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“Goody Two Shoes” by Adam Ant

From the album Friend or Foe (1982)

“Goody Two Shoes” by Adam Ant appears on 41 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 1982 and 2014. It was first released in 1982 on the album Friend or Foe. Its best result is #25 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1982. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #39 alternative song of 1982, #424 alternative song of all time and #213 of the '80s.

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"Goody Two Shoes" was Adam Ant's first single as a solo act in 1982, the opening shot of the Friend or Foe era, and it came roaring out of the gate. He wrote and produced it with Marco Pirroni, sings it, and plays bass and acoustic guitar on it himself.

The song is a sly jab at the British tabloids, who couldn't stop fussing over how clean Ant was living. He answers them with a strutting, brass-happy romp: Jeff Daly's saxophone and Martin Drover's trumpet blaring like a marching band on a sugar rush, Bogdan Wiczling's drums pounding out a stomp you can't sit still through, and Ant yelping and crooning over the top, every inch the showman.

Britain sent it to number one, his third there after two with Adam and the Ants, and in America it climbed to number 12, the highest he ever got.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1982 25 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1982 107

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
– 82 WLIR / WDRE WLIR Top 200 Songs of the 1980s 200
1989 85 91X 91X Top 191 Songs of the 1980s (1989) 191
1989 258 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989) 495
1989 209 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989) 500
1991 411 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991) 500
1992 226 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992) 500
1994 398 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1994) 497
1994 94 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994) 500
1994 33 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) 500
1995 413 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995) 500
1995 112 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 300 (July 1995) 300
1996 326 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996) 500
1996 120 Q101 Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) 500
1996 42 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996) 498
1998 162 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998) 488
1999 295 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 120 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 60 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999) 500
1999 925 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
1999 480 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) 1002
2000 337 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) 500
2000 976 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 337 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) 498
2001 978 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 417 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2002) 500
2002 978 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 204 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 484 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2003) 500
2003 963 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 134 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 963 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 491 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005) 500
2005 962 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1502 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1434 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1447 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1477 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1544 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1583 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1607 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

Also listed as: Goodie Two Shoes; Two Shoes.

Charting alongside it in 1982

Best songs of 1982 →
  1. 1Town Called MaliceThe Jam
  2. 2Rock the CasbahThe Clash
  3. 3Should I Stay or Should I Go?The Clash
  4. 4Promised You a MiracleSimple Minds
  5. 5TemptationNew Order
  6. 6I Ran (So Far Away)A Flock of Seagulls

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