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Oh, Inverted World by The Shins
Oh, Inverted World is an album by The Shins, released in 2001. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 61 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “New Slang”, on 54 lists with a best position of #3.
Oh, Inverted World, the Shins' debut, came out on June 19, 2001, and it's the sound of James Mercer's side project quietly outgrowing the band it was meant to sit beside. Mercer started the Shins in Albuquerque as an offshoot of Flake Music and produced this record himself, with Jesse Sandoval, Martin Crandall and Neal Langford filling out the lineup. Omnibus pressed the first vinyl before Sub Pop reissued it.
It's a small, sunlit, slightly warped thing: chiming guitars, reverb-soaked harmonies, melodies that twist off somewhere you never saw coming, and Mercer's curious, yearning voice holding it all together. Critics fell for it straight away. Then, three years on, the film Garden State put "New Slang" and "Caring Is Creepy" on its soundtrack, and a whole new crowd found a record that had been sitting there waiting for them.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Oh, Inverted World on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Slang | 54 | #3 | – | 2001–2026 | |
| 2 | Caring Is Creepy | 7 | #181 | – | 2005–2024 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.