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“Somewhere In My Heart” by Aztec Camera
From the album Love (1987)
“Somewhere In My Heart” by Aztec Camera appears on 6 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1988 and 2004. It was first released in 1987 on the album Love. Its best result is #49 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1988. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #81 alternative song of 1988 and #3,004 alternative song of all time.
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"Somewhere in My Heart" came off Love, Aztec Camera's third album, in 1987, and Roddy Frame, who wrote it, spent a while convinced it didn't belong there. It sounded too odd beside the rest of the record, he reckoned, and would do better tucked away as a B-side. Michael Jonzun's production argues otherwise: bright, punchy and polished to a showroom shine, it's Frame's pop at its most irresistible.
Behind the gloss, Frame was living like a hermit in a wooden shack at Marple Bridge, in the hills above Manchester, in a spot actually called Hollywood, riding out the highs and lows of his mental health and writing all the while, so the song's Hollywood was closer to home than it looked. Issued as a single in 1988, it climbed to number three in Britain and made the top 40 in Australia and Ireland.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 49 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1988 | 106 |
| 1988 | 61 | WLIR / WDRE Long Island, NY | WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1988 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 275 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2002 | 852 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 566 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2004 | 256 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 500 |
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