Album · Madder Rose
Bring It Down by Madder Rose
Bring It Down is an album by Madder Rose, released in 1993. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Swim”, on 1 list with a best position of #2.
Bring It Down, the 1993 debut from New York's Madder Rose, came out on Seed Records, an alternative offshoot of Big Beat, with Kevin Salem producing. Singer Mary Lorson leads the band and writes alongside guitarist Billy Coté, and the two of them build songs that drift and shimmer before the guitars bite.
"Swim" is the one that broke them in Britain: it went out there as an import single, John Peel championed it on the BBC, and the band's UK following grew from there, enough for the album to have moved 10,000 copies in the UK by March 1994. "Beautiful John" and "Lights Go Down" show the rest of the palette, Lorson's cool, unhurried voice floating over fuzz that never quite boils over.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Bring It Down on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swim | 1 | #2 | – | 1993 | |
| 2 | Beautiful John | 1 | #36 | – | 1993 | |
| 3 | Lights Go Down | 1 | #44 | – | 1993 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.