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“Everybody Knows” by Concrete Blonde

Released 1990

“Everybody Knows” by Concrete Blonde appears on 19 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1990 and 2024. It was first released in 1990. Its best result is #63 on The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #198 alternative song of 1990 and #912 alternative song of all time.

19countdowns
5stations
#63best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1990–2024years charted

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Concrete Blonde cut "Everybody Knows" in 1990 with producer Dennis Herring, taking on a song Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson wrote and Cohen first released on I'm Your Man in 1988. It's a dark choice and a canny one: a grim, sardonic litany with the title hammered home at the start of line after line, taking in AIDS, social decay, love and faith, and critics have heard it as bitter to the bone yet darkly funny, even as a prophecy of the end of the world.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1990 79 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1990 107

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1994 442 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994) 500
1999 411 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 411 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 411 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 411 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2003 411 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 411 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 411 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 714 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 669 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 687 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 706 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 729 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 743 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 757 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2021 237 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2022 516 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900
2024 63 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs 850

Charting alongside it in 1990

Best songs of 1990 →
  1. 1Nothing Compares 2 USinéad O'Connor
  2. 2The Only One I KnowThe Charlatans
  3. 3Blue Sky MineMidnight Oil
  4. 4Enjoy the SilenceDepeche Mode
  5. 5Here's Where The Story EndsThe Sundays
  6. 6The Emperor's New ClothesSinéad O'Connor

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