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Cage the Elephant by Cage The Elephant
Cage the Elephant is an album by Cage The Elephant, released in 2008. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 134 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Aint no Rest for the Wicked”, on 65 lists and voted number one once.
Cage the Elephant's self-titled debut hit Europe on Relentless Records on 23 June 2008, and it took until 24 March 2009 for RCA/Jive to bring it home to the States. That's a funny route for a band out of Bowling Green, Kentucky, but the group had packed up for London shortly before the record dropped. Jay Joyce produced, and he keeps the whole thing loose, sweaty and loud.
Matt Shultz yelps and struts over the guitars of his older brother Brad and lead man Lincoln Parish, while Daniel Tichenor and Jared Champion keep the rhythm section rattling. It's punk blues with a classic-rock swagger and a funky hip-shake, the sound of a bar band that has read the alt-rock rulebook and torn out a few pages. "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked", "Back Against the Wall" and "In One Ear" did the damage on radio, and the album went platinum in the US on the way to four singles.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Cage the Elephant on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aint no Rest for the Wicked | 65 | #1 | 1 | 2009–2026 | |
| 2 | Back Against the Wall | 45 | #2 | – | 2009–2015 | |
| 3 | In One Ear | 24 | #1 | 1 | 2010–2019 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.