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Elbow – Grounds For Divorce (3:39)

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“Grounds for Divorce” is the first single from Elbow’s fourth studio album The Seldom Seen Kid. The single was released on 10 March 2008 as the band’s first release on Fiction Records across two 7” vinyl records and one CD single. On 21 May 2009, “Grounds for Divorce” won the Ivor Novello award for Best Contemporary Song.

“Grounds for Divorce” was featured in the promotional trailer for Valve Software’s 2008 game Left 4 Dead, and in the trailer for the 2008 film Burn After Reading. It was also featured in an April 2010 promo for the CW’s “One Tree Hill”. An instrumental version was also featured on Series 12, Episode 1 of the British motoring show Top Gear and was played at the opening montage which contained clips from the upcoming episodes. “Grounds for Divorce” was also featured in the 8th episode for the 5th season, and promos for the 6th season of the TV-show House MD. Also appeared in episode 521 of Rescue Me. It appears in the soundtrack of the demo for DiRT 2, a rallying video game, and also appears in the full game itself. In October 2009, lead single Grounds for Divorce was named as the 84th best song of the 2000s by music blog The Decade.thanks for reading
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  • Marjo47

    brill.

    last week

  • kogz

    Great guitar sound!

    last week

  • Ednativo

    Yeeeeeesssss!

    last week

  • Sequillis

    I've been workin' up a cocktail called grounds for divorce...

    25 days ago

  • crawlpalmetto

    Massive tune :)

    February 2012

  • DftD

    This song remind me about House M.D.

    February 2012

  • Heph0815

    What a riff! [3]

    January 2012

  • okokoo

    this site never plays anything that i hate! (+)_(o)

    January 2012

  • kikikirsche

    ♥

    January 2012

  • annagreta

    Amazing.

    December 2011

  • crawlpalmetto

    What a riff! [2]

    December 2011

  • valplayer

    tres bien

    December 2011

  • goro-o_

    Elbow Elbow Elbow Elbow Elbow Elbow Elbow Elbow Elbow

    November 2011

  • inhmn

    the uploaded live video is shit. there are way better choices on youtube, for Christ sake.

    November 2011

  • johannez1

    There's basically just one word that can describe this song. Epic. In the real sense of the word, people throw such words around too much.

    October 2011

  • EdibleZebra

    My hands fly off of my arms and fly about the room every time I hear this song.

    October 2011

  • ariemendenkz

    Briliantt

    October 2011

  • AlanaKatana

    I learned this from the left 4 dead soundtrack..yay for me!

    September 2011

  • dooomisz

    live at lowlands, AMAZING!!!!

    August 2011

  • agorfinkel

    http://www.last.fm/user/Sevan_AMD

    July 2011
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