Artist · chart history
Clutch
Band Maryland United States Formed 1990 US rock band
Clutch formed in 1990 in Maryland, United States. Clutch has 7 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 1998–2013. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The Mob Goes Wild”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #31. The station that charted Clutch most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.
Clutch come out of Germantown, Maryland, and they have spent their whole career making hard rock that sounds like it was dragged up from a swamp and taught to preach. Tim Sult plays lead guitar, Dan Maines bass, Jean-Paul Gaster drums, and Neil Fallon sings, plays rhythm guitar and keys, hollering over grooves thick enough to stand a spoon in. Roger Smalls was their very first singer, before Fallon took the mic.
They count among the pioneers of stoner rock, but they've never been content to sit in the haze: blues rock gives the riffs their swing and Gaster's drumming gives them a strut. Earache, Atlantic and Columbia have all had them on the books, and since 2008 they've run their own imprint, Weathermaker Music.
The 2001 EP Careful With That EP... gave rock radio "Careful With That Mic", and by Robot Hive / Exodus in 2005 they had Mick Schauer on keyboards and a song called "10001110101" to confuse the DJs. Thirteen studio albums in, plus a pile of rarities and live records, they're still grinding.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Clutch on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Mob Goes Wild | 1 | #31 | – | 2004 | |
| 2 | Careful With That Mic | 2 | #47 | – | 2001 | |
| 3 | Regulators | 1 | #110 | – | – | |
| 4 | 10001110101 | 2 | #87 | – | 2005 | |
| 5 | The Soapmakers | 1 | #84 | – | 1998 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 110 | Regulators | KBPI Top 200 Songs of All Time |
| 2005 | 87 | 10001110101 | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2005 |
| 2005 | 369 | 10001110101 | ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005 |
| 2004 | 31 | The Mob Goes Wild | WBER Listener Countdown 2004 |
| 2001 | 47 | Careful With That Mic | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2001 |
| 2001 | 144 (tie) | Careful With That Mic | WBER Listener Countdown 2001 |
| 1998 | 84 | The Soapmakers | WBER Listener Countdown 1998 |
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