Song · Badly Drawn Boy
“Once Around The Block” by Badly Drawn Boy
From the album The Hour of Bewilderbeast (2000)
“Once Around The Block” by Badly Drawn Boy appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1999 and 2024. It was first released in 2000 on the album The Hour of Bewilderbeast. Its best result is #41 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #361 alternative song of 1999.
"Once Around the Block" comes from The Hour of Bewilderbeast, the debut album Damon Gough released as Badly Drawn Boy in June 2000, a sprawling, one-man-band sort of record that went on to take that year's Mercury Prize. Gough wrote the song, words and music, sings it and produced it, with the awayTEAM credited as co-producers and engineers and Adrian Dacre on drums.
That hands-on approach ran right through the album: across its eighteen tracks Gough did the writing and the producing and played several of the instruments himself, calling in members of Alfie and Doves to fill out some of the songs. Even the sleeve had a story: Andy Votel's collage, loosely modelled on Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, lost its photograph of Woody Allen in America because the picture's copyright owners had never approved it.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 41 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1999 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 377 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2024 | 619 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
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