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“Crush” by Dave Matthews Band

From the album Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

“Crush” by Dave Matthews Band appears on 40 radio countdowns from 18 stations between 1998 and 2022. It was first released in 1998 on the album Before These Crowded Streets. Its best result is #19 on the Radio & Records Top 104 Songs of 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #43 alternative song of 1999, #2,298 alternative song of all time and #139 of the '90s.

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"Crush", from Dave Matthews Band's 1998 album Before These Crowded Streets, very nearly got left off the record. The band couldn't get a grip on it in the studio until Stefan Lessard dreamed up the bass line that opens it, and after that everything fell in behind him. Dave Matthews wrote it out of plain awe at women, and it plays like a slow, lovesick seduction: jazzy, unhurried and stretching past eight minutes on the album, with guest Butch Taylor on organ and piano and Steve Lillywhite producing and mixing.

For radio and for Dean Karr's black-and-white video it was cut nearly in half, and as the album's third single it gave the band their first Billboard Hot 100 hit, along with a number three on the Triple-A chart.

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
1998 20 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1998 91
1998 87 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 101
1998 85 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1998 100
1998 93 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998 102
1998 19 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998 100
1998 46 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 1998 103
1998 97 DC101 Washington, D.C. DC101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 101
1999 36 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1999 107
1999 67 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999 106
1999 48 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1999 101
1999 28 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999 100
1999 43 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999 99
1999 26 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 1999 89
1999 37 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 1999 103
1999 19 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 104 Songs of 1999 104

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 249 KROQ KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) 300
1999 61 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 77 91X 91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999) 500
1999 123 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 479 WFNX WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999) 500
1999 1887 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 72 Y100 Y100 Top 300 Songs of the '90s (September 2000) 100
2000 1889 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1890 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2001 73 WBRU WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001) 500
2002 1875 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 97 The Buzz The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial) 144
2003 1844 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1845 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2004 392 WXPN WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) 885
2005 1835 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 536 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2007 346 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2009 175 WYEP WYEP 913 Essential Songs 913
2012 195 WYEP WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown 500
2012 459 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) 885
2014 567 WXPN WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014) 885
2020 1772 WXPN WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time 2020
2020 416 DC101 The DC101 Top 500 500
2022 101 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900

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