Summercat (Single)

Summercat, the first track on the band's debut album I Was So Unpopular In School and Now They're Giving Me This Beautiful Bicycle, was separately released as a single in 2004. Even though other songs are considered singles because of the focus spent on them for marketing reasons, this was the only one that became a different entity entirely.

Background and Recording
Summercat became one of the most recognizable Billie the Vision songs after it was featured in a TV commercial for beer brand Estrella Damm in 2009, but before that its potential was already recognized, as it was launched as a single CD by the band in 2004.

In 2005, as the band started putting up their songs for free download, the single listed as a separate entry in the "music" section of the website. It disappeared a year later, which was perhaps linked to the fact that they were having far too many downloads and they didn't have enough money to pay for server costs. Even though the song Summercat itself continued to be downloaded afterwards (because it was also in an album), track 2, Make Love, as it never appeared again on any other album, fell into oblivion and wasn't made available after the single was cut from the "music" part of the page. There is no information available today concerning the personnel in that particular track, and the website never informed a precise date for the release of the single as a CD.

Track list

 * 1) Summercat
 * 2) Make Love

Reception and Reviews
There is hardly a way to tell the reception for the single apart the one for the album as a whole, and it was received well as media appearances are concerned.

The website listed one separate review for the single CD, though, from Dagfinn Bergesen, who was quoted saying that was the single of 2004.