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Burning Sensations
Band United States
Burning Sensations formed in the United States. Burning Sensations has 25 chart appearances on 25 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 1983–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Belly of the Whale”, which appears on 25 lists with a best position of #19. The station that charted Burning Sensations most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1983.
Burning Sensations were a short-lived band out of the Los Angeles area, signed to Capitol Records in the new wave rush of the early '80s, and their self-titled 1983 album gave them "Belly of the Whale", a song that got its big break as an MTV hit. It's a strange and wonderful hybrid: rock guitars bent around a calypso lilt, like a beach party that washed up on the wrong coast.
Tim McGovern, Morley Bartnoff on keyboards and backing vocals, Mike Tempo and Dave Jerden are the names attached to the group. Their other claim on the era is a cover of Jonathan Richman's "Pablo Picasso", which director Alex Cox put into his 1984 film Repo Man and onto its soundtrack. Then they were gone, but "Belly of the Whale" has kept turning up on countdowns ever since.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Burning Sensations on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belly of the Whale | 25 | #19 | – | 1983 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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