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“I Ain't The Same” by Alabama Shakes
From the album Boys & Girls (2012)
“I Ain't The Same” by Alabama Shakes appears on 10 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 2012 and 2025. It was first released in 2012 on the album Boys & Girls. Its best result is #18 on the Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2012. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #311 alternative song of 2012.
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"I Ain't the Same" is a cut from Boys & Girls, the 2012 debut that Alabama Shakes put out on ATO Records. The band produced it themselves and mixed it with engineer Andrija Tokic, the writing credit goes to Brittany Howard, Heath Fogg, Zac Cockrell and Steve Johnson, and Paul Horton plays organ and piano.
The album around it welds blues to rock 'n' roll, with Southern soul at the root and a rough, grainy finish, and it borrows some muscle from hard rock and punk along the way. It made a big entrance, reaching 6 on the Billboard 200 and 3 in the UK, though not every critic was won over: NME's Gavin Haynes heard a record as note-perfect as any that year that was also, too often, strangely lifeless.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 18 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2012 | 101 |
| 2012 | 91 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2012 | 103 |
| 2012 | 50 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2012 | 50 |
| 2012 | 70 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2012 | 89 |
| 2012 | 43 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2012 | 107 |
| 2012 | 176 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012 | 200 |
| 2012 | 64 | 96.5 The Buzz Kansas City, MO-KS | 96.5 The Buzz Top 96 Songs of 2012 | 96 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 510 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2024 | 564 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2025 | 717 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
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