Song · Buckcherry
“Lit Up” by Buckcherry
From the album Buckcherry (1999)
“Lit Up” by Buckcherry appears on 7 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1999 and 2020. It was first released in 1999 on the album Buckcherry. Its best result is #21 on the 89X Top 89 Songs of 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #114 alternative song of 1999 and #6,690 alternative song of all time.
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"Lit Up" kicked the door in for Buckcherry as the first single from their self-titled 1999 debut on DreamWorks, and it wears its sleaze proudly. The opening riff is lifted from the intro of Kiss' "Shock Me", and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols not only plays guitar on it but co-produced with Terry Date, who also engineered and mixed.
Josh Todd, who wrote it with Jonathan Brightman, Devon Glenn and Keith Nelson, has said it's about his first go at cocaine, back when he knew a couple of dealers in high school, and the fun that eventually stopped being fun. MTV blanked out the lines that sounded like a toast to the drug. It spent three weeks on top of the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the band's only trip to the summit there, and VH1 later counted it among the 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 95 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999 | 100 |
| 1999 | 35 | K-Rock New York, NY | K-Rock Top 92 Songs of 1999 | 92 |
| 1999 | 21 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 1999 | 89 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 636 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 335 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2020 | 403 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2020) | 420 |
| 2020 | 439 | DC101 | The DC101 Top 500 | 500 |
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