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Goodbye Jumbo by World Party
Goodbye Jumbo is an album by World Party, released in 1990. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 77 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Way Down Now”, on 28 lists with a best position of #40.
Goodbye Jumbo, World Party's second album, arrived in May 1990, and it's a big, sunny, kaleidoscopic pop-rock record from a Welsh-British outfit that sounds steeped in vintage psychedelia. The guitars chime, the grooves roll, and the whole thing has the warm, woozy glow of neo-psychedelia without ever losing sight of a good chorus.
"Way Down Now" led the charge as the first single and spent five weeks on top of Billboard's alternative chart, a loose, strutting groove that sounds tossed off in the best possible way. "Put the Message in the Box" followed it to number 8 with an open-hearted, singalong lilt, and "Is It Too Late?" and "Take It Up" carry the same easy swing.
Critics mostly liked it, and it got to number 73 on the Billboard 200 and number 36 in the UK. It sits between Private Revolution and Bang! in the band's catalog.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Goodbye Jumbo on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Way Down Now | 28 | #40 | – | 1990–2022 | |
| 2 | Put The Message In The Box | 20 | #57 | – | 1999–2025 | |
| 3 | Is It Too Late? | 15 | #460 | – | 1999–2016 | |
| 4 | Take It Up | 14 | #624 | – | 1999–2014 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.