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Strange Desire by Bleachers
Strange Desire is an album by Bleachers, released in 2014. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 23 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “I Wanna Get Better”, on 12 lists with a best position of #3.
Strange Desire, the debut album from Bleachers, landed on RCA in July 2014, and it's essentially Jack Antonoff's show under a band name: he was the project's only permanent member for its first decade. Greg Kurstin produced.
The New Jersey songwriter floods it with teenage-movie romance, the whole thing glowing with the neon of John Hughes high-school films and vintage synth-rock while sounding thoroughly modern. "I Wanna Get Better", released as his debut single that February, is the big, cathartic shout-along, followed onto the airwaves by "Shadow", "Rollercoaster" and "Like a River Runs". A decade later Antonoff went back and re-recorded the whole album as A Stranger Desired. Gone Now came next.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Strange Desire on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Wanna Get Better | 12 | #3 | – | 2014–2025 | |
| 2 | Rollercoaster | 10 | #15 | – | 2014–2025 | |
| 3 | Like a River Runs | 1 | #96 | – | 2015 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.