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“That Song” by Big Wreck
From the album In Loving Memory Of… (1997)
“That Song” by Big Wreck appears on 5 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2010. It was first released in 1997 on the album In Loving Memory Of…. Its best result is #56 on the 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of the 90's (September 2010). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,310 alternative song of all time.
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"That Song" was the second single from In Loving Memory Of..., the debut album by Canadian-American rockers Big Wreck, and it went out in April 1998. Ian Thornley wrote it alone, and he has traced it to one moment: walking out of a supermarket feeling fine, until a car whizzed past playing a tune he caught only a few notes of, and suddenly he was brooding over the same person for days. The song lives in that spiral, the urge to wallow and the way the old soundtrack stops working.
It's a slow, moody grind, all wounded bluesy guitar and Thornley's big, aching voice. It didn't match "The Oaf" in America, but Canada took it to heart: number 31 on the singles chart, Platinum certification, and the most-played song by a Canadian act on the country's rock stations between 1995 and 2016.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 74 | CRNC 90.1 | CRNC Top 90.1 Songs of the '90s | 91 |
| 1999 | 387 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
| 2009 | 74 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | The Top 200 Songs of the 90's According to 102.1 The Edge | 200 |
| 2009 | 146 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of All-Time (2009) | 200 |
| 2010 | 56 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of the 90's (September 2010) | 200 |
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