Young Folks

"Young Folks"
Song
B-side	"Ancient Curse"

"Young Folks," the first single from Peter Bjorn and John's third album Writer's Block, features Victoria Bergsman of The Concretes as a guest vocalist. The song gained notoriety on websites such as MySpace and YouTube and was used in a number of commercials and television shows (see below) and only very recently has been getting extensive play on American airwaves. The song was ranked #5 on Pitchfork Media's "Top 100 Tracks of 2006" list[1]. Pitchfork reviewed the song on July 19, 2006, giving it three out of five stars [2]. NME also named the song #2 in their Tracks of the Year 2006.

Planet Sound named this their #2 single of 2006,losing out to Liam Frost's The Mourners of St. Paul's.

On their recent Australian tour Victoria Bergsman's vocals were performed by Tracey-Anne Campbell of Camera Obscura. The group performed the song on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on January 29, 2007, and on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on May 18, 2007 (the latter with Tonight Show Band member Vicki Randle on bongos).

Vinyl Track listing

1. "Young Folks" feat. Victoria Bergsman
2. "Ancient Curse"

CD Track listing

1. "Young Folks" feat. Victoria Bergsman
2. "Ancient Curse"
3. "All Those Expectations"

Use of "Young Folks"

• "Young Folks" has been featured in:

• the Grey's Anatomy episode "Let the Angels Commit",
• the How I Met Your Mother episode "Monday Night Football", which aired February 5, 2007,
• the fashion show for Banana Republic's Spring 2007 collection,
• MTV Australia's Christmas Throwie campaign, which consisted of throwing 2000 glowing LEDs to light up Sydney buildings,
• broadcasts of baseball games on Washington and Lee University's WLUR-FM,
• a commercial for AT&T,
• an advertisement for Sky Movies recent re-launch.
• an advertisement for Napster
• an advertisement for Belgium internet provider Telenet
• an advertisement for Budweiser

Covers

• German singer Nena, Remmler covered "Young Folks" in German as "Ich Kann Nix Dafür" (It's Not my Fault) for the movie Vollidiot.
• Japanese singer Shugo Tokumaru covered the song in 2007. It was released as a single in Japan and received considerable airplay.
• Kanye West has remixed this song for his latest album, Graduation.

Links

• NME Track of the Year 2006