Song · Curve
“Chinese Burn” by Curve
From the album Come Clean (1998)
“Chinese Burn” by Curve appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1998. It was first released in 1998 on the album Come Clean. Its best result is #95 on the WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #435 alternative song of 1998.
"Chinese Burn" arrived at the end of 1997 as the first single from Come Clean, the third album by Curve, and it's alternative rock with a mean streak and a glossy finish, all bite and shimmer at once. Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia wrote it, Steve Osborne produced and mixed it, and Ben Hillier engineered, adding extra mixes with Darren Nash.
Garcia has said the earliest takes were cut with Osborne at Moles in Bath, right before work on Come Clean got going, then reworked for the album by a crew that included Flood and Tim Simenon; those raw mixes finally surfaced on Bandcamp in 2020. The song has led a busy life on screen since, turning up in a 1999 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the first theatrical trailer for X-Men and a fight scene in Stormbreaker.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 95 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998 | 102 |
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