Good Luck (Basement Jaxx song)

"We had to kick it off with something. Whatever we chose people would say, 'That isn't house music.' Who cares?" (Complaints about the lack of house music have appeared on the band's website.) It's a brave track, even more so for including a 16-piece orchestra. But it didn't come easily. "Initially, Lisa sounded like a diva and we didn't want that. With two hours before she had to go back to America, Simon strummed an AC/DC riff and I scribbled down some words and suddenly we had something that didn't sound like a Basement Jaxx record - a rock 'n' roll song which didn't even sound modern."^[2]

Buxton said the song was the most difficult track to work on of the album. "That took us ages and we went through loads of processes. It took a long time to get it to its finish point," stated Buxton.^[3]

While predicting winners from all of the 47th Annual Grammy Awards' categories, Sal Cinquemani and Eric Henderson from Slant Magazine predicted the song's win, with Henderson calling the song "a fantastic, chugging single that shoves Britney's sex-pixie ditty and the Scissor Sisters's queer-as-milquetoast shtick face down in the dirt."^[4]

A music video was produced to promote the single, filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina.^{[citation needed]}

UK CD single (first release)^[5]

1. "Good Luck"
2. "Mere Pass"

UK 12-inch single (first release)^[6]

A1. "Good Luck" (Tim Deluxe Funked club mix)

B1. "Mere Pass"

B2. "Good Luck" (Tim Deluxe Funked dub)

UK 12-inch single (Roni Size mixes)^[7]

A. "Good Luck" (Roni Size vocal mix)

B. "Good Luck" (Roni Size dancefloor mix)

UK CD single (re-release)^[8]

1. "Good Luck"
2. "Cish Cash" (featuring Siouxsie Sioux)

UK 12-inch single (re-release)^[9]

A1. "Good Luck"

A2. "Ah-Choo"

B1. "Onyx"

UK 12-inch single (remixes)^[10]

A1. "Good Luck" (summer bootleg version)

B1. "Cish Cash" (Vitalic remix)

B2. "Right Here's the Spot" (Switch's Drunk at the Dogstar mix)

Australian and New Zealand CD single^[11]

1. "Good Luck" (album version) – 4:27
2. "Mere Pass" – 4:49
3. "Good Luck" (Tim Deluxe Funked club mix) – 7:15
4. "Good Luck" (Tim Deluxe Funked dub) – 6:54
5. "Good Luck" (Roni Size vocal mix) – 4:24
6. "Good Luck" (Roni Size dancefloor mix) – 6:07

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Kish Kash.^[12]

Recording and management

• Recorded at Jaxx (Loughborough Junction, London)
• Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange (Camden Town, London)
• Published by Universal Music and Mele Kekaula Music (BMI)

Personnel