Song · Beck
“Dear Life” by Beck
Released 2017
“Dear Life” by Beck appears on 11 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2017 and 2025. It was first released in 2017. Its best result is #14 on the WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #19 indie & aaa song of 2017, #5,442 indie & aaa song of all time and #278 of the '10s.
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"Dear Life" arrived on August 24, 2017, a Beck song that is mostly a two-man job until the strings show up. Beck and Greg Kurstin wrote and produced it together and split almost everything between them: Beck sings lead and plays guitar, bass, piano, organ, synthesizer, keyboards, glockenspiel and percussion, while Kurstin covers drums, Mellotron and marimba on top of his own guitar, bass, piano and keyboard parts.
And show up they do: eight violinists, three violists and four cellists, with Nico Abondolo and Geoff Osika adding bass. A small army of engineers and recordists worked the sessions, and John Hanes mixed it with Kurstin. The result is a pop song with an arranger's appetite, every corner packed and polished.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 14 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2017 | 89 |
| 2017 | 30 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2017 | 50 |
| 2017 | 63 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2017 | 89 |
| 2017 | 63 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2017 | 90 |
| 2017 | 95 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2017 | 200 |
| 2017 | 33 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2017 | 88 |
| 2017 | 41 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2017 | 104 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 243 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
| 2019 | 822 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 822 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2025 | 694 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
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