Album · Better Than Ezra
Closer by Better Than Ezra
Closer is an album by Better Than Ezra, released in 2001. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “A Lifetime”, on 3 lists with a best position of #47.
Closer, the fifth studio album from New Orleans trio Better Than Ezra, came out on August 7, 2001, on Beyond Music, with Kevin Griffin still singing and playing guitar and Brad Wood producing. It's tuneful, polished alt-rock, and it initially did better than How Does Your Garden Grow?, peaking at 110 on the Billboard chart. The first single, "Extra Ordinary", landed on both the Modern Rock and Adult Top 40 charts, the band's eighth and final Modern Rock entry.
Then the label went bankrupt before a second single, "Misunderstood", could come out, the album went out of print, and the legal mess kept the band from a new studio record for four years. In 2009 they got hold of the rights and the masters and reissued it on their own label that October, in a bright red new cover with two leftovers from the 2001 sessions, "Simple Song" and "Screwed Up And Beautiful".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Closer on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Lifetime | 3 | #47 | – | 2005–2022 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.