Album · Pete Yorn
musicforthemorningafter by Pete Yorn
musicforthemorningafter is an album by Pete Yorn, released in 2001. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 66 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Life On A Chain”, on 28 lists with a best position of #10.
Pete Yorn's debut, musicforthemorningafter, reached shelves through Columbia on March 27, 2001, but its story starts with a record that never came out. In May 1998 he cut an album called thenightbefore in New York with Don Fleming, playing every instrument himself in about a week, and when Virgin wanted the whole second half redone, Yorn said no and went back to California.
There he met R. Walt Vincent at a Sloan show, and Vincent steered him into digital recording and away from the alt-country flavor of the old tapes. The two built this album in Vincent's garage across 1999. Columbia dangled a parade of big-name producers; Yorn passed, bringing in Brad Wood only to tidy things up, and Ken Andrews of Failure also plays on it. The result is scruffy, heart-sore guitar pop, and "Life On A Chain", "Strange Condition" and "For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is)" carried it. Yorn took it on tour alongside Semisonic and Blues Traveler.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from musicforthemorningafter on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Life On A Chain | 28 | #10 | – | 2001–2026 | |
| 2 | Strange Condition | 18 | #23 | – | 2002–2026 | |
| 3 | For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is) | 20 | #1 | 1 | 2001–2014 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.