Scorpio Rising (Death in Vegas album)

Scorpio Rising is the third album by British electronica band Death in Vegas. It was released on September 16, 2002 in the United Kingdom via Concrete Records, and on June 17, 2003 in the United States via Sanctuary Records. The album takes its name from an experimental film by Kenneth Anger.^[8] Scorpio Rising features guest vocalists Liam Gallagher, Hope Sandoval, Nicola Kuperus, and Paul Weller, as well as string arrangements by Dr. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam. The album was recorded at Death in Vegas' own studio The Contino Rooms in early 2002, with the strings recorded at Trinity Wave Station in Chennai, India.^[9]

The song "Hands Around My Throat" contains samples from the songs "Rock Around the Clock" by Telex (written by Max C. Freedman and Jimmy DeKnight) and "Whitewater" by Tortoise (written by Dan Bitney, Bundy Kien Brown, John Herndon, Doug McCombs, and John McEntire). "23 Lies" includes a sample from "Goin' Back" by The Byrds, written and composed by Carole King and Gerry Goffin. "Scorpio Rising" takes its main riff from "Pictures of Matchstick Men" by Status Quo, and is co-credited to songwriter Francis Rossi- it also bears a striking resemblance to "All I Know" by Screaming Trees.

Several songs on the album have appeared in television advertisements and on film soundtracks:

"Girls" is featured on the soundtrack to the 2003 film Lost in Translation and 2004 film D.E.B.S..
"Hands Around My Throat" is featured on the Animatrix soundtrack.
"Scorpio Rising" is used in a commercial by the Belgian mobile phone operator BASE, and was used at the end of the episode "Touch and Go" of ER.
"Help Yourself" was used in a commercial by the former Czech mobile phone operator Eurotel (now Telefónica O2 Czech Republic); in Johan Kramer's 2003 film The Other Final; in the 2003 Girl Skateboards video Yeah Right!; and in the 2005 film 12 and Holding.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Leather"	Fearless, Holmes	3:30
2.	"Girls"	Fearless, Holmes	4:30
3.	"Hands Around My Throat"	Kuperus, Miller, Fearless, Holmes; Freedman, DeKnight, Bitney, Brown, Herndon, McCombs, McEntire	5:08
4.	"23 Lies"	Dillane, Fearless, Holmes; King, Goffin	3:49
5.	"Scorpio Rising"	Fearless, Holmes, Button, Rossi, Wiz, Pratt	5:38
6.	"Killing Smile"	Fearless, Holmes, Sandoval, Subramaniam	4:49
7.	"Natja"	Fearless, Holmes	3:50
8.	"So You Say You Lost Your Baby"	Clark	3:01
9.	"Diving Horses"	Fearless, Holmes, Allison	5:11
10.	"Help Yourself"	Fearless, Holmes, Sandoval, Subramaniam	10:29

Japanese bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"XXX"	Fearless, Holmes	4:56
14.	"Hands Around My Throat" (Percy X Remix)	Kuperus, Miller, Fearless, Holmes	5:30

"Leather"/"Girls" and "XXX" (double 12" vinyl only, July 22, 2002)
"Hands Around My Throat" (September 9, 2002)
"Scorpio Rising" (December 16, 2002)
"So You Say You Lost Your Baby" (canceled as a commercial single; was set for release on April 7, 2003)