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“The Great Commandment” by Camouflage
“The Great Commandment” by Camouflage appears on 15 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1987 and 2022. Its best result is #10 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1988. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #39 alternative song of 1988, #2,390 alternative song of all time and #125 of the '80s.
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Camouflage, a synth-pop trio from Germany, first put "The Great Commandment" on tape in 1983, then went back and recorded it again in 1987 for their debut single on Metronome. It later landed on Voices & Images, their 1988 debut album.
It's all cold sheen and insistent pulse, and it gave the trio the only number-one dance hit they ever had, holding the top spot for three separate weeks. Independent stations took to it, and it jumped onto the mainstream American pop chart as well, climbing to 59 in February 1989. Back home in Germany it reached 14, and it cracked the top ten across more than twenty countries.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 50 | WLIR / WDRE Long Island, NY | WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1987 | 99 |
| 1988 | 22 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1988 | 107 |
| 1988 | 10 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1988 | 91 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 106 | WLIR / WDRE | WLIR Top 200 Songs of the 1980s | 200 |
| 1988 | 49 | Live 105 | Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988) | 501 |
| 1988 | 83 | WLIR / WDRE | WLIR Top 200 Songs of All-Time (1988) | 200 |
| 1991 | 192 | Live 105 | Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1991) | 302 |
| 1992 | 246 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992) | 500 |
| 1992 | 269 | Live 105 | Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1992) | 299 |
| 1994 | 471 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1994) | 497 |
| 1995 | 190 | Live 105 | Live 105 Revolutionary 300 (July 1995) | 300 |
| 1999 | 261 | WLIR / WDRE | WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 300 |
| 2002 | 1850 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 1533 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2022 | 427 | X96 | X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time | 500 |
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