| I Still Remember | |
| Cover: | BlocParty_IStillRemember.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Bloc Party |
| Album: | A Weekend in the City |
| Released: | 9 April 2007 |
| Recorded: | 2006 |
| Length: | 4:24 |
| Label: | Wichita |
| Producer: | Jacknife Lee |
| Prev Title: | The Prayer |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Title: | Hunting for Witches |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
"I Still Remember" is a song by English rock band Bloc Party. It was released as a single from their second studio album, A Weekend in the City, being the first U.S. single and second UK single from the album. The single was released in Britain in two 7" formats as well as a CD version. The B-sides are "Atonement", "Cain Said To Abel", "Selfish Son", and "I Still Remember (Music Box And Tears Remix)". A limited edition "I Still Remember" 7" was also given to the first 1000 people who pre-ordered the album from Insound.[1] The music video was made by Aggressive[2] and was first shown on 8 January 2007 on MTV2. The song peaked at number 24 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart,[3] making it the band's highest-charting single in the US.[3]
Frontman Kele Okereke talked about the song at some length in his January 2007 The Observer interview, responding to questions as to whether the song had an autobiographical nature:[4]
Not really ... I guess, partially. [Can we call it a gay love story?] Yeah, but is it a love story? It's one person longing for somebody they can't really have. But it's not consummated. It's not a mutual thing. ...
This is probably a contentious issue, but I swear that I could always see [male homosexual attraction] in people, in the way that guys would need to be touching other guys. You could see there was something they couldn't say aloud. And I saw it when I was at school. And I guess "I Still Remember" is an attempt at trying to confront that. ... I know from my own experiences a lot of heterosexual boys had feelings or experiences when they were younger. And that's not really ever spoken about, that un-spoken desire. ...
Not two gay boys ... but the idea of two straight boys having an attraction, or there being an attraction that's unspeakable – that was the idea of that song.
| Chart (2008) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Poland (LP3)[5] | 50 |
| Switzerland Airplay (Swiss Hitparade)[6] | 58 |
| UK Singles Chart | 20 |