Stem (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Stem


Artist = DJ Shadow
Album = Endtroducing.....
Released = start date|1996
Format = 7" vinyl, CD
Recorded = 1996
The Glue Factory
(San Francisco, California)
Genre = Experimental hip hop
Length = 11:14
Label = Mo' Wax
Writer =
Producer = DJ Shadow
Audio sample? =
Certification =
Last single = "Midnight in a Perfect World"
(1996)
This single = Stem
(1996)
Next single = "The Number Song" / "Painkiller"
(1998)
Misc =

"Stem" is a song by DJ Shadow from his 1996 debut album "Endtroducing.....".

The song reached #9 on the Ireland singles chart, DJ Shadow's only ever top 10 hit. The album "Endtroducing....." is listed in the Guinness World Records as being the first ever album of entirely sampled content.

amples used

One sample from the beginning of the song "Love Suite" recorded in 1969 by the British sixties progressive rock band Nirvana.

Track listing

#"Stem" – 3:24
#"Long Stem" – 4:26
#"Red Bus Needs to Leave!" – 2:41
#"Soup" – 0:43

Use in popular culture

It has been featured in several films and on television, including:

* The 1997 film "Twin Town"
* The 1997 film "One Eight Seven"
* An advert for a BBC television programme that aired in November 2006 called "Lock Them Up Or Let Them Out"
* Used in the background of the ITV programme "The X Factor" in Series 3.
*A BBC World War II documentary about Saint Nazaire that aired on 18 March, 2007 called "Jeremy Clarkson: Greatest Raid of All Time". The show was repeated on the BBC on 29 June, 2008.
* UK TV adverts for O2 and Guinness.
*A 2007 Television Show that is airing on Bravo in the UK in May 2007 called "Brits Behind Bars: America's Toughest Jail".
*A BBC "Panorama" programme in June 2007
* Football's Hardest Away Days on Bravo
*A BBC1 Television show called Britain's Lost World that aired on 26th June, 2008.