Album · Okkervil River
The Stand Ins by Okkervil River
The Stand Ins is an album by Okkervil River, released in 2008. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Lost Coastlines”, on 3 lists with a best position of #38.
The Stand Ins, Okkervil River's fifth full-length, came out on Jagjaguwar on September 9, 2008, and it's the other half of The Stage Names: Will Sheff's Austin band had planned the pair as a double album, and if you stack the two covers, they make one picture. The title comes from the movie stand-in who takes the actor's place while the lights are set up.
Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg and Charles Bissell of the Wrens pitch in, and the band plays with a literate, ragged urgency, wordy and wide-eyed, from "Lost Coastlines" to "Calling & Not Calling My Ex". They promoted it by posting YouTube covers of its songs by people they'd met on the road. It reached number 42 on the Billboard 200, with 11,000 copies sold.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Stand Ins on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lost Coastlines | 3 | #38 | – | 2008–2022 | |
| 2 | Calling & Not Calling My Ex | 2 | #82 | – | 2008–2013 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.