Shot in the Back of the Head

"Shot in the Back of the Head" is a song by American electronica musician Moby, released as the first single from his ninth studio album, Wait for Me (2009). It was released as a free download on his website on April 15, 2009. The song features heavy synthsizer use and a repeating drum pattern.

The song received generally positive reviews.

Music video

The man in the video kissing his lover, a woman's head.

The music video for the song, directed and animated by David Lynch,^[1]^[2]^[3] was released on April 14, 2009 on Pitchfork.tv. The video contains crude drawings of various objects and landscapes, such as cityscapes and factories. The music video's plot follows a man, whose lover is a woman's head. An unknown person shoots the man in the back of the head, murdering him. The woman's head jumps on the killer and murders him. The video concludes with drawings of the night sky as the video fades to black.

Use in popular culture

The song was used in the original soundtrack for the movie The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman.

References

↑ "wait for me". moby.com. April 14, 2009. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
↑ Stosuy, Brandon (April 14, 2009). "New Moby Video (Dir. David Lynch) – "Shot in the Back of the Head" – Stereogum". Stereogum. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
↑ Kreps, Daniel (April 15, 2009). "Moby Teams with David Lynch for Shot in the Back of the Head | Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2016.

External links

"Shot in the Back of the Head" music video at Pitchfork.tv

Moby

Discography Awards and nominations

Studio albums	Moby Ambient Everything Is Wrong Animal Rights Play 18 Hotel Last Night Wait for Me Destroyed Innocents Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep. These Systems Are Failing

EPs	Move – The E.P.

Compilation albums	Early Underground I Like to Score MobySongs 1993–1998 Go – The Very Best of Moby

Singles	"Mobility" "Go" "Drop a Beat" "Next Is the E" "I Feel It"/"Thousand" "Move (You Make Me Feel So Good)" "All That I Need Is to Be Loved" "Hymn" "Feeling So Real" "Everytime You Touch Me" "Into the Blue" "Bring Back My Happiness" "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" "James Bond Theme (Moby's Re-Version)" "Honey" "Run On" "Bodyrock" "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" "Natural Blues" "Porcelain" "South Side" "Find My Baby" "We Are All Made of Stars" "Extreme Ways" "In This World" "In My Heart" "Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)" "Jam for the Ladies" "Make Love Fuck War" (with Public Enemy) "Lift Me Up" "Raining Again" "Spiders" "Dream About Me" "Beautiful" "Slipping Away" "New York, New York" "Extreme Ways (Bourne's Ultimatum)" "Alice" "Disco Lies" "I Love to Move in Here" "Ooh Yeah" "Shot in the Back of the Head" "Pale Horses" "Mistake" "Be the One" "The Day" "Lie Down in Darkness" "Extreme Ways (Bourne's Legacy)" "A Case for Shame" "Rio"

as Voodoo Child	The End of Everything Baby Monkey

Related articles	Little Pine (restaurant) Teany Vatican Commandos Moby Presents: Alien Sex Party Southland Tales Making Patterns Rhyme

David Lynch

Directorial
works

Feature films	Eraserhead (1977) The Elephant Man (1980) Dune (1984) Blue Velvet (1986) Wild at Heart (1990) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Lost Highway (1997) The Straight Story (1999) Mulholland Drive (2001) Inland Empire (2006)

Short films	Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) The Alphabet The Grandmother The Amputee The Cowboy and the Frenchman Industrial Symphony No. 1 Premonition Following An Evil Deed Darkened Room Rabbits DumbLand Bug Crawls Boat Absurda Lady Blue Shanghai Idem Paris

Music videos	"Wicked Game" "Longing" "Shot in the Back of the Head" "Came Back Haunted"

Television

Albums

BlueBOB (with John Neff)
Polish Night Music (with Marek Zebrowski)
Crazy Clown Time
The Big Dream

Books

Productions

Awards by film

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