Canned Heat (song)
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"Canned Heat" is the second single from British funk group
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's fourth studio album, ''
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'' (1999). Released on 24 May 1999, it became their second number-one single on the US Dance Club Play chart and peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart. The
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was directed by
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.


Release

Over the numerous releases of the "Canned Heat" single, two B-sides exist. "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" is a funky instrumental that features an intro of two drum beats that lasts about 1.5 seconds and then enters a strongly bass-driven, repetitive melody (which is very reminiscent of "
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" by the
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). Many keyboard effects are used throughout the song's 4-minute duration. The song enters a percussion section at 3:07 and lasts for the remainder of the song, slowly fading out from 3:45. The song was originally released as part of the charity album '' No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees'' in 1998 before being included on this single. It is also available on some editions of the ''
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'' album, the Australian double disc release being an example. The Chillington mix of "
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" is included on the second release of "Canned Heat". Chillington is not the name of an artist or DJ but instead the name of the studios at Jay's Home in Buckinghamshire. The Chillington mix heavily samples the Jamiroquai song "Getinfunky", which is found on some special releases of ''Synkronized'', including the Japanese release, where it replaced "Deeper Underground" as the bonus track, and alongside "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" on the Australian double disc. On the ''High Times: The Singles'' DVD, Jay comments on a bonus feature that the original ''
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'' song was just made of " Ominous noises" which strongly matches the sound of "Getinfunky". When the song's "ominous noises" are pared away, it strongly suggests that "Getinfunky" is an early version of the ''Godzilla'' song which later evolved into "Deeper Underground".


Critical reception

'' Daily Record'' wrote, "Cat in the hatster,
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returns with another distinctive and clever
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tune". ''
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'' said, "Seventies funk, expensive video, silly hat. Well, it worked last time didn't it? And the time before that." Howard Cohen from ''
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'' called it "a buzzed mirror-ball escapee from
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".


Music video

A
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was made to accompany the song. It was directed by Swedish director
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. In the video,
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is in his London apartment awake on his bed, and he decides to get up and put his shoes on. Once he does, he then talks to one of his walls and then phases through the wall into a living room. He then does a bit of dancing around before leaping through another wall into a dining room as he dances on the table, messing up the setup as he swings on a chandelier through another wall into a room where a party is going on. He dances about and inexplicably starts floating around, defying gravity. He then floats off and emerges into a bathroom, continuing to dance, and then goes into a couple's room and continues to dance and mess around before going back to the party room and doing more dancing there. He then goes to the corridor and jumps through a door into a bedroom where a pair of sweethearts are engaged in acts of desire as he keeps dancing and goofing around before flying into a TV. He sings as he flies while shifting positions before making it back to the party room. He then goes to a kitchen and trashes it, turning a table over and knocking the chairs over, before leaping back to the party room again. After that, he leaps to a room where a slumber party is being held as he slides and dances about on the ceiling in the room. Next, he goes back to the party room and phases outside the room, leaping around a corridor and merging at some stairs before going through a door and going back down another corridor back to his apartment, where he collapses back on the bed and falls asleep where he started.


Track listings

UK CD1 and Japanese CD single # "Canned Heat" (7-inch edit) – 3:46 # "Canned Heat" (radio edit) – 3:19 # "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" – 4:00 UK CD2 # "Canned Heat" (7-inch edit) – 3:46 # "Canned Heat" (album version) – 5:30 # "Deeper Underground" (Chillington mix) – 6:56 UK and US cassette single; US CD and 7-inch single # "Canned Heat" (7-inch edit) – 3:46 # "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" – 4:00 European CD single # "Canned Heat" (7-inch edit) – 3:46 # "Canned Heat" (radio edit) – 3:19 Australian CD single; US maxi-CD and maxi-cassette single # "Canned Heat" (7-inch edit) – 3:46 # "Canned Heat" (radio edit) – 3:19 # "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" – 4:00 # "Canned Heat" (album version) – 5:30 # "Deeper Underground" (Chillington mix) – 6:56 US 12-inch single :A. "Canned Heat" – 5:30 :B. "Deeper Underground" (Chillington mix) – 6:56


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Release history


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Canned Heat (Song) 1999 songs 1999 singles Epic Records singles Jamiroquai songs Music videos directed by Jonas Åkerlund Nu-disco songs Songs about dancing Songs about music Songs written by Jason Kay Songs written by Simon Katz Songs written by Toby Smith S2 Records singles