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Meltdown by Ash
Meltdown is an album by Ash, released in 2004. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 10 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Meltdown”, on 9 lists with a best position of #95.
Meltdown, Ash's fourth album, came out on 17 May 2004, and it's the sound of the Downpatrick band plugging into the biggest amps they could find. Riding high after Free All Angels, they road-tested new songs through 2003, then decamped to Los Angeles that October to cut the record at Sound City in Van Nuys and Chalice Studios in Hollywood, co-producing with Nick Raskulinecz. Tim Wheeler sings and plays guitar alongside Charlotte Hatherley, with Mark Hamilton on bass and Rick McMurray on drums.
This is Ash gone hard rock: the riffs are heavy enough to draw comparisons to Black Sabbath and Metallica, and the sweep of it had some hearing the Smashing Pumpkins. "Clones" led the charge as the first single, and the title track closed out a long run of singles in 2005. It reached No. 5 in the UK and went gold.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Meltdown on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.