Song · Billy Idol
“Bitter Taste” by Billy Idol
From the EP The Roadside EP (2021)
“Bitter Taste” by Billy Idol appears on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations in 2021. It was first released in 2021 on the EP The Roadside EP. Its best result is #4 on the WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2021. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #57 indie & aaa song of 2021 and #355 of the '20s.
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"Bitter Taste" was the lead single from The Roadside, the EP that brought Billy Idol back in September 2021 with his first new material since Kings & Queens of the Underground in 2014. It also marked his arrival on George Harrison's Dark Horse Records, and his first EP of any kind since Don't Stop back in 1981.
The song reaches back to his 1990 motorcycle crash, the one that nearly cost him a leg. Idol has said he had never written about it before; he needed three decades of letting it sit before he could. Butch Walker produced the EP, and Steve Stevens, Idol's guitarist of long standing, plays across all of it and shares the writing credit with Idol, Tommy English and Joe Janiak.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2021 | 89 |
| 2021 | 27 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2021 | 88 |
| 2021 | 59 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2021 | 104 |
| 2021 | 87 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2021 | 89 |
| 2021 | 4 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2021 | 107 |
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