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{{Short description|1999 single by Aphex Twin}}
{{see wiktionary|the track by Aphex Twin|window licker}}
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{{Infobox song
| name          = Windowlicker
| cover         = WAP105.jpeg
| alt           = Richard D. James’s face superimposed on a buxom, bikini-clad woman’s body
| type          = single
| artist        = [[Aphex Twin]]
| album         = 
| B-side        = * "Δ''M''<sub>''i''</sub><sup>−1</sup> = −''α''Σ<sub>''n''=1</sub><sup>''N''</sup>''D''<sub>''i''</sub>[''n''] [Σ<sub>''j''∈C[''i'']</sub>''F''<sub>''ji''</sub>[''n'' − 1] + ''F''ext<sub>''i''</sub>[''n''<sup>−1</sup><nowiki>]]" (</nowiki>''Formula'' on digital platforms)
* "Nannou"
| released      = {{start date|1999|3|22|df=y}}<ref name=WlWarp/>
| recorded      = 
| studio        = 
| genre         = {{hlist|[[Electronica]]<ref>{{cite web |last=De Peyer |first=Robin |title=Aphex Twin blimp spotted in London sparks speculation over DJ's return |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/aphex-twin-blimp-spotted-in-london-sparks-speculation-over-djs-return-9676572.html |website=[[Evening Standard]] |date=18 August 2014 |access-date=10 February 2019}}</ref>|[[contemporary R&B|R&B]]<ref name=dj/>
}}
| length        = 6:07
| label         = [[Warp (record label)|Warp]]
| writer        = Richard D. James
| producer      = Richard D. James
| prev_title    = [[Come to Daddy (song)|Come to Daddy]]
| prev_year     = 1997
| next_title    = [[minipops 67 (120.2)|minipops 67 <nowiki>[120.2]</nowiki>]]
| next_year     = 2014
| misc          = {{Extra chronology
 | artist     = [[Aphex Twin|Richard D. James]]
 | type       = single
 | prev_title = [[Compilation (Caustic Window album)|Caustic Window Compilation]]
 | prev_year  = 1998
 | title      = Windowlicker
 | year       = 1999
 | next_title = 2 Remixes by AFX
 | next_year  = 2001}}
}}

"'''Windowlicker'''" is a track by the British [[electronic music]] artist and producer [[Aphex Twin]]. It was released on 22 March 1999 through [[Warp (record label)|Warp Records]].<ref name=WlWarp>{{cite web |title=Windowlicker |url=https://warp.net/products/116029-windowlicker|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529014453/https://warp.net/products/116029-windowlicker|archive-date=29 May 2023|url-status=live|website=[[Warp (record label)|Warp]]|date=22 March 1999 }}</ref> The artwork for the single was created by [[Chris Cunningham]], with additional work by [[The Designers Republic]]. Cunningham also directed the song's music video, which was nominated for the [[Brit Award]] for Best British Video.<ref>[http://www.brits.co.uk/artist/aphex-twin "Aphex Twin – Brit Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140805223851/http://www.brits.co.uk/artist/aphex-twin |date=5 August 2014 }}. Brits.co.uk. Retrieved 11 November 2014</ref>

The song peaked at number 16 on the [[UK Singles Chart]], and was later voted by fans as Warp Records' most popular song for its 2009 ''[[Warp20 (Recreated)|Warp20]]'' compilation. In 2010, ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' included the song at number 12 on their list of the "Top 200 Tracks of the 90s"<ref name="Pitchfork.com">{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7853-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-20-01/ |title=Pitchfork Top 200 Tracks of the 90s |publisher=Pitchfork.com |date=3 September 2010 |access-date=2 May 2012}}</ref> and in 2025, ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine ranked it among "The 100 Best Dance Songs of All Time".<ref name="billboard2025">{{cite web|first1=Andrea|last1=Domanick|first2=Andrew|last2=Unterberger|first3=Elias|last3=Leight|first4=Eric|last4=Renner Brown|first5=Jason|last5=Lipshutz|first6=Joe|last6=Lynch|first7=Kat|last7=Bein|first8=Katie|last8=Bein|first9=Krystal|last9=Rodriguez|first10=Lily|last10=Moayeri|first11=Melinda|last11=Newman|first12=Thomas|last12=Smith|first13=Zei|last13=McCarthy|url=https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-dance-songs-all-time/|title=The 100 Best Dance Songs of All Time: Staff List|work=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=28 March 2025|access-date=6 April 2025}}</ref>

== Music ==
===Characteristics===
"Windowlicker" has been described variously as "uncompromising cyborg [[contemporary R&B|R&B]]",<ref name=dj>{{cite web |last1=Murphy |first1=Ben |title=Solid Gold: How Aphex Twin's ‘Selected Ambient Works 85-92’ refined dance music |url=https://djmag.com/content/solid-gold-how-aphex-twins-‘selected-ambient-works-85-92’-refined-dance-music |website=DJ Mag |access-date=2 November 2020}}</ref> "[[Hip hop music|hip-hop]] written in the language of [[Glitch (music)|glitches]]",<ref>{{cite web |title=The 50 best Aphex Twin tracks of all time |url=https://www.factmag.com/2017/04/14/best-aphex-twin-songs/ |website=Fact |date=14 April 2017 |access-date=15 November 2019}}</ref> and "eerie [[Porn groove|lounge-porn music]]";<ref name="AllMusic"/> the track's "sleazy, erotic ambiance connote[s] images and emotions alien to James's previous compositions."<ref>{{cite journal |journal=CMJ New Music Report |date=12 April 1999 |volume=58 |issue=613 }}</ref> Heavily digitally processed and rhythmically rearranged [[breakbeat]]s prominently appear in the song's backing track. Gasps, vocal harmonies and moans reminiscent of sexual vocal tones "glide in and out of the production"; it has been speculated that, like in many of James's productions from the late 1990s, the vocals are his own.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Staff |title=11 Songs That Sample Sex The Right Way |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/valentines-day-sex-songs/ |website=Vice |date=14 February 2017 |access-date=4 September 2019}}</ref> The track consists of various sections, including a [[drum'n'bass]] intro, a "gooey middle section", and an abrasive [[Noise music|noise]] ending, as well as featuring consistent melodic elements throughout.<ref name="Pitchfork.com"/>

In 2012 ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' stated that the track's futuristic elements presaged various musical developments, including "[[Flying Lotus]]' digital deconstruction, [[James Blake (musician)|James Blake]]'s bent vocals, [and] the wobble and knock of [[dubstep]]".<ref name="Pitchfork.com"/> Similarly, ''[[Stereogum]]'' stated that "the song's mix of unpredictable syncopation, digital-[[Dub reggae|dub]] alien transformations, errant noises, and bursts of melody would serve as a starting block for much of today's [[electronic music]]".<ref name="Windowlicker Turns 20">{{cite web |last1=Weingarten |first1=Christopher R. |title="Windowlicker" Turns 20 |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2036704/aphex-twin-windowlicker-turns-20/franchises/the-anniversary/ |website=[[Stereogum]] |date=22 March 2019 |access-date=4 September 2019}}</ref> Additionally, [[Daft Punk]] credited "Windowlicker" as an influence on the direction of their stylistic approach on their 2001 album ''[[Discovery (Daft Punk album)|Discovery]]''.<ref name="MTVeInterview">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=40|title=Daft Punk Embark on a Voyage of Discovery|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060327234551/http://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=40|archive-date=27 March 2006|access-date=22 February 2007|publisher=[[MTV]]}}</ref>

=== Spectrogram ===
{{Listen
 |filename     = Aphex Twin - Windowlicker.ogg
 |pos          = left
 |title        = "Windowlicker"
 |description  = The final 11-second portion of "Windowlicker" that showcases the high frequencies created in the audio to make a visual image of a spiral
}}
[[File:Windowlickerspiral.png|thumb|The spiral at the end of the spectrogram for "Windowlicker"]]
A [[spectrogram]] of "Windowlicker" reveals a spiral at the end of the song. This spiral is more impressive when viewed with an X-Y [[scatter plot|scatter graph]], X and Y being the amplitudes of the L and R channels, which shows expanding and contracting concentric circles and spirals.

The effect was achieved through use of the [[Apple Mac|Mac]]-based program [[MetaSynth]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elists.resynthesize.com/idm/2001/08/531341/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080221003951/http://elists.resynthesize.com/idm/2001/08/531341/|title=Electronic Music Mailing List Archives: idm — Re: Dissecting Windowlicker track #2|archive-date=21 February 2008}}</ref> This program allows the user to insert a digital image as the spectrogram. MetaSynth will then convert the spectrogram to digital sound and "play" the picture. According to an article on the website ''[[Wired News]]'', photographs run through the program tend to produce "a kind of discordant, metallic scratching".<ref name="wired"/>

A logarithmic spectrogram of the track entitled "<math display="inline">\Delta M_i^{-1} = - \alpha \sum_{n=1}^N D_i \left[ n \right] \left[ \sum_{j \in C \left[ i \right]}^{} F_{ji} \left[ n -1 \right] + Fext_i \left[ n^{-1} \right] \right]</math>" (commonly known as 'Equation' or 'Formula') reveals a portrait of James' face near the end of the track, grinning.<ref name="wired">{{cite magazine | first = Leander | last = Kahney | title = Hey, Who's That Face in My Song? | date = 10 May 2002 | publisher = [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] | url = https://www.wired.com/2002/05/hey-whos-that-face-in-my-song/ | magazine = Wired | access-date = 8 August 2013 | quote = Aphex Twin, who has been described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music," appears to have sneaked the digital image of a devilish face into at least one of his songs.}}</ref>

== Single release ==
The "Windowlicker" single contains its title track and two B-sides. Track two, commonly known as "[Formula]",<ref name=Warp_discography>{{cite web|url=http://warp.net/records/releases/aphex-twin/windowlicker |title=Warp / Records / Releases / Aphex Twin / Windowlicker |publisher=[[Warp (record label)|Warp]] |access-date=5 June 2009}}</ref> "[Equation]", or, as translated on the Japanese edition, "[Symbol]", due to its actual title being a complex mathematical formula ("<math display="inline">\Delta M_i^{-1} = - \alpha \sum_{n=1}^N D_i \left[ n \right] \left[ \sum_{j \in C \left[ i \right]}^{} F_{ji} \left[ n -1 \right] + Fext_i \left[ n^{-1} \right] \right]</math>"), has a very [[experimental music|experimental]] sound.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}} Track three, "Nannou", dedicated to his then-girlfriend, is made up of wind-up [[music box]] samples.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Soft Side of Aphex Twin |url=https://www.keymag.co.uk/features/the-soft-side-of-aphex-twin |access-date=2025-05-29 |website=KEYMAG |language=en-GB}}</ref>

As of 2001, "Windowlicker" had sold over 300,000 copies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://groove.de/2014/08/21/aphex-twin-groove-interview-2001-english/|title=APHEX TWIN Groove Interview, 2001|date=21 August 2014}}</ref>

== Music video ==
{{Quote box|quote=I don't really like it very much because it's me working in a slightly different area. It was fun though because it was just done in the spirit of trying to have a crack, I'm too much of a hip-hop fan to want to take the piss out of hip-hop.|source=[[Chris Cunningham]], director<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6103-chris-cunningham/|title=Interviews|work=Pitchfork|date=31 July 2005 }}</ref>|width=200px}}

The music video for "Windowlicker" was directed by [[Chris Cunningham]], who had also directed Aphex Twin's previous music video, "[[Come to Daddy (song)|Come to Daddy]]". It is a ten-minute long parody of contemporary American [[Gangsta rap|gangsta hip-hop]] music videos. In the video, two foul-mouthed young men in Los Angeles are [[window shopping]] for women; the French term for window shopping is ''faire du lèche-vitrine'', which literally translates to "licking the windows"; "window licker" and "window licking" are [[pejorative]] [[British English]] terms.<ref>
*{{cite news |last1=Coulter |first1=Martin |title=MP Nadine Dorries faces backlash over 'window licking' tweet |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/mp-nadine-dorries-faces-backlash-over-window-licking-tweet-a3673366.html |access-date=13 December 2021 |work=[[Evening Standard]] |date=1 November 2017 |language=en}}
*{{cite news |title=Council candidate criticised for saying "window licker" in email |url=https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/16180629.council-candidate-criticised-using-phrase-window-licker-email/ |access-date=13 December 2021 |work=[[Daily Gazette (Colchester)]] |publisher=[[Newsquest]] Media Group Ltd |language=en}}
*{{cite web |title=EXCLUSIVE: 'Window licking' and 'misogynistic' jibe Coventry councillor Rachel Lancaster avoids suspension – despite earlier final written warning |url=https://coventryobserver.co.uk/news/exclusive-window-licking-and-misogynistic-jibe-coventry-councillor-rachel-lancaster-avoids-suspension-despite-earlier-final-written-warning/ |website=[[Coventry Herald#The Coventry Observer (2014—)|Coventry Observer]] |access-date=13 December 2021 |language=en}}
*{{cite news |title=George Galloway criticised for 'window licker' tweet |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/aug/27/george-galloway-criticised-window-licker-tweet |access-date=13 December 2021 |work=[[the Guardian]] |date=27 August 2012 |language=en}}</ref> They come across two women (referred to in the end credits as "hoochies") who repeatedly turn down their advances. Suddenly, a ridiculously long white limousine (38 windows in length, including the driver's window, which takes 20 seconds to fully display) crashes into the two men's black [[Mazda MX-5|Mazda Miata]] NA (MX5) [[Convertible (car)|convertible]], and a "[[Pimp|pimped-out]]" Richard D. James, displaying a hyperbolic amount of wealth and power, emerges with his signature fixed grin, at which point the song begins. After emerging from the limousine, James begins provocatively dancing with an umbrella bearing the Aphex Twin logo in an attempt to seduce the two women. The women then accompany James and other women in his limousine while their faces [[Morphing|morph]] into James' own likeness. When two women emerge from the limousine's sunroof, the young men try to woo them but fail. The men arrive at an area where James and a group of women bearing his face are dancing together, and they receive [[Lei (garland)|leis]] from two of the women. Their attention is eventually drawn to a dancing woman turned away from them, but she turns around to reveal a horrifically ugly, buck-toothed, deformed face (which was later illustrated in a sketch by Swiss artist [[H. R. Giger]] titled "The Windowlickers"<ref name="The windowlickers 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.aphextwin.nu/visuals/98319764035682.shtml |title= Windowlicker artwork created by H.R Giger, 1999.|access-date=6 July 2012}}</ref>), much to the men's horror. The video ends with James' women dancing on [[Santa Monica Beach]] while James pops and sprays a bottle of champagne.

James's faces aren't digitally morphed on the women. Masks and make-up were specifically designed by the production, to achieve the desired morphing effect. The cast for the dialogue intro of the clip are Marcus Morris, Gary Cruz, Marcy Turner and Chiquita Martin.<ref name="Windowlicker Credits">{{cite web|url=http://www.aphextwin.nu/visuals/98140163561445.shtml |title=Windowlicker Credits |publisher=Aphextwin.nu |access-date=2 May 2012}}</ref> Filming was done in the [[Los Angeles]] area.

There are 127 uses of profanity in the dialogue segment of the video (which is under 4 minutes), including 44 uses of the word "[[fuck]]".<ref>{{Citation|last=Aphex Twin|title=Aphex Twin – Windowlicker (Director's Version)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZT3gTu4Sjw|access-date=18 January 2019}}</ref> This averages to more than one use of profanity every two seconds. The video was released as a [[VHS single]], containing both uncut and censored versions (the latter being referred to as the "Bleep Version").<ref name=Warp_discography /> It was also nominated for the Best Video award at the [[Brit Awards|BRIT Awards]] 2000, alongside videos by [[Supergrass]], [[The Chemical Brothers]], [[Fatboy Slim]], and eventual winner [[Robbie Williams]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/adam-rickitt-1385224|title=BRIT AWARDS – THE NOMINEES IN FULL|last=NME|date=1 February 2000|website=NME|language=en-US|access-date=18 January 2019}}</ref>

The full "Windowlicker" video is restricted to being broadcast only during the nighttime on most music television channels. A [[bleep censor|bleeped-out]] version of the video exists, and [[MTV Rocks (British and Irish TV channel)|MTV Two]] even made a daytime version, with all the opening dialogue removed (the censored version starts with the arrival of the limousine), along with some of its more graphic images. In 2008 [[MTV Networks Europe]] was fined by the United Kingdom's media regulator [[Ofcom]] for several breaches of its broadcasting code, including airing the uncensored version of the "Windowlicker" video on [[TMF (UK & Ireland)|TMF]] in 2006 before the 9 PM [[watershed (television)|watershed]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jun/04/television.ofcom |title=MTV fined £255k for offensive material |date=4 June 2008 |last=Sweney |first=Mark |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=18 March 2009}}</ref>

== Reception ==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web|last=Bush |first=John |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/windowlicker-mw0000047858 |title=Windowlicker – Aphex Twin |website=AllMusic |date=23 February 1999 |access-date=2 May 2012}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev2Score = 8.5/10<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/a/aphex-twin/windowlicker.shtml |title=Aphex Twin: Windowlicker EP: Pitchfork Review |accessdate=2023-08-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20031217102649/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/a/aphex-twin/windowlicker.shtml |archivedate=17 December 2003 }}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Cross">{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=Aphex Twin|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/21 21]}}</ref>
}}
"Windowlicker" was acclaimed. [[AllMusic]] gave the single 4/5 stars,<ref name="AllMusic" /> and was named by ''[[NME]]'' as Single of the Year in its 1999 year-end charts.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nme.com/bestalbumsandtracksoftheyear/1999-2-1045360|title=1999 – NME|date=10 October 2016|work=NME|access-date=1 February 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> In September 2010 ''[[Pitchfork Media]]'' included the song at number 12 on their list of the "Top 200 Tracks of the 90s".<ref name="Pitchfork.com"/> In March 2025, ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine ranked it number 81 in their list of "The 100 Best Dance Songs of All Time".<ref name="billboard2025"/>

== Remixes and use in other media ==
A remix of "Windowlicker" in the [[acid techno]] style, entitled "Windowlicker, Acid Edit", is available on the remix compilation ''[[26 Mixes for Cash]]''. Another remix of "Windowlicker", entitled "WINDuckyQuaCKer", appears on [[V/VM]]'s ''HelpAphexTwin/1.0'' (2001)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://brainwashed.com/vvm/releases/vvmtest/hat01b.htm |title=V/VM – helpaphextwin v1.0 |publisher=[[V/Vm Test Records]] |access-date=18 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061110053602/http://www.brainwashed.com/vvm/releases/vvmtest/hat01b.htm |archive-date=10 November 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and ''HelpAphexTwin 4.0'' (2003).<ref name="V/VM – helpaphextwin v4.0">{{cite web |url=http://brainwashed.com/vvm/releases/vvmtest/hat04b.htm |title=V/VM – helpaphextwin v4.0 |publisher=V/Vm Test Records |access-date=18 March 2009 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> A remix entitled "it's a richJAMs World" appears on V/VM's ''HelpAphexTwin 4.0'' (2003).<ref name="V/VM – helpaphextwin v4.0" /> Run Jeremy (an alias of Danish producer [[Trentemøller|Anders Trentemøller]]) also made his own remix of "Windowlicker".
[[Beardyman]] performed a live version of "Windowlicker" as part of his Edinburgh show in 2009.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciVXUHTN10|title=Beardyman – Live in the Underbelly: The Full show|date=19 January 2010|via=YouTube}}</ref>

[[A. G. Cook]] made a "note-for-note" cover of "Windowlicker" in 2017 as part of the [[PC Music]] compilation ''Month of Mayhem''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=28 July 2017|title=A. G. Cook – "Windowlicker" (Aphex Twin Cover)|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1954537/a-g-cook-windowlicker-aphex-twin-cover/music/|access-date=24 November 2020|website=Stereogum|language=en}}</ref>

== Track listing ==
All tracks written, produced and engineered by [[Aphex Twin|Richard D. James]]. The original single was released on [[12-inch single|12-inch]], two separate [[compact disc|CDs]], a special edition Japanese CD and VHS.

=== CD1 and 12-inch vinyl ===
{{Track listing
| headline        = WAP105CD/WAP105
| total_length    = 16:03
| title1          = Windowlicker
| length1         = 6:07
| title2          = <math>\Delta M_i^{-1} = - \alpha \sum_{n=1}^N D_i \left[ n \right] \left[ \sum_{j \in C \left[ i \right]}^{} F_{ji} \left[ n -1 \right] + Fext_i \left[ n^{-1} \right] \right]</math>
| note2           = commonly referred to as "[Equation]" or "[Formula]"
| length2         = 5:43
| title3          = Nannou
| length3         = 4:13
}}

=== CD2 ===
{{Track listing
| headline        = WAP105CDR
| title1          = Windowlicker
| note1           = original demo
| length1         = 2:37
}}
* The "Windowlicker" video is also included in [[QuickTime]] format.

=== Japanese version ===
{{Track listing
| headline        = WPCR-10328
| total_length    = 19:13
| title1          = Windowlicker
| length1         = 6:04
| title2          = <math>\Delta M_i^{-1} = - \alpha \sum_{n=1}^N D_i \left[ n \right] \left[ \sum_{j \in C \left[ i \right]}^{} F_{ji} \left[ n-1 \right] + Fext_i \left[ n^{-1} \right] \right]</math>
| length2         = 5:43
| title3          = Nannou
| length3         = 4:22
| title4          = Windowlicker
| note4           = demo version
| length4         = 1:57
| title5          = Windowlicker
| note5           = end-roll version
| length5         = 1:07
}}

== Chart positions ==
{|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!align="left"|Chart (1999)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| Australia ([[ARIA Charts|ARIA]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Ryan|first=Gavin|title=Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010|year=2011|publisher=Moonlight Publishing|location=Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia}}</ref>
| 70
|-
{{single chart|Denmark|15|artist=Aphex Twin|song=Windowlicker|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{single chart|France|60|artist=Aphex Twin|song=Windowlicker|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{single chart|Dutch100|63|artist=Aphex Twin|song=Windowlicker|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{single chart|New Zealand|33|artist=Aphex Twin|song=Windowlicker|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{single chart|Sweden|53|artist=Aphex Twin|song=Windowlicker|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{single chart|UK|16|date=1999-03-28|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{single chart|UKdance|3|date=1999-03-28|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{single chart|UKindie|4|date=1999-03-28|rowheader=true|accessdate=21 August 2022}}
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://warp.net/records/releases/aphex-twin/windowlicker "Windowlicker"] at the Warp Records website
* {{YouTube|5ZT3gTu4Sjw}}
* {{IMDb title|qid=Q61958116|id=tt0302037|title=Aphex Twin: Windowlicker}}
* [https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,,313437,00.html "Face the music"] – from ''[[The Guardian]] Friday Review'', 5 March 1999
* [http://www.bastwood.com/aphex.php Spectrogram analysis of track 2 (The Aphex Face)]

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