The track started out as an instrumental with the title "The Invasion of the Estate Agents". While also included as the B-side to this single, it originally appeared as the B-side to Cook's single "For Spacious Lies".
This instrumental track is heavily based on the bassline from The Clash 's " Guns of Brixton ", with a sample of the distinctive "harmonica" theme from the epic western film Once Upon a Time in the West , written by Ennio Morricone.
Cook told in an interview:. It was Lindy's idea to do a cover of the S. I knew it would go well with other beats because I'd tried it as a DJ. I also wanted to do something slower than the current house music, yet something funky you could get into.
The opening and closing line "tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty you're listening to the boy from the big bad city, this is jam hot, this is jam hot" was from Johnny Dynell 's single "Jam Hot", and the drum track is a loop of the oft-sampled break from "God Make Me Funky" by The Headhunters. Additionally, it was a top hit in France, and top hit in Italy. In New Zealand and Australia, it reached numbers six and 12, respectively. Only misgiving is absence of fab original.
Just fine. Upon the album release, another editor, Andrew Smith, wrote, "Out of this was fashioned a languid, smirking, gem of a tune, which we're probably all sick of by now.
