Sunset

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"Sunset (Bird of Prey)"
Single by Fatboy Slim
from the album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
Released	16 October 2000 (2000-10-16)
Format	CD, 12"
Recorded	1999
Genre	Big Beat
Label	Skint Records
Writer(s)	Norman Cook, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison
Producer	Fatboy Slim
Fatboy Slim singles chronology
"Right Here, Right Now" (1999) "Sunset (Bird of Prey)" (2000) "Demons" (2001)

"Sunset (Bird of Prey)" is a song by Fatboy Slim from his 2000 album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars.

The song samples "Bird of Prey" by Jim Morrison from his band The Doors' album An American Prayer, as well as the song "I Like It" composed by Adam Cohen and Ian Dye for the TV series Dilbert.^[1]

The single peaked at #9 in the UK and #77 in Switzerland.

Track listing

CD

Catalogue no. SKINT 46CD

1. "Sunset (Bird of Prey)"
2. "My Game"
3. "Sunset (Bird Of Prey) (Darren Emerson remix)"

12"

Catalogue no. SKINT 58

1. "Sunset (Bird of Prey)"
2. "My Game"

Music video

The music video of the song takes place in the year 1964 and features a United States Air Force pilot flying a British-made Hawker Hunter fighter plane named the Bird of Prey. It opens with the famous "Daisy" television commercial, which was used as a campaign for president Johnson during this year, showing the pilot sitting in a room watching this commercial. He drinks a glass of water which has something bubbling in it, intercut with an image of a brain and a piece of paper with text describing a chemical. An identification form with Fatboy Slim's real name on it, (Colonel) "Norman Cook" is seen. He flies the plane as he is coming on to the drug, and he eventually ejects and parachutes down. The actual song is playing during the flight sequence.

The pilot ends up on the floor beside the plane, which somehow ends up back in the hangar, if it ever in fact left. He is helped up by Military Police. He says "It's wonderful... it's important that you understand..." He's then back in the room, watching the commercial, and tripping out watching his hands. There are some quick edits of Classified and Top Secret documents, Central Intelligence Agency and OSS logos, and finally, if the viewer hasn't yet realized that the pilot has been dosed, probably with LSD or Speed , a reference to Project MKULTRA. A similar ID form, but this time the name on the form is (Major) Al Hubbard is then seen. It closes with the "Daisy" commercial again, zooming in on the eye of the little girl as she counts down and ends on "One".

This video is probably a representation of the supposed "drugging up" of US pilots during the Vietnamese war. This was supposedly an attempt to desensitize pilots during bombings as well as keeping them awake during long missions.

Filming

The filming took place at Duxford Aerodrome, and was produced by Flight Logistics of Borehamwood, who used a Aérospatiale Corvette to film the airborne scenes from.^[2] The Hawker Hunter was in a USAF livery.^[3]

Charts

References

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