| Battle Flag | |
| Cover: | Battle Flag cover 2.JPG |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Lo Fidelity Allstars featuring Pigeonhed |
| Album: | How to Operate with a Blown Mind |
| Released: | November 16, 1998 February 12, 1999 (US 12") May 2, 2000 (Import re-release) |
| Recorded: | 1997 |
| Length: | 5:57 (original Pigeonhed version) 5:39 (Lo Fidelity Allstars remix) 4:00 (single edit) |
| Label: | Skint, Columbia |
| Producer: | Lo Fidelity Allstars |
| Prev Title: | Vision Incision |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Title: | Blisters on My Brain |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
"Battle Flag" (or "Battleflag") is a 1997 song by American funk rock band Pigeonhed which appeared on their 1997 album The Full Sentence. In 1998, the song was remixed by the British big beat group Lo Fidelity Allstars for the Pigeonhed remix album Flash Bulb Emergency Overflow Cavalcade of Remixes.
The "Battleflag" remix, credited to "Lo Fidelity Allstars (featuring Pigeonhed)" was issued as a single in November 1998 and appeared on Lo Fidelity Allstars' album How to Operate with a Blown Mind. Although the song was a minor hit in the United Kingdom, reaching No. 36 on the UK Singles Chart,[1] it was a major hit on American alternative rock radio and reached No. 6 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.[2]
The song has been featured in series such as Black Bird, ER, Queer as Folk, Smallville, Person of Interest, and The Sopranos. It has also appeared in the films Running with the Devil, Coyote Ugly, Forces of Nature, Mean Machine, and Very Bad Things, as well as the trailers for films such as Charlie's Angels, The 51st State, Drillbit Taylor, Starsky & Hutch, and Play It to the Bone. It was also used in trailers for the video game Duke Nukem Forever and WWE promotional videos.