Song · Andrew Bird
“Fake Palindromes” by Andrew Bird
From the album The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005)
“Fake Palindromes” by Andrew Bird appears on 5 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2009 and 2025. It was first released in 2005 on the album The Mysterious Production of Eggs. Its best result is #244 on the WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,197 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Fake Palindromes" comes from The Mysterious Production of Eggs, the album Andrew Bird released on Righteous Babe on February 8, 2005: his third solo record, and his second since Bowl of Fire came apart. Bird wrote the words and the music himself, and Dan Dietrich handled the recording.
The album found Bird building on what he had started with Weather Systems, and it came dressed in Jay Ryan's artwork, right down to the illustrations for each track in the booklet. The song has held up: Pitchfork later ranked it the 331st best song of the 2000s.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 244 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2009 | 352 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Essential Songs | 913 |
| 2016 | 758 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2025 | 473 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2025 | 349 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
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