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Ambulance LTD

Band East Harlem United States Active 2000–2006

Ambulance LTD formed in 2000 in East Harlem, United States and was active until 2006. Ambulance LTD has 11 chart appearances on 11 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Primitive (The Way I Treat You)”, which appears on 10 lists with a best position of #59. The station that charted Ambulance LTD most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 9 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.

11appearances

11countdowns

2songs charted

3stations

0#1 finishes

2004–2022years

Ambulance LTD started in Spanish Harlem in 2000, founded by Michael Di Liberto and David Longstreth, two transplants from Cleveland, with Marcus Congleton joining about a year later and carrying the name and the ideas forward with a new cast. Their live shows won them good notices and a deal with TVT Records, and their self-titled EP in 2003 carried "Primitive (The Way I Treat You)", a woozy, shimmering thing that the countdowns latched on to.

The sound is dream pop and indie rock soaked in the fuzz of British shoegaze, with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in its bloodstream alongside Spiritualized, My Bloody Valentine and Elliott Smith. They took pride in refusing to settle into any one niche. The debut album, LP, came out in the US on March 23, 2004, and its worldwide sales eventually topped 100,000, and New English EP followed in March 2006.

The lineup came apart around that debut: keyboard player Andrew Haskell left just before it came out, and Matthew Dublin and Darren Beckett split off to form the Red Romance, leaving Congleton on his own. He kept the name and toured in 2008 with a new backing band, but TVT's bankruptcy stopped any new releases, and in June 2008 he joined the Polyphonic Spree in suing the label and its parent company. The band got back together for two nights at New York's Mercury Lounge in February 2019.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Ambulance LTD on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Primitive (The Way I Treat You)	316	10	#59	–	2004
2	Primitives (The Way I Treat You)	65	1	#36	–	2004

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

2003Ambulance LTD EP1 charting song

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2022	746	Primitive (The Way I Treat You)	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s
2014	1439	Primitive (The Way I Treat You)	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013	1376	Primitive (The Way I Treat You)	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011	1320	Primitive (The Way I Treat You)	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010	1266	Primitive (The Way I Treat You)	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009	1234	Primitive (The Way I Treat You)	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008	1215	Primitive (The Way I Treat You)	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007	1085	Primitive (The Way I Treat You)	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2004	59	Primitive (The Way I Treat You)	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2004
2004	36	Primitives (The Way I Treat You)	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2004
2004	2002	Primitive (The Way I Treat You)	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)

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