Song · Beth Orton
“She Cries Your Name” by Beth Orton
From the album Superpinkymandy (1993)
“She Cries Your Name” by Beth Orton appears on 14 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 1997 and 2026. It was first released in 1993 on the album Superpinkymandy. Its best result is #35 on the WEQX Top 102.7 of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #162 alternative song of 1997 and #7,517 alternative song of all time.
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"She Cries Your Name" took the long road to its best-known form. The first version surfaced on her 1993 debut, Superpinkymandy, a song she wrote with William Orbit. Orbit then put it on his own Strange Cargo Hinterland in 1995, stripped of her verses but keeping her voice on the chorus and the original backing.
The one most people know came next: reworked with different production, it opened the account for her second album, Trailer Park, as its lead single in September 1996. That release stalled at number 76 in the UK, but the song refused to go away, and a June 1997 reissue with fresh B-sides pushed it to number 40. Its life on the countdowns has lasted far longer than its chart run.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 83 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1997 | 99 |
| 1997 | 35 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1997 | 103 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 496 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) | 500 |
| 2001 | 490 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) | 498 |
| 2001 | 1174 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2004 | 184 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
| 2009 | 231 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Essential Songs | 913 |
| 2019 | 769 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 769 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2022 | 734 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2023 | 573 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
| 2024 | 629 | KEXP | The Best Opening Tracks of All Time | 738 |
| 2025 | 407 | WFPK | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s | 500 |
| 2026 | 512 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
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