Song · Aimee Mann
“Save Me” by Aimee Mann
From the album Bachelor Nº 2 (or, The Last Remains of the Dodo) (1999)
“Save Me” by Aimee Mann appears on 13 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2004 and 2026. It was first released in 1999 on the album Bachelor Nº 2 (or, The Last Remains of the Dodo). Its best result is #69 on the WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #800 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Aimee Mann wrote "Save Me" for the 1999 film Magnolia, and it went out on the soundtrack as well as on her own Bachelor Nº 2 (or, The Last Remains of the Dodo). She produced it herself, sings lead and plays acoustic guitar and bass, with Michael Lockwood on electric guitar and melodica, Patrick Warren on keyboards and accordion, John Sands on drums and percussion, and Jon Brion, Buddy Judge and Lockwood on backing vocals.
The actor and comedian Dave Foley has said she wrote it about him while they were together, and reckons he's the only man she ever wrote a kind song about. She sang it at the 72nd Academy Awards, where it lost Best Original Song to Phil Collins's "You'll Be in My Heart", and it drew a Grammy nomination as well. Mann later likened the jolt it gave her career to a blood transfusion.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 867 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
| 2009 | 400 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Essential Songs | 913 |
| 2009 | 487 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2016 | 765 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2019 | 69 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 69 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2021 | 180 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
| 2022 | 800 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2022 | 1035 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2022 | 1118 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2022 | 479 | KEXP | KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) | 491 |
| 2024 | 448 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2026 | 736 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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