More Than This (song)

"More Than This"
Single by Roxy Music
from the album Avalon
B-side	"India"
Released	April 1982 (1982-04)
Format	7" single
Recorded	1981-1982 (1981-1982)
Genre	Art rock, New Wave
Length	4:30 (album) 4:10 (7" single)
Label	Polydor/E.G./Atco
Writer(s)	Bryan Ferry
Producer	Roxy Music
Roxy Music singles chronology
"In the Midnight Hour" (1980) "More Than This" (1982) "Avalon" (1982)

"More Than This" is a 1982 single by British art rock band Roxy Music. It was released as the first single from their album Avalon. The song peaked at #6 in the UK. Although it only charted at #103 in the United States, it remains one of their best known singles there, and was covered by 10,000 Maniacs in 1997 for a successful cover which hit #25, which outperformed Roxy Music's lone US Top 40 single "Love Is the Drug" (#30, 1976).

Cover versions

• In 1997, a cover performed by 10,000 Maniacs with Mary Ramsey singing the lead became a US hit when it reached 25 on the US Hot 100. The video for the cover was filmed at House on the Rock.
• Jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter and Norah Jones covered the song for Hunter's 2001 album Songs from the Analog Playground.
• During 2004, a compilation called Roxy Remodeled was released with Madison Park's version.
• Blondie used the 10,000 Maniacs arrangement in their live cover.^{[citation needed]}
• Electrelane did a live cover of this song, which can be found on their album Singles, B-Sides & Live.
• Australian singer-songwriter Missy Higgins recorded a cover of the song that was released as a single in 2009 and appears on her US EP Steer & More.
• Low Pop Suicide covers the song on the 1997 tribute album Dream Home Heartaches... Remaking-Remodeling Roxy Music.
• Robyn Hitchcock has covered the song live. A recording can be found on his greatest hits compilation.
• Contemporary folk artist Lucy Kaplansky covered the song on her 2007 album, Over the Hills.
• Canadian singer/songwriter Damhnait Doyle covered the song in her 2008 album of cover songs Lights Down Low.
• Dance songwriter Alex Christensen released a single cover in 2011 under the adopted name Jasper Forks.

In popular culture

• In the popular video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, "More Than This" was one of the songs featured on fictional radio station Emotion 98.3.
• Bill Murray performed the song in the film Lost in Translation, directed by Sofia Coppola. Murray sings in a scene where his character is at a karaoke party. His performance is included as a hidden track after a period of silence at the end of the soundtrack album.
• CTIA Wireless telecommunications features this song in its television commercial.
• The song is played in the movie Matchstick Men when Roy Waller, Nicolas Cage and his teenage daughter Angela, Alison Lohman are in a bowling alley together.
• The song is played on Nip/Tuck in Season 2, Episode 3 ("Manya Mabika") during a hair-transplant surgery.
• Emmie's cover of More Than This, appears in Dancing Stage EuroMIX, as More Than This '99, as one of the eight Universal songs.

Emmie cover

"More Than This"
Single by Emmie
B-side	"Clear"
Released	4 January 1998 11 January 1999
Format	CD single, Cassette single, 12" single
Genre	Pop, Dance
Length	3:17
Label	Manifesto
Writer(s)	Bryan Ferry
Emmie singles chronology
"More Than This" (1999) "I Won't Let You Down" (2002) Music video "More Than This" on YouTube

Track listing

CD single

1. "More Than This ('99 Radio Edit)" – 3:17
2. "Clear" - 3:59
3. "More Than This ('99 Translucid Vocal)" - 7:18

Charts

Chart (1999)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	5