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“Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman)” by Counting Crows

Released 1991

“Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman)” by Counting Crows appears on 25 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 1994 and 2021. It was first released in 1991. Its best result is #11 on the Radio & Records Top 94 Songs of 1994. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #35 alternative song of 1994, #706 alternative song of all time and #460 of the '90s.

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"Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)" is Counting Crows off the main road, a song that surfaced on Geffen's DGC Rarities Vol. 1 compilation rather than a proper album. Adam Duritz wrote the words and shared the music with David Bryson, and the title tips its hat to Philip Glass's opera Einstein on the Beach.

It's a loose, jangling strum with Duritz at his most wistful, and modern rock radio went for it harder than anything else they'd done: it became the band's first number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, topping the runner-up finish of "Mr. Jones". In Australia, Triple J listeners put it at 47 in the Hottest 100 for 1994, a spot ahead of "Mr. Jones". It later earned a place on the 2003 best-of Films About Ghosts.

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
1994 48 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1994 107
1994 43 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1994 91
1994 61 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994 101
1994 33 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1994 100
1994 47 Triple J Australia (national) Triple J Hottest 100 of 1994 100
1994 11 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 94 Songs of 1994 94

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1995 177 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 300 (July 1995) 300
1999 719 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 647 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 216 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 216 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 216 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 216 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 1782 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 216 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 216 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 214 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 490 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 495 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 489 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 504 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 519 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 536 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 549 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2021 562 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908

Also listed as: Einstein On The Beach; Einstein on the Beach; Einstein On The Beach (for An Eggman); Einstein on the Beach (for An Eggman).

Charting alongside it in 1994

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  1. 1Black Hole SunSoundgarden
  2. 2CloserNine Inch Nails
  3. 3Self-EsteemThe Offspring
  4. 4Interstate Love SongStone Temple Pilots
  5. 5Come Out and PlayThe Offspring
  6. 6Basket CaseGreen Day

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