Song · Badflower
“Ghost” by Badflower
From the album OK, I’m Sick (2019)
“Ghost” by Badflower appears on 7 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2018 and 2023. It was first released in 2019 on the album OK, I’m Sick. Its best result is #9 on the 93X Top 93 Songs of the Decade (2010s). In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #157 alternative song of 2018.
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"Ghost" led the way for Badflower's debut album, OK, I'm Sick: Big Machine Records put it out as a single on June 8, 2018, well before the album itself arrived in 2019. It's a hard rock song about suicide and attempts at it, and Josh Katz wrote it out of the panic attacks that had hit him on stage every night of a tour and kept coming after the shows.
Katz never meant it to be a single; Big Machine pushed for it, and he went along reluctantly. Noah Shain produced and recorded it and shares the writing credit with the four players: Katz on lead vocals and guitar, Joey Morrow on guitar, Alex Espiritu on bass and Anthony Sonetti on drums. Chris Lord-Alge mixed it. For all that reluctance, there's nothing tentative about the way it lands.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 32 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2018 | 99 |
| 2018 | 16 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2018 | 98 |
| 2018 | 11 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2018 | 99 |
| 2018 | 17 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2018 | 30 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 9 | 93X | 93X Top 93 Songs of the Decade (2010s) | 93 |
| 2021 | 16 | KISW | KISW 25 Greatest Rock Songs from the '10s | 25 |
| 2023 | 51 | 94.1 WJJO | WJJO Frequent Rocker Top 100 Songs of 2023 | 100 |
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