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“Someday?” by Concrete Blonde
From the album Walking in London (1992)
“Someday?” by Concrete Blonde appears on 12 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1992 and 2005. It was first released in 1992 on the album Walking in London. Its best result is #53 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1992. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #87 alternative song of 1992 and #2,517 alternative song of all time.
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"Someday?" came out in 1992 as the second single from Walking in London, Concrete Blonde's fourth studio album. Johnette Napolitano wrote it, and the band produced it with Chris Tsangarides. It carries the same sweet ache as "Joey", the 1990 hit, which was exactly the problem as Napolitano saw it: she told Billboard that everyone was waiting for another one like that, so the band hid this one deep on side two and opened the album with rougher stuff to show fans a different face first.
It's a rueful, chiming pop song with a lovely lope to it, and the Orlando Sentinel's reviewer heard the Pretenders in its bones, with traces of the Stones' "Beast of Burden" and of "Joey" itself in the tune. Jane Simpson directed the video, and MTV put it into active rotation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 53 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1992 | 107 |
| 1992 | 53 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1992 | 101 |
| 1992 | 86 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1992 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1339 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1339 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1339 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1338 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2002 | 1107 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 1323 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2003 | 1220 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2004 | 1323 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1323 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
Also listed as: Someday.
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