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“Digging Your Scene” by Blow Monkeys

From the album Animal Magic (1986)

“Digging Your Scene” by Blow Monkeys appears on 16 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1986 and 2023. It was first released in 1986 on the album Animal Magic. Its best result is #43 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1986. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #98 alternative song of 1986 and #2,272 alternative song of all time.

16countdowns

7stations

#43best position

0#1 finishes

0top 10 finishes

1986–2023years charted

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"Digging Your Scene" slinked out in February 1986 as the second single from Animal Magic, the Blow Monkeys' second album, and it's a sly piece of work. Dr. Robert, the band's singer born Robert Howard, wrote a velvet-lined blend of pop, soul and jazz that goes down like a cocktail-bar come-on, but underneath the croon it takes quiet aim at the hatred heaped on people living with HIV and AIDS.

Howard produced it with Peter Wilson and Adam Moesley, and Michael Baker added extra recording and mix work. Critics liked it and heard a radio single, and they called it right: it climbed to 12 in the UK, the band's highest placing up to then, and 14 in the US.

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
1986	43	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1986	107

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1988	389	KROQ	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988)	496
1992	441	KROQ	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992)	500
1992	297	Live 105	Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1992)	299
1999	568	Q101	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	1017
2002	1295	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)	2002
2003	1790	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)	2044
2007	1259	CD101	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)	2008
2008	1202	CD101	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)	2009
2009	1220	CD101	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)	2010
2010	1250	CD101	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)	2011
2011	1303	CD101	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)	2011
2013	1360	CD101	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)	2012
2014	1422	CD101	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)	2013
2022	875	WYEP	WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022	603
2023	745	The Colorado Sound	The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s	850

Also listed as: Diggin' Your Scene.

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