“Feel Good Drag” by Anberlin

"Feel Good Drag" had a past before it became Anberlin's big moment. The band first cut it, as "The Feel Good Drag", on their second album, Never Take Friendship Personal, then recorded it again for New Surrender in 2008, their first record for a major label, Universal Republic, and sent it out as the lead single. Neal Avron produced, recorded and mixed the new version, with Erich Talaba engineering, and Stephen Christian's words ride on music he wrote with Joseph Milligan, Deon Rexroat and Nathan Young.

Then came the long haul. After a week's delay it reached radio in late August 2008, and it spent 29 weeks crawling up the Alternative Songs chart before it finally hit the top, the slowest climb since that chart began in 1988. It later landed in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and went gold in 2014.

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