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"Ruby"
Song
B-side"Admire You",
"From the Neck Down"

"Ruby" is a song by English rock band Kaiser Chiefs and is the lead track on their second album, Yours Truly, Angry Mob. It was released as the lead single from that album in the United Kingdom as a download on February 5, and as a limited edition 7" and CD single on February 19 that year. It became the band's first ever #1 single on February 25, 2007.

A video single of the song was released in the United States at Best Buy stores on March 13 2007, two weeks before the album was released there, and featured a live version of "Everything Is Average Nowadays" and the B-side "Admire You" (released on the UK 7" version).[1] The master recording of the song is also to be featured on the upcoming game, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.

Track listings

  • 7" (Special ruby coloured vinyl) BUN119-7
  1. "Ruby"
  2. "Admire You"
    • This song was also released as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of Yours Truly, Angry Mob.
  • CD BUN119CD
  1. "Ruby"
  2. "From the Neck Down"
    • This song was also released as a bonus track on the Best Buy edition of Yours Truly, Angry Mob.
  • Download
  1. "Ruby"
  2. "Ruby" (Live at Berlin Kesselhaus)
  • Best Buy stores video single UNIR 21804-2
  1. "Everything Is Average Nowadays" (live)
  2. "Admire You"
  3. "Ruby" (video) [1]

Cover images

Music video

The promo for "Ruby" was directed by Swedish production company Stylewar, who also produced the 2005 video for "I Predict a Riot", and features the band performing in a desert landscape whilst a CGI metropolis-like city builds around them. The video was scheduled to be shown on Channel 4 at 11:35pm on January 15, but was pulled from the schedules for unknown reasons. The video finally premiered on the official Kaiser Chiefs website four days later.

Football

At the point of the song where the words Ruby are repeated, a number of football clubs have adopted this as a chant for players replacing the word Ruby with a form of the players name ending with an "ee" sound.

Manchester United - Rooney, Rooney, Rooney narnarnarnarnarnar Wayne Rooney

Fulham* - Bouiee, Bouiee, Bouiee narnarnarnarnarnar Hameur Bouazza

Celtic FC - Shuna, shuna, shuna Suke! narnarnarnarnarnar Shunsuke Nakamura

Southampton FC - Rudi, Rudi, Rudi narnarnarnarnarnar Rudi Skacel

Doncaster Rovers - Donnie Donnie Donnie Donnie narnarnarnarnarnar - Possibly from the special BBC Radio 1 gig held at the Doncaster Dome on 9 February 2005, chant was sung at the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final of 2007, this came to attention in an interview with lead singer Ricky Wilson on The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1.

A number of other clubs also sing it but these four are supposed to be the first to adapt this song into a terrace chant, though Leeds United,Bradford City and both claim it too be their own as the band are from Yorkshire

  • Was originally sung by Watford FC but following his move to spurs the chant moved to Spurs with him

Charts

Chart positions

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Austrian Singles Chart 14
Bulgarian Airplay Chart 6
Czech IFPI Chart 1
Dutch Top 40 7
De Afrekening (Belgium) 1
Irish Singles Chart 5
Polish Singles Chart 19
Slovak IFPI Chart 15
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart 29
UK 1
US Modern Rock 14

References

  1. ^ a b "Pre Album Single Offer - CD - Kaiser Chiefs".
Preceded by United Kingdom number-one single
February 25 2007 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Czech Airplay Chart number-one single
May 16 2007 - May 22 2007 		Succeeded by
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