{{Use British English|date=February 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox song | name = Joy! | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Gay Dad | album = Leisure Noise | B-side = "Desire" * "Twelve" * "Sly" * "Electrogeist" | released = 24 May 1999 | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Britpop | length = 5:00 | label = London-Sire Records | writer = Jones, Hoyle, Crowe, Risebero | producer = Chris Hughes | prev_title = To Earth with Love | prev_year = 1999 | next_title = Oh Jim | next_year = 1999 }}
"'''Joy!'''" is a song by the English rock band Gay Dad from their first album, ''Leisure Noise'', released as a single on 24 May 1999. It was featured in FIFA 2000 and in 2002 on a Mitsubishi television commercial. Additional vocals on the track are by Carol Kenyon.
==A-Side==
While most Gay Dad tracks were a collaborative effort, "Joy!" originates from a recording created by Cliff Jones ten years earlier as a student at Durham University. The finished track combines Krautrock metronomic beats, a fluid bass line and scruffy guitar riffs with a plethora of synth effects ultimately ending with a gospel recital of the lyric "Goodbye my darling I'm ready to die". In a ''Sound on Sound'' interview, lead singer Cliff Jones described the song as sounding "like a record that was made 10 minutes in the future".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul99/articles/tracks.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111225160613/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul99/articles/tracks.htm|archivedate=25 December 2011|date=July 1999|title=CLIFF JONES & MARK FRITH: Recording Gay Dad's 'Joy'|publisher=Sound on Sound|last=Bell|first=Matt|accessdate=16 October 2016}}</ref>
==Track listing==
CD1 #"Joy!" (single edit) - 3:40 #"Sly" - 4:56 #"Desire" - 5:43
CD2 #"Joy!" (album version) - 5:00 #"Electrogeist" - 5:39 #"Twelve" - 4:14
10" Vinyl #"Joy!" (album version) - 5:00 #"Desire" - 5:43
Cassette #"Joy!" (single edit) - 3:40 #"Electrogeist" - 5:39 #"Sly" - 4:56
==Charts== {| class="wikitable" !align="left"|Chart (1999) !align="left"|Peak<br/>position |- |align="left"| UK Singles Chart |align="center"| 22 |- |}
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Category:1999 singles Category:1999 songs Category:Gay Dad songs Category:London Records singles