Song · Ani DiFranco
“Shy” by Ani DiFranco
From the album Not a Pretty Girl (1995)
“Shy” by Ani DiFranco appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1996 and 2023. It was first released in 1995 on the album Not a Pretty Girl. Its best result is #98 on the WBER Listener Countdown 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #355 alternative song of 1996.
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"Shy" comes from Not a Pretty Girl, the sixth album Ani DiFranco put out in 1995 on her own Righteous Babe Records, and it's about as self-made as a record gets: she wrote it, produced it, sings it and plays both the acoustic guitar and the bass, with Ed Stone engineering. The album around it stuck with the bare acoustic-guitar-and-drums setup she started out with, stripped so far down that Andy Stochansky's percussion was her only company.
The song had a life beyond the album, too. A version released on Living in Clip earned DiFranco a 1997 Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba has quoted it on stage during "Ninety-Seven".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 98 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1996 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 425 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
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