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The Private Press by DJ Shadow
The Private Press is an album by DJ Shadow, released in 2002. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Walkie Talkie”, on 1 list with a best position of #99.
The Private Press, DJ Shadow's second album, arrived on MCA in 2002, six years after Endtroducing....., and Joshua Davis produced it the way he'd built that debut: layer upon layer of samples, lifted from other people's records and stitched into something that sounds entirely his own. It gets filed under trip-hop, but it's more restless than that, sliding a little synth-pop sheen into one track and some industrial grind into another, moving from dusty head-nod beats to haunted, cinematic collage.
Critics lined up behind it. Metacritic's average of 81 across 24 reviews counts as universal acclaim, Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield heard a record full of playful experiments, and Spin put it on its list of the 40 best albums of 2002. It also climbed to number 44 on the Billboard 200. "Walkie Talkie" is the cut that made the countdowns.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Private Press on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walkie Talkie | 1 | #99 | – | 2002 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.