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“Oh Daddy” by Adrian Belew

From the album Mr. Music Head (1989)

“Oh Daddy” by Adrian Belew appears on 25 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1989 and 2014. It was first released in 1989 on the album Mr. Music Head. Its best result is #50 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1989. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #65 alternative song of 1989, #960 alternative song of all time and #453 of the '80s.

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"Oh Daddy" was the single off Mr. Music Head, Adrian Belew's fourth solo album and his first for Atlantic, released in April 1989, and it keeps things in the family: Belew wrote it, and his daughter Audie sings on it with him. It was the pair's second duet, following "The Final Rhino", the piano-and-guitar piece they put on Lone Rhino in late 1981, when she was four.

The album grew out of a setback. Belew's band the Bears had folded, against their wishes, for want of record company support, and once he'd landed a solo deal he played most of the new record himself, twisting processed guitar into all manner of strange noises and impressions. "Oh Daddy" went on to reach number 5 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1989 50 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1989 107
1989 58 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1989 90
1989 100 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1989 105

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1991 380 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991) 500
1994 221 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) 500
1996 206 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996) 498
1999 216 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999) 500
1999 722 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 181 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) 500
2000 723 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 183 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) 498
2001 723 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 723 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 1079 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 723 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 1324 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 723 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 722 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1626 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1590 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1603 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1645 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1709 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1771 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1835 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

Charting alongside it in 1989

Best songs of 1989 →
  1. 1Love SongThe Cure
  2. 2StandR.E.M.
  3. 3Here Comes Your ManThe Pixies
  4. 4She Drives Me CrazyFine Young Cannibals
  5. 5Love ShackThe B-52's
  6. 6Personal JesusDepeche Mode

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