Song · Billy Idol
“Scream” by Billy Idol
From the album Devil's Playground (2005)
“Scream” by Billy Idol appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2005. It was first released in 2005 on the album Devil's Playground. Its best result is #157 on the ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #473 alternative song of 2005.
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Billy Idol came back swinging with "Scream", the lone single pulled from Devil's Playground, his sixth studio album, in 2005, and it gave him his first hit in more than a decade, the last having been "Speed" in 1994. He wrote it with drummer Brian Tichy as a companion piece to "Rebel Yell", matching its shape and its lyrical game with the roles reversed: this time a woman is the one making him scream. Idol had carrying on in mind more than the charts, and the song doubles as notice that he had no plans to stop.
Steve Stevens plays guitar, Stephen McGrath bass and Derek Sherinian keyboards, Keith Forsey produced, and Brian Reeves mixed. It reached 26 on the US Mainstream Rock chart, though Billboard felt it didn't quite pull off its borrowed Nirvana dynamic of hushed verse and howling chorus.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 157 | ModernRock.com Online | ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005 | 400 |
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