Song · Elvis Costello
“The Other Side of Summer” by Elvis Costello
From the album Mighty Like a Rose (1991)
“The Other Side of Summer” by Elvis Costello appears on 7 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1991 and 2022. It was first released in 1991 on the album Mighty Like a Rose. Its best result is #25 on the Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 1991. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #124 alternative song of 1991 and #4,700 alternative song of all time.
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"The Other Side of Summer" was a single from Elvis Costello's 1991 album Mighty Like a Rose, a sunny Beach Boys pastiche cooked up in the spirit of the Beatles' "Back in the U.S.S.R.". Costello wrote it alone and produced it with Mitchell Froom and Kevin Killen at Ocean Way.
They went all in on a Wall of Sound: two basses, two guitars, a double-tracked rhythm track with more percussion piled on, and a thicket of keyboards. By Costello's count there were 14 of them, all playing the same part, a joke he figured nobody would bother checking. Britain shrugged, but it went to number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks in America.
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 | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 65 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1991 | 107 |
| 1991 | 90 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1991 | 91 |
| 1991 | 102 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1991 | 105 |
| 1991 | 25 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 1991 | 30 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 1970 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 626 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2022 | 459 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
Also listed as: The other side of summer; The Other Side Of Summer.
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