D.A.F. (song)
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| Single by Powderfinger | ||||
| from the album Double Allergic | ||||
| Released | 5 August 1996 (Australia) | |||
| Recorded | Sing Sing Studios, Melbourne | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 3:30 | |||
| Label | Universal Music Australia | |||
| Writer(s) | Jon Coghill, John Collins, Bernard Fanning, Ian Haug, Darren Middleton | |||
| Producer(s) | Tim Whitten | |||
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"D.A.F." is a song by Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger, released as a single from their second studio album, Double Allergic, on 5 August 1996.
"D.A.F." reached #39 on the Australian music chart. The song was doubly nominated in the 1997 ARIA Awards, once for "Song of the Year" and once for "Single of the Year," however won neither.
When "D.A.F." was first released, Australian television program Recovery ran a competition asking one the song's title stood for. Powderfinger guitarist Darren Middleton recalls that "people wrote in saying something like Dylan something farts" (referring to then host Dylan Lewis), but Middleton stated that the title was actually the song's chord progression - D,A,F. When asked about the naming of the song, bassist John Collins replied "It's just because we were stupid".
"D.A.F." received healthy radio airplay from numerous mainstream stations including the Today Network. This came as a surprise for the band, as only their previous single, "Pick You Up", had achieved such airplay. Lead singer Bernard Fanning commented that "You can't really control who plays what you do on the radio, so it's pretty weird hearing your song on B105".
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