Songs that debuted and peaked at the bottom of the Modern Rock Charts (1994-2005)

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Last week, I polled all the songs that debuted and peaked at the very last position on Billboard's Modern Rock Charts when there were 30 slots. In September of 1994, the chart expanded to 40 positions. Here is the first decade of songs that debuted and peaked at the new bottom rung of the chart, at #40. Poor Eels..."Last Stop: This Town" was at #40 for four weeks, never rising higher.

1988-1994 | 1994-2005 | 2006-2014

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin' Beats (6/21/97) 15
Eels – Last Stop: This Town (11/14/98) 6
Pete Droge – If You Don't Love Me (I'll Kill Myself) (12/17/94) 4
The Caesars – Jerk It Out (4/30/2005) 3
Snow Patrol – Chocolate (3/26/2005) 2
The Rev. Horton Heat – One Time For Me (10/8/94) 1
Queens of the Stone Age – Burn The Witch (12/3/2005) 1
Bad Religion – Los Angeles Is Burning (7/17/2004) 1
Hawthorne Heights – Niki F.M. (12/24/2005) 1
Josh Joplin Group – Camera One (2/10/2001) 1
Sugarcult – Bouncing Off The Walls (4/27/2002) 0
Danzig – Cantspeak (2/18/95) 0
Alkaline Trio – Time To Waste (7/9/2005) 0
General Public – Rainy Days (4/29/95) 0
Bare Jr. – You Blew Me Off (3/6/99) 0
Story of the Year – Sidewalks (12/4/2004) 0
Shinedown – Simple Man (10/2/2004) 0
Chronic Future – Time And Time Again (9/4/2004) 0
Shootyz Groove – L Train (7/31/99) 0
Lenny Kravitz – Where Are We Runnin'? (5/15/2004) 0
Linkin Park – Runaway (7/6/2002) 0


LimbsKing, Monday, 30 June 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link

"Last Stop: This Town" easily

You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Monday, 30 June 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link

Close for me between Eels and Chemical Brothers, went with "Block Rockin' Beats"

LimbsKing, Monday, 30 June 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link

BACK WITH ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE BLOCK-ROCKIN' BEATS

Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 30 June 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link

lol General Public had a new single in 1995?

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 June 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link

Didn't they have what was at least a minor hit with that "I'll Take You There" cover around that time (from, I think, the soundtrack to Threesome)?

You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Monday, 30 June 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link

It was also a medium-sized pop crossover whose chart position doesn't account for its ubiquity.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 June 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link

Voted Eels over the ChemBros and Caesars. "Last Stop" may have only hit #40 but at least E and company managed to get a second hit (surprised that "Susan's House" didn't enter the chart), which is more than you can say for, say, Primitive Radio Gods or Chumbawamba.

Frontier Psychiatrist, Monday, 30 June 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link

Yep, that's for sure. I remember hearing Your Lucky Day in Hell once or twice as well.

LimbsKing, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link

lol niki fm

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 30 June 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link

I had always thought that Bare Jr. song charted higher than it did because our local alt-rock station in Champaign played it incessantly. I still have guilty love for that Sugarcult song.

Torn between Eels, Bad Religion, Alkaline Trio and QOTSA.

Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 June 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link

stunned at the chem bros peaking that low, i'm guessing it was more of an mtv hit than radio then? this list is dire and dull from beginning to end, not sure this data tells us anything interesting. voted chem bros even though that track has really not aged well relative to their other hits.

balls, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:51 (ten years ago) link

KROQ top 50 1980

balls, Monday, 30 June 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link

It is kind of a dull list. The only ones that stand out for me:

The Rev. Horton Heat – One Time For Me (10/8/94)
Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin' Beats (6/21/97)
Eels – Last Stop: This Town (11/14/98)
Linkin Park – Runaway (7/6/2002)
Snow Patrol – Chocolate (3/26/2005)
The Caesars – Jerk It Out (4/30/2005)
Queens of the Stone Age – Burn The Witch (12/3/2005)

LimbsKing, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTxOKsyZ0Lw

LimbsKing, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link

Just listened to Chocolate again for the first time in ages. Still holds up. Most of their songs just trudge along.

LimbsKing, Sunday, 6 July 2014 11:34 (ten years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 7 July 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link

At times I think Last Stop This Town is my favorite song ever. Love how no part of the song repeats precisely as before, how the singning starts after the intro repeats three times, the whole operatic aspect of it, etc.

Frederik B, Monday, 7 July 2014 00:17 (ten years ago) link

That Bare Jr. song is a guilty pleasure. It really should be played in American sports arenas alongside the usual suspects (Blur "Song 2," "Seven Nation Army," Gary Gliter, etc.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36uxMmHX0M

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 7 July 2014 01:50 (ten years ago) link

And who can forget the singing carrot video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TfqbuTBqX8

LimbsKing, Monday, 7 July 2014 04:27 (ten years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link

whfs played that pete droge song so much back in the day, i am surprised it was as minor a hit as that

adam, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 02:23 (ten years ago) link


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