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“Hunger Of The Pine” by Alt J
From the album This Is All Yours (2014)
“Hunger Of The Pine” by Alt J appears on 9 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2014 and 2019. It was first released in 2014 on the album This Is All Yours. Its best result is #19 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2014. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #80 alternative song of 2014.
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"Hunger of the Pine" was Alt-J's first word from their second album, This Is All Yours, released as the lead single on 19 June 2014. It was one of the songs they wrote after bassist Gwil Sainsbury left the band that January, and it's the sound of a trio regrouping: Joe Newman's guitar and voice, Gus Unger-Hamilton's keyboards and Thom Green's drums, sparse and slow-building. Charlie Andrew produced, engineered and mixed it.
The twist is a vocal snippet from Miley Cyrus's 2013 song "4x4". Green had remixed that track for her and brought the sample back with him, and Cyrus gave it her blessing. Unger-Hamilton explained the song as being about how missing someone can ache in the body like hunger, which is exactly how it feels: a slow, gnawing pull that finally breaks open.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 94 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2014 | 103 |
| 2014 | 65 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2014 | 90 |
| 2014 | 28 | 96.5 The Buzz Kansas City, MO-KS | 96.5 The Buzz Top 96 Songs of 2014 | 96 |
| 2014 | 109 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2014 | 200 |
| 2014 | 19 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2014 | 89 |
| 2014 | 26 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2014 | 100 |
| 2015 | 70 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2015 | 103 |
| 2015 | 25 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2015 | 103 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 351 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
Also listed as: Hunger of the Pine.
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