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We Love the City by Hefner
We Love the City is an album by Hefner, released in 2000. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Greedy Ugly People”, on 1 list with a best position of #7.
We Love the City, Hefner's third album, came out on Too Pure in 2000, and Darren Hayman, the band's singer and songwriter, has since called it his favourite of their records. It's easy to hear why: this is indie rock that's scrappy, wordy and warm, with Amelia Fletcher's vocals brightening a handful of tracks and Jack Hayter bedded in as a full member on a Hefner LP for the first time.
It only scraped to number 92 on the albums chart, but "Good Fruit" and "The Greedy Ugly People" both made the singles chart, and the pair turned up in John Peel's Festive Fifty for 2000 alongside "The Day That Thatcher Dies" and "Painting & Kissing". Fitting, for a band nicknamed "The Peel House Band". The album was reissued in 2009.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from We Love the City on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Greedy Ugly People | 1 | #7 | – | 2000 | |
| 2 | The Day That Thatcher Dies | 1 | #12 | – | 2000 | |
| 3 | Good Fruit | 1 | #15 | – | 2000 | |
| 4 | Painting & Kissing | 1 | #44 | – | 2000 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.