The video of this song, directed by W.I.Z., is dedicated to Czech student Jan Palach who in 1969 set himself on fire in protest against renewed Soviet suppression of Czechoslovakia.

"[6] Serge Pizzorno said, "We were watching a Beach Boys documentary and saw they had a great kind of approach to making 'Good Vibrations.'

We wanted to approach 'Club Foot' the same way, to mess with the landscape and give the listener something to hold on to.

"[6] MTV.com described the song as "a quilt of relentless beats, hissing electronic noises, a buzzing guitar riff and Meighan's breathless, menacing vocals.

27 in US Modern Rock Tracks,[9] the same position in the same chart reached in 2011 with the single version contained in Live!, recorded at The O2 Arena in London on 15 December 2011.