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“In The Blood” by Better Than Ezra

From the album Deluxe (1993)

“In The Blood” by Better Than Ezra appears on 22 radio countdowns from 14 stations between 1995 and 2022. It was first released in 1993 on the album Deluxe. Its best result is #12 on the Radio & Records Top 95 Songs of 1995. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #40 alternative song of 1995, #2,615 alternative song of all time and #346 of the '90s.

22countdowns
14stations
#12best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1995–2022years charted

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Kevin Griffin wrote both the words and music of "In the Blood", and Better Than Ezra picked it as the second single from Deluxe, their major-label debut album, putting it out in June 1995. Dan Rothchild produced and recorded it.

Griffin, the band's frontman, kept its meaning mostly to himself for years. In a 2021 interview he explained that it was really about AIDS: his girlfriend at the time had an uncle in the last stage of the illness, and the song wonders how well anyone knows a partner, and who that partner loved before. It reached number four on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and six on Mainstream Rock, and with no commercial single in the shops it couldn't enter the Hot 100, though airplay alone took it to 48 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart.

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#StationCountdownof
1995 63 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1995 107
1995 88 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1995 91
1995 21 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1995 101
1995 22 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1995 100
1995 85 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL The Buzz Top 103 Alternative Songs of '95 103
1995 36 Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 1995 104
1995 12 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 95 Songs of 1995 95
1995 49 WDRE Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA WDRE Top 103.9 Songs of 1995 104

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 299 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 854 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 780 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 1429 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 1429 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1431 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1429 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 1387 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 1415 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1415 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1414 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 774 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2021 280 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2022 390 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900

Also listed as: In the Blood.

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