Song · Blind Melon
“Galaxie” by Blind Melon
Released 1995
“Galaxie” by Blind Melon appears on 12 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 1995 and 2026. It was first released in 1995. Its best result is #50 on the Radio & Records Top 95 Songs of 1995. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #99 alternative song of 1995 and #6,050 alternative song of all time.
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"Galaxie" rolled out of Soup, Blind Melon's second album, in 1995, and it's a car song that keeps swerving into heartbreak. The car was real: Shannon Hoon's Ford Galaxie, a cheap used buy from New Orleans whose doors wouldn't open, and he rides it straight into his first love and the way it ended. The song began life as "I'm a Freak", but Hoon hated those words and wouldn't sing them.
When the sessions wore on him, he'd take the Galaxie out and drive around town, and Glen Graham suspects that's where the finished lyric came from, though Hoon never said so. The writing credit is split five ways, among Hoon, Graham, Brad Smith, Rogers Stevens and Christopher Thorn, and the video, built around a Ford Galaxie, has a cameo from Timothy Leary.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 106 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1995 | 107 |
| 1995 | 53 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1995 | 91 |
| 1995 | 98 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1995 | 101 |
| 1995 | 103 | Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT | WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 1995 | 104 |
| 1995 | 86 | 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL | The Buzz Top 103 Alternative Songs of '95 | 103 |
| 1995 | 50 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 95 Songs of 1995 | 95 |
| 1995 | 90 | WDRE Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA | WDRE Top 103.9 Songs of 1995 | 104 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 1382 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2021 | 670 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
| 2022 | 727 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2022 | 181 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2026 | 573 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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