used in the snobots remix of mc chris song "Ten Year Old".
*It is a playable track on Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour.


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