Album · Urge Overkill
Saturation by Urge Overkill
Saturation is an album by Urge Overkill, released in 1993. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 60 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Sister Havana”, on 35 lists with a best position of #16.
Saturation, Urge Overkill's fourth album and their first for Geffen, came out in 1993, and the Chicago band made no secret of it: this was a deliberate shot at a hit record. The Butcher Bros. produced it, and unusually Nash Kato, not King Roeser, sings lead on almost all of it. The sound is swanky, sleazy alternative rock with a crooner's cool, all crunchy riffs, lounge-lizard swagger and strange, surreal lyrics. "Sister Havana" is the big one, a slinky, sun-drenched anthem that reached number 6 on the modern rock chart and number 10 on mainstream rock, while "Positive Bleeding" became a minor rock radio hit. Critics praised its variety and its odd, out-of-time production, and it had sold 277,000 copies in the US by 2013. The cover art, by Robert Fisher, is a stylized Houston skyline.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Saturation on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sister Havana | 35 | #16 | – | 1993–2024 | |
| 2 | Back On Me | 14 | #1087 | – | 1999–2014 | |
| 3 | Positive Bleeding | 10 | #476 | – | 1999–2022 | |
| 4 | Dropout | 1 | #71 | – | 1994 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.