Song · Chapterhouse
“Mesmerise” by Chapterhouse
From the album Whirlpool (1991)
“Mesmerise” by Chapterhouse appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2002. It was first released in 1991 on the album Whirlpool. Its best result is #1833 on the Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,191 alternative song of all time.
Chapterhouse put out "Mesmerise" in 1991 as the English shoegazers' follow-up to "Pearl", and it spent two weeks on the charts, going in at 60 and stalling right there. Andrew Sherriff and Russell Barrett wrote it, Ralph Jezzard produced and engineered it, and it later found a home on The Best of Chapterhouse.
Robert Smith of the Cure fell hard for it. He named it as an influence on the band's 1992 album Wish, not for anything you could trace in the sound or structure but for its feeling of abandon, and in 1993 he remembered one night of drinking when he must have played it 20 times, cranking it louder each time until he'd put himself in a trance.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 1833 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
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