Album · Badly Drawn Boy
The Hour of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy
The Hour of Bewilderbeast is an album by Badly Drawn Boy, released in 2000. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Once Around The Block”, on 3 lists with a best position of #41.
The Hour of Bewilderbeast, the debut from Badly Drawn Boy, arrived on XL on 26 June 2000, and it's a gloriously rambling thing: eighteen tracks of Damon Gough, the man in the beanie who borrowed his alias from a figure on the TV show The Magic Ball, writing everything and playing a good share of the instruments himself. Members of Alfie and Doves drop in to fill out the sound.
It wanders from hushed folk to swelling baroque pop and scrappy indie rock, and the sprawl is the charm: "The Shining" unfurls like a sunrise, "Once Around the Block" struts, "Disillusion" bounces. Critics fell hard for it, it took the 2000 Mercury Prize, and by September 2011 it had sold 455,000 copies in the UK.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Hour of Bewilderbeast on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Once Around The Block | 3 | #41 | – | 1999–2024 | |
| 2 | Disillusion | 2 | #100 | – | 2001–2024 | |
| 3 | The Shining | 1 | #436 | – | 2024 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.