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“The Outsider” by A Perfect Circle

From the album Thirteenth Step (2003)

“The Outsider” by A Perfect Circle appears on 22 radio countdowns from 19 stations between 2003 and 2026. It was first released in 2003 on the album Thirteenth Step. Its best result is #8 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #39 alternative song of 2004, #5,716 alternative song of all time and #312 of the '00s.

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"The Outsider" was the second single pulled from A Perfect Circle's 2003 album Thirteenth Step, and it catches the supergroup at its most coiled and muscular. Billy Howerdel wrote it with Maynard James Keenan, produced and engineered it, and plays the guitars that lurch between 6/8 and 4/4 so the song never quite settles, while Josh Freese drums, Jeordie White holds down the bass and Keenan sings with cold, controlled menace. Andy Wallace mixed it.

In 2004 it crossed over onto the Hot 100 as well as the mainstream and modern rock charts, and it found a second life in remixes: James Iha's hushed, synthetic "Frosted Yogurt mix" and Danny Lohner's darker, heavier "Apocalypse Mix", which ended up on the soundtrack to Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2003 86 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2003 89
2003 96 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2003 101
2003 65 WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2003 106
2003 70 Triple J Australia (national) Triple J Hottest 100 of 2003 100
2004 55 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2004 107
2004 36 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2004 91
2004 8 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2004 106
2004 60 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2004 101
2004 72 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2004 100
2004 45 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2004 93
2004 45 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 77 Songs of 2004 77
2004 24 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2004 89
2004 48 Y100 Philadelphia, PA Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2004 99
2004 28 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2004 99
2004 51 (tie) WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2004 227
2004 50 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2004 88
2004 10 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2004 50
2004 16 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2004 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2006 489 Live 105 Live 105 500 Co-Op Countdown (Memorial Day 2006) 500
2010 114 94.1 The Zone 94.1 The Zone 210 Most Played Songs of the Decade 210
2022 379 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498
2026 437 101X 101X 500 (2026) 500

Charting alongside it in 2004

Best songs of 2004 →
  1. 1Somebody Told MeThe Killers
  2. 2American IdiotGreen Day
  3. 3Float OnModest Mouse
  4. 4Take Me OutFranz Ferdinand
  5. 5VertigoU2
  6. 6MegalomaniacIncubus

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