Song · Bloc Party
“This Modern Love” by Bloc Party
From the album Silent Alarm (2004)
“This Modern Love” by Bloc Party appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2009 and 2024. It was first released in 2004 on the album Silent Alarm. Its best result is #511 on the KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,121 indie & aaa song of all time.
"This Modern Love" comes from Silent Alarm, the debut album Bloc Party recorded in Copenhagen and London in mid-2004 with Paul Epworth producing alongside the band. Kele Okereke sings lead and splits the writing credit four ways with Russell Lissack, Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong; Eliot James recorded it and added production, Joe Hirst assisted on the engineering, and Rich Costey mixed.
The band shaped those songs mostly through live takes in the studio, working up the arrangements from their 2004 demos, and built them on rhythm, guitar riffs locked in tight with the bass and drums. Across the record Okereke's words turn over what young adults feel and hope for. "This Modern Love" was never one of the album's singles, a list that ran to "Helicopter", "Banquet", "The Pioneers" and the double A-side "So Here We Are/Positive Tension".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 726 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2019 | 511 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
| 2024 | 880 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
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