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About This Track
Kids is the Grammy Award nominated third single from MGMT’s debut album Oracular Spectacular. It was released October 13, 2008.
According to the Kids Songfacts, the song is about being filled with such typical college feelings as naivety, idealism, nostalgia, happiness and sadness .
Kids has been re-recorded several times. The “newer” version that appears on Oracular Spectacular is updated from earlier versions that appear on Time To Pretend EP released in 2005 and We (don’t) Care released a year before. A track entitled Kids (Afterschool Dance Megamix) appears on the album Climbing to New Lows also released in 2005.
To date, the single has peaked at #9 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, whereTime To Pretend had previously peaked at #23.
NME named it the number-one song on its list of the Best Singles of 2008.
Two months after exiting the UK Top 40, the song was featured in an advertisement for the BBC1 program Waterloo Road. From this the song gained renewed interest, re-entering the UK Top 40, and on January 16, 2009, the song reached its highest position to date of #16.
Kids also came in at #5 on Australia’s Triple J Hottest 100 countdown for 2008.
The single received considerable airplay in the U.S., UK, Ireland and Australia before the release date, charting in the UK, Ireland and Australia. In Australia, Kids debuted before the release date at #89, and currently it has peaked at #30. Kids (Soulwax remix), a Soulwax remix of the song was played heavily on UK radio ahead its official release as well.
According to the Kids Songfacts, the song is about being filled with such typical college feelings as naivety, idealism, nostalgia, happiness and sadness .
Kids has been re-recorded several times. The “newer” version that appears on Oracular Spectacular is updated from earlier versions that appear on Time To Pretend EP released in 2005 and We (don’t) Care released a year before. A track entitled Kids (Afterschool Dance Megamix) appears on the album Climbing to New Lows also released in 2005.
To date, the single has peaked at #9 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, where
Time To Pretend had previously peaked at #23.NME named it the number-one song on its list of the Best Singles of 2008.
Two months after exiting the UK Top 40, the song was featured in an advertisement for the BBC1 program Waterloo Road. From this the song gained renewed interest, re-entering the UK Top 40, and on January 16, 2009, the song reached its highest position to date of #16.
Kids also came in at #5 on Australia’s Triple J Hottest 100 countdown for 2008.
The single received considerable airplay in the U.S., UK, Ireland and Australia before the release date, charting in the UK, Ireland and Australia. In Australia, Kids debuted before the release date at #89, and currently it has peaked at #30. Kids (Soulwax remix), a Soulwax remix of the song was played heavily on UK radio ahead its official release as well.
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lzcool wrote:
Nice tune, very good vibes.
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fuckit4chris wrote:
i love this one
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dinha016 wrote:
I love this song
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bhangraprincess wrote:
Love this song!
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Alicia_Quays_ wrote:
why listen to it then dipshit?
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snooplicious wrote:
@maybeaninja I think you're talking about Opposite of Adults. Actually, it samples Kids. It was released a year after Kids.
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alicecupcakes wrote:
i remember when my friends used to play this song really loud and dance to it in their trucks. but i never danced. because MGMT has much better tracks to dance to (electric feel)
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xduanna wrote:
I guess not!
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Colton56 wrote:
Worse song ever [2]
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KeithKokain wrote:
Anthem of my junior year of high school, those were the days.
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maybeaninja wrote:
um the intro reminds me of that song by Chiddy Bang- anybody know which song I'm talking about?
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C3r3x4 wrote:
pRoBoK bAiL4R !
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ChrisTeam wrote:
Kids is one of the most played track of all time on last.fm. Check the list: The Stairway List
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trashcity_ wrote:
the water is warm but it's sending me shivers
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cleifmastersix wrote:
this is actually one of MGMT's worst songs. why it has so many listeners is beyond me. Don't get me wrong, it's a good song, but compared to a good 70% of MGMT's discography, it doesn't hold a fucking candle.
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nicki-77 wrote:
❤.
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cakin93 wrote:
sosweett
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alise_kursite wrote:
been__insane +1
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been__insane wrote:
\/ Worst comment ever.
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Colton56 wrote:
Worse song ever
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