Song · Elbow
“The Bones Of You” by Elbow
From the album The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)
“The Bones Of You” by Elbow appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2009 and 2025. It was first released in 2008 on the album The Seldom Seen Kid. Its best result is #303 on the 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,137 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"The Bones of You" sits on The Seldom Seen Kid, Elbow's fourth album, released by Fiction in the UK on 17 March 2008 and by Geffen in the US that April. It was the first record the English band made entirely in-house, recording, producing and mixing it themselves at Blueprint Studios in Manchester, and on this track Craig Potter handles both the production and the mix.
The music is credited to Guy Garvey, Richard Jupp, Craig Potter, Mark Potter and Pete Turner, with Garvey on words, and the credits also make room for George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. The album took its title from a character in Damon Runyon's stories of Broadway gangsters, and it went on to win the 2008 Mercury Prize.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 450 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2022 | 1139 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2025 | 303 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
Also listed as: The Bones of You.
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