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“What I Am” by Edie Brickell And New Bohemians

From the album It's Like This (1986)

“What I Am” by Edie Brickell And New Bohemians appears on 34 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 1988 and 2023. It was first released in 1986 on the album It's Like This. Its best result is #9 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1988. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #19 alternative song of 1988, #762 alternative song of all time and #118 of the '80s.

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13stations
#9best position
0#1 finishes
1top 10 finishes
1988–2023years charted

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Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am (Official Music Video)

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Edie Brickell & New Bohemians put "What I Am" on their debut album, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, in 1988, a song Brickell wrote with Kenny Withrow, supplying the words herself. It's a breezy, loose-limbed shrug of a tune, Brickell's voice unhurried and wry, the band rolling easy beneath her until a guitar solo run through an envelope filter comes quacking out of the middle.

It reached 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, topped Canada's RPM 100 and went top 20 in Australia and New Zealand. VH1 later put it at 23 on its list of the greatest one-hit wonders of the '80s.

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
1988 28 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1988 107
1988 9 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1988 91
1988 34 WLIR / WDRE Long Island, NY WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1988 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1989 110 91X 91X Top 191 Songs of the 1980s (1989) 191
1989 327 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989) 495
1992 316 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992) 500
1994 113 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1994) 497
1995 246 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995) 500
1996 213 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996) 500
1996 305 Q101 Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) 500
1999 234 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 716 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
1999 948 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) 1002
2000 717 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 680 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2001 190 Virgin Radio Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 500
2001 149 WBRU WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001) 500
2002 680 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 294 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 680 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 268 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 680 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 680 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 935 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2007 1820 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1777 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1810 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1856 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1935 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2021 349 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s 909
2022 676 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900
2022 1090 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 603
2023 681 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s 850
2023 608 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time 909

Charting alongside it in 1988

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  6. 6Chains of LoveErasure

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