Song · Alkaline Trio
“Help Me” by Alkaline Trio
From the EP Agony & Irony EP (2008)
“Help Me” by Alkaline Trio appears on 10 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 2008 and 2009. It was first released in 2008 on the EP Agony & Irony EP. Its best result is #29 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2008. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #58 alternative song of 2008.
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"Help Me" was the first single from Alkaline Trio's 2008 album Agony & Irony, hitting radio on April 22 of that year, and it's the Chicago punk band wearing its Joy Division heart on its sleeve. Matt Skiba, the band's singer and guitarist and a longtime Joy Division fan, drew the words from Anton Corbijn's 2007 film Control, the biopic of Ian Curtis, and the single's cover art took its cue from Peter Saville's sleeve for "Love Will Tear Us Apart".
Skiba wrote it with Dan Andriano and Derek Grant, and it paid off: it went to 14 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, the highest any Alkaline Trio single has climbed. The B-side was their take on Tegan and Sara's "Wake Up Exhausted", cut with Jim Devito at Retrophonics Studio in St. Augustine, Florida.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 49 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2008 | 91 |
| 2008 | 45 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2008 | 105 |
| 2008 | 29 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2008 | 88 |
| 2008 | 77 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2008 | 99 |
| 2008 | 68 | 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL | Buzz 103.1 Top 103 Buzz Cuts of 2008 | 103 |
| 2008 | 40 | 94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY | 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2008 | 94 |
| 2008 | 47 | KFMA Tucson, AZ | KFMA Top 50 Songs of 2008 | 50 |
| 2008 | 72 | 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO | 105.7 The Point Top 106 Songs of 2008 | 105 |
| 2008 | 53 | KWOD Sacramento, CA | KWOD Top 106 Songs of 2008 | 106 |
| 2009 | 91 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2009 | 106 |
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