If You Keep Losing Sleep

Infobox Single
Name = If You Keep Losing Sleep


Artist = Silverchair
from Album = Young Modern
Released = 9 October 2007
Format = Digital download, CD single
Recorded = 2006
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:20
Label =
Producer = Nick Launay
David Bottrill
Daniel Johns
Last single = "Reflections of a Sound"
(2007)
This single = "If You Keep Losing Sleep"
(2007)
Next single = "Mind Reader"
(2008)"If You Keep Losing Sleep" is a song by Australian band Silverchair from their fifth album "Young Modern", released on 9 October 2007. [cite web|url=http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7522924/a/If+You+Keep+Losing+Sleep.htm|title=If you Keep Losing Sleep|publisher=CDUniverse|accessdate=2007-12-07] It is the third single in Australia released from the album. It will be released worldwide as the second single as "Reflections of a Sound" was only available in Australia. On September 30, the band performed the song live on the talk-show Rove, hosted by Rove McManus, taking elements from the song's video and bringing them into the performance. "If You Keep Losing Sleep" peaked at 16 on the official ARIA single charts in Australia.

Music video

The music video for the single premiered on Channel Seven's Sunrise program, on August 28, 2007. It was directed by Damon Escott and Stephen Lance and producer Leanne Tonkes, who also created the Reflections of a Sound video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPApe_icyn8] . The band described the video as their most "electrifying" video ever made, in reference to the lightning bolt special effects throughout the video.

The visual effects in the clip were produced by Brisbane-based visual effects company Liquid VFX (a division of the internationally successful animation company Liquid Animation) [http://www.liquidvfx.com] .

Escott and Lance describe the clip as "Busby Berkley meets Frankenstein. A demented toy box of Broadway horror".

Molly Meldrum described it as "the best video I’ve seen from Australia ever" while discussing music with David Koch and Mel on Sunrise in August 2007. [http://theguildfilm.com/movies/damon-and-stephen/silverchair/MollyReviewSunrise290807.mov]

In its first week on YouTube, the video rated #88 in the most discussed music clips of that week. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgb9iqO_pv4]

Track listing

Australia CD Single (ELEVENCD76)
# "If You Keep Losing Sleep"
# "We're Not Lonely But We Miss You"
# "Barbarella"

Australian iTunes Single
# "If You Keep Losing Sleep"
# "We're Not Lonely But We Miss You"
# "Barbarella"
# "Hide Under Your Tongue"

Charts

References