Song · Breaking Benjamin
“Lights Out” by Breaking Benjamin
From the album Dear Agony (2009)
“Lights Out” by Breaking Benjamin appears on 7 radio countdowns from 7 stations in 2010. It was first released in 2009 on the album Dear Agony. Its best result is #5 on the 89X Top 89 Songs of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #95 alternative song of 2010 and #394 of the '10s.
Dear Agony, Breaking Benjamin's fourth album, gave up "Lights Out" as its third single in June 2010, and Benjamin Burnley wrote it with Jasen Rauch. By Burnley's account, Rauch came up with the riff and a few other pieces; the two went back to an old tour, when Rauch handed him a CD of rough early RED material, and Burnley came to see him as his writing partner, someone who wrote songs the way he wished he could write them himself.
Burnley sings lead and plays guitar with Aaron Fink, Mark James Klepaski is on bass and Chad Szeliga on drums and percussion. David Bendeth produced it and arranged it with Burnley, and Dan Korneff mixed. It's alternative metal built to clench and release.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 74 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2010 | 101 |
| 2010 | 5 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2010 | 89 |
| 2010 | 22 | KFMA Tucson, AZ | KFMA Top 50 Songs of 2010 | 50 |
| 2010 | 56 | 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO | 105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2010 | 105 |
| 2010 | 26 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2010 | 88 |
| 2010 | 57 | 90.5 WERG Erie, PA | WERG Top 90 of 2010 | 90 |
| 2010 | 63 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2010 | 99 |
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