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“Tired Of Being Alone” by Al Green
From the album Gets Next to You (1971)
“Tired Of Being Alone” by Al Green appears on 7 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2001 and 2022. It was first released in 1971 on the album Gets Next to You. Its best result is #142 on the WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,424 indie & aaa song of all time and #239 of the '70s.
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Al Green wrote "Tired of Being Alone" back in late 1968 and meant it for Green Is Blues the next year, but the first recording didn't come off, so the song went on the shelf. The second go-round reworked it, and it finally surfaced on Al Green Gets Next to You in 1971. Willie Mitchell produced it and ran the tape at Hi Records, then mixed it with Terry Manning.
It's a soul plea from a man who has had his fill of loneliness, and it connected: number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 7 on the soul chart, and Billboard's 12th biggest song of 1971. Green sang it with Chicago on the 1973 TV special Chicago in the Rockies, and Rolling Stone later slotted it at number 293 when it counted down the 500 greatest songs ever.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 142 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2014 | 671 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014) | 885 |
| 2018 | 766 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs | 892 |
| 2020 | 1080 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 240 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s | 908 |
| 2022 | 1373 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2022 | 786 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
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