Album · Everclear
Sparkle and Fade by Everclear
Sparkle and Fade is an album by Everclear, released in 1995. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 133 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Santa Monica”, on 90 lists with a best position of #3.
Sparkle and Fade, Everclear's second album, came out in 1995, and it was the first one Capitol put out on its own from day one; the debut, World of Noise, had first appeared on the Portland, Oregon label Tim/Kerr Records before Capitol picked it up. Art Alexakis produced it himself, and the songs trace a loose story of addiction and romance that runs close to his own rough years in his twenties.
Craig Montoya and Greg Eklund make up the rest of the trio, and all three show up as kids in the photos on the cover. The sound is loud, bright and bruised, grunge crunch welded to pop-punk hooks. "Santa Monica" is the big, sun-bleached singalong, "Heroin Girl" is the harrowing one, "Heartspark Dollar Sign" bounces with nervous energy, and "You Make Me Feel Like a Whore" spits venom.
It topped the Heatseekers chart in January 1996, went platinum that May, and by December 2001 Nielsen SoundScan had logged 1,190,000 copies sold in America. It remains the band's third-biggest seller.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Sparkle and Fade on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Monica#406 of all time | 90 | #3 | – | 1995–2026 | |
| 2 | Heartspark Dollar Sign | 16 | #11 | – | 1996–2024 | |
| 3 | Heroin Girl | 16 | #6 | – | 1995–2023 | |
| 4 | You Make Me Feel Like A Whore | 7 | #133 | – | 1999–2002 | |
| 5 | Pale Green Stars | 4 | #1960 | – | 1999–2002 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.