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Summerteeth by Wilco
Summerteeth is an album by Wilco, released in 1999. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 26 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “A Shot In The Arm”, on 6 lists with a best position of #173.
Summerteeth, Wilco's third album, came out on Reprise on March 9, 1999, and it's the sound of the Chicago band slipping out of its alt-country boots for good. Instead of cutting songs live as a band with a handful of overdubs, Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett wrote most of this one in the studio and piled on layer after layer in Pro Tools, so the tunes come dressed in keyboards and sunny pop gloss, with John Stirratt's bass and Ken Coomer's drums keeping them on the ground.
The catch is what's underneath: Tweedy's lyrics draw on 20th-century literature and on his own troubled marriage, and the brightness keeps curdling into something darker. Critics raved, from AllMusic to the Chicago Tribune and The Village Voice, but it sold only around 200,000 copies, modest next to Being There. A David Kahne remix of "Can't Stand It" was meant to win over radio, and didn't.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Summerteeth on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Shot In The Arm | 6 | #173 | – | 2016–2025 | |
| 2 | Via Chicago | 5 | #158 | – | 2016–2023 | |
| 3 | Can't Stand It | 11 | #3 | – | 1999–2014 | |
| 4 | I'm Always in Love | 2 | #8 | – | 1999–2023 | |
| 5 | She's a Jar | 2 | #154 | – | 2001–2009 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.