Steal My Sunshine

This breezy but rather trippy tune is built on a sample of the disco hit "More, More, More" by the Andrea True Connection.

There is no Len in Len - the name comes from one of their friends. The group started out as the Toronto brother-and-sister duo of Marc and Sharon Costanzo; they released two albums in the alternative rock vein before adding three members for their 1999 album You Can't Stop the Bum Rush. "Steal My Sunshine" was written by Marc Costanzo with Gregg Diamond, who wrote "More, More, More," also getting a songwriter credit. Len had a minor UK hit with the follow-up "Cryptik Souls Crew," but in America and Canada are a prototypical one-hit wonder.

Marc Costanzo told Stereogum the story of the song: "I was at an outdoor electronic music festival up north, like a rave, and I just got caught up in the night. The song is about how I felt, and then it was exaggerated by the fact that I'm sitting in the middle of a field looking at the stars, about 1000 feet away from the stage, watching everybody dancing at 3 a.m. And I wrote part of it on my leg and a lot of it on a napkin. And then we were hanging out at Brendan [Canning, of Broken Social Scene]'s place, and Brendan ended up playing that Andrea True Connection record, and I just sampled it right then. I looped it and I just tied the two together."