Album · Catherine Wheel
Chrome by Catherine Wheel
Chrome is an album by Catherine Wheel, released in 1993. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 10 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Crank”, on 9 lists with a best position of #39.
Chrome, the second studio album from Catherine Wheel, came out on 20 July 1993, on Fontana in Britain and Mercury in the States, and it's where the band from Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft started to pull away from the shoegaze pack. Gil Norton produced, and he sharpened the swirl of their debut, Ferment, into something heavier and more muscular without losing the dreamy haze entirely: the guitars still billow, but now they bite.
"Crank" is the knockout, a thick, churning single that reached number 5 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. It was never a huge seller, but critics and fans have held on to it, and Norton stayed behind the desk for the follow-up, Happy Days.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Chrome on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.