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Fight for Your Mind by Ben Harper
Fight for Your Mind is an album by Ben Harper, released in 1995. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Ground on Down”, on 3 lists with a best position of #249.
Fight for Your Mind, Ben Harper's second album, came out on Virgin on August 1, 1995, and it's the sound of a young guitar wizard stretching out in every direction at once. After his debut, Welcome to the Cruel World, won him friends, Harper toured without let-up alongside jam bands like the Dave Matthews Band, and he came back with a record he produced and wrote himself that hops from quiet folk on "Another Lonely Day" to folk rock on "Gold to Me" and pointed, political reggae on "Excuse Me Mr."
What binds it together is his faith. The album closes on a run of gospel-steeped songs, "Power of the Gospel", "God Fearing Man" and "One Road to Freedom", and they carry a deep, searching spirituality. Critics were mostly smitten. It was also the last album he made as a solo act before the Innocent Criminals came aboard.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Fight for Your Mind on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ground on Down | 3 | #249 | – | 2016–2023 | |
| 2 | Gold to Me | 2 | #100 | – | 1996–2022 | |
| 3 | Burn One Down | 1 | #691 | – | 2009 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.