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Dulcinea by Toad The Wet Sprocket
Dulcinea is an album by Toad The Wet Sprocket, released in 1994. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 65 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Something's Always Wrong”, on 27 lists with a best position of #38.
Dulcinea, Toad the Wet Sprocket's 1994 follow-up to Fear, was recorded in Marin County and released on Columbia, and it takes its name from the woman Don Quixote pines for in Cervantes' novel. Glen Phillips, Todd Nichols, Dean Dinning and Randy Guss fill it with gentle, chiming folk-rock and songs that think hard about life: "Windmills" is about wasting years chasing impossible goals, "Crowing" about someone who can't keep hold of a lover, and "Fly from Heaven" is sung as James, Jesus's brother, angry at how Paul bent his brother's message. "Begin" and "Reincarnation Song" wrestle with death and what comes after. Jason Holley's windmill artwork carries the theme onto the sleeve.
"Fall Down" and "Something's Always Wrong" both made the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock lists, and the album went gold in September 1994 and platinum the following July. Phillips has called it probably his favorite Toad record, made when the band knew what they were doing but hadn't started overthinking it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Dulcinea on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something's Always Wrong | 27 | #38 | – | 1994–2022 | |
| 2 | Fall Down | 24 | #4 | – | 1994–2022 | |
| 3 | Fly From Heaven | 14 | #1077 | – | 1999–2014 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.