Get Smashed Gate Crash is the first single from
Hadouken!'s debut album ''Music for an Accelerated Culture'', released on 4 May 2008. The physical single was available from 17 March 2008, with the digital version being released on 4 April 2008.
The song was Hadouken!'s standard set opener from 2008 until 2009, when it was replaced by the opening track to
For the Masses
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, ''Rebirth''.
Track listing
10"
:A:"Get Smashed Gate Crash"
:B:"Get Smashed Gate Crash (Dezz Jones Vs D&G Remix)"
Digital Download
# "Get Smashed Gate Crash"
# "Get Smashed Gate Crash (David Wolf Remix)"
Release
Although the song was the first single to be specifically released from
Music For An Accelerated Culture
''Music for an Accelerated Culture'' is the debut album from new rave/grindie band Hadouken!, released as an Aerials exclusive on 24 April 2008 and as a physical copy on 5 May 2008. The album contains nine songs, three of which ("Spend Your L ...
, it was not the earliest song to be included on it. Previous singles
That Boy That Girl
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''Music for an Accelerated Culture'' is the debut ...
and
Liquid Lives
"Liquid Lives" is the second single by British band Hadouken!. The single reached the top 40 in the UK and currently the album's best selling single.
Background
The song deals with the binge drinking habits of the British people, and how it affe ...
were also on the album.
Music video
The music video for "Get Smashed Gate Crash" is based on a similar concept to
Blink 182
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's "
The Rock Show
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", where the band are given $500,000 in cash and go out and blow it all. Their video documents the band using two handheld
DV camcorder
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s, the band going to 4 pubs and a house party with 30 of their close friends, with money for drinks from the production company.
NME
Hadouken let fans get album 2 weeks early - ''retrieved'' 3 Mar 2008
References
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2008 singles
Hadouken! songs
2008 songs