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“Caroline” by Concrete Blonde

From the album Bloodletting (1990)

“Caroline” by Concrete Blonde appears on 18 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1999 and 2022. It was first released in 1990 on the album Bloodletting. Its best result is #291 on The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #859 alternative song of all time.

18countdowns

4stations

#291best position

0#1 finishes

0top 10 finishes

1999–2022years charted

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"Caroline" came from Bloodletting, Concrete Blonde's third album, and was pulled as its third single in 1990. Johnette Napolitano wrote it alone, and the band produced it with Chris Tsangarides, keeping the lineup tight: Napolitano singing and on bass, James Mankey on guitar and bass, Paul Thompson on drums.

It's the album's dusky heart, a slow, spooked reverie where Mankey's guitar shimmers and hangs in the air and Napolitano's voice goes rich and smoky around a song that, as AllMusic's Ned Raggett read it, speaks to a friend who's gone. The Los Angeles Times heard a kinship with Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon". It climbed to 23 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, and its video, directed by Rupert Nadeau, earned medium rotation on MTV.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

#859 of all time

Indie & Adult Alternative

#528 of the '90s

All Rock Formats

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1999	732	CD101	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	2000
2000	783	CD101	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)	2001
2001	786	CD101	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)	2002
2002	786	CD101	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)	2003
2002	946	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)	2002
2003	786	CD101	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)	2004
2003	423	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)	2044
2004	786	CD101	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)	2005
2005	787	CD101	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)	1994
2007	559	CD101	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)	2008
2008	531	CD101	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)	2009
2009	525	CD101	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)	2010
2010	539	CD101	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)	2011
2011	553	CD101	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)	2011
2013	570	CD101	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)	2012
2014	564	CD101	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)	2013
2021	621	90.9 The Bridge	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s	908
2022	291	The Colorado Sound	The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s	900

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