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“Around My Head” by Cage The Elephant

From the album Thank You, Happy Birthday (2011)

“Around My Head” by Cage The Elephant appears on 22 radio countdowns from 19 stations between 2011 and 2014. It was first released in 2011 on the album Thank You, Happy Birthday. Its best result is #13 on the WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #36 alternative song of 2011, #6,962 alternative song of all time and #130 of the '10s.

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#13best position
0#1 finishes
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2011–2014years charted

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"Around My Head" was the second single from Thank You, Happy Birthday, Cage the Elephant's second album, where it sits ninth in the running order, and it went out worldwide on May 4, 2011. It creeps in on a soft guitar riff, with Matt Shultz singing a melody that shadows the riff note for note, before his voice tears loose. The Pixies are cited as the spark, and Shultz has said he wanted his yelling to sound like Black Francis. The whole band shares the writing credit: Jared Champion, Lincoln Parish, Brad Shultz, Matt Shultz and Daniel Tichenor.

Chris Marrs Piliero's video, out that June, is a gleefully morbid joke: after a woman's funeral, a sleepless Shultz digs her up and drags her zombie-like corpse along to parties, restaurants and barbecues. The band played it live 92 times, Lollapalooza 2012 among them, then retired it after September 2012.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2011 79 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2011 101
2011 88 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2011 89
2011 40 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 102 Songs of 2011 102
2011 73 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON 102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2011 102
2011 49 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2011 99
2011 36 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2011 98
2011 53 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO 105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2011 105
2011 34 89.9 WLCA St. Louis, MO WLCA Top 89 of 2011 89
2011 37 KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA KSLG Top 94 Slugtracks of 2011 94
2011 62 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL 97X Top 97 of 2011 97
2011 63 94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2011 94
2011 17 Rock 93.5 Columbia, SC Rock 93.5 WARQ Top 93 of 2011 92
2011 37 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2011 49
2011 28 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2011 88
2011 71 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2011 103
2011 85 89.7 The River Omaha, NE / Council Bluffs, IA 89.7 The River Top 89 of 2011 89
2011 54 90.5 WERG Erie, PA WERG Top 90 of 2011 90
2011 79 KJEE 92.9 Santa Barbara, CA KJEE Top 92 Songs of 2011 92
2011 13 WBRU Providence, RI WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2011 96

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2011 1868 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1929 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1999 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

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