Moving

About Moving

"Moving" is a song by English rock band Supergrass from their eponymous third album (1999). Released as a single in September 1999, "Moving" reached number nine on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Supergrass's last top-10 hit. In addition, it peaked at number 14 in Finland, where it is the band's sole top-20 hit, and number 81 in the Netherlands. The song later appeared on their greatest hits compilation Supergrass Is 10 (2004).

Article

B-Side "You Too Can Play Alright" is an instructional demonstration on how to play "Alright" on the guitar using a replica backing track, in the style of tutorials included on cover-mounted CDs from guitar magazines of the era. It is not performed by Supergrass.

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Music video

Directed by Nick Gordon, the video, like the song, is intended to depict the tedium of touring. The passing of time is shown by the change of outfits the band are wearing, their slight changes in appearance, the selection of different hotel rooms they are seen in, and the assortment of hotel room keys displayed. Footage is sped up and slowed down, and scenes are rewound and repeated to add to the film's effect.

Track listings

UK CD1

"Moving"

"You Too Can Play Alright"

"Pumping on Your Stereo" (CD ROM video)

UK CD2 and cassette single

"Moving"

"Believer"

"Faraway" (acoustic version)

UK limited-edition 7-inch blue vinyl single

A. "Moving"

B. "Believer"

European CD single

"Moving"

"Believer"

"Faraway" (acoustic version)

"You Too Can Play Alright"

Credits and personnel

Credits are taken from the Supergrass album booklet.

Studios

Recorded at Sawmills Studios (Golant, England) and Ridge Farm Studios (Rusper, England)

Personnel

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Notable quotes

“There are as many types of motion or change as there are meanings of the word 'is'.”
— Aristotle, Physics, 201a7, in The Basic Works of Aristotle (1941), p. 253
“In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.”
— Zeno of Elea's dichotomy paradox as recounted by Aristotle, Physics VI:9, 239b15
“If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.”
— Zeno of Elea's paradox of the arrow, as recounted by Aristotle, Physics VI:9, 239b5
“Newton... not only found a precise mathematical use for concepts like force, mass, inertia; he gave new meanings to the old terms space, time, and motion, which had hitherto been unimportant but were now becoming the fundamental categories of men's thinking.”
— Edwin Arthur Burtt, in The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1924), Ch. 1 Introduction (B) The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science the Key to this Problem
“Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.”
— Isaac Newton, in Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) Laws of Motion, I
“The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.”
— T. H. White, in The Once and Future King (1958)Book IV: The Candle in the Wind

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