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“Heroin Girl” by Everclear

From the album Sparkle and Fade (1995)

“Heroin Girl” by Everclear appears on 16 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 1995 and 2023. It was first released in 1995 on the album Sparkle and Fade. Its best result is #6 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1995. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #104 alternative song of 1995 and #3,036 alternative song of all time.

16countdowns

9stations

#6best position

0#1 finishes

1top 10 finishes

1995–2023years charted

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"Heroin Girl" tears through Sparkle and Fade, Everclear's 1995 album, and there's real grief under the crunch. It's generally taken to be about the heroin overdoses of Art Alexakis's girlfriend and his brother, and one of its most chilling moments comes straight from a policeman's offhand remark after his brother died. Alexakis wrote it with Scott Cuthbert and Craig Montoya and produced it himself, with Michael W. Douglass and Brian Malouf co-producing; Douglass recorded it and Malouf mixed it. The band plays it hard and buzzing, with no time to stop and mourn, which only makes the story land heavier.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

#1,553 of the '90s

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1995	40	WBER Rochester, NY	WBER Listener Countdown 1995	50
1995	6	Triple J Australia (national)	Triple J Hottest 100 of 1995	100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1999	455	WHFS	WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999)	500
1999	984	Q101	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	1017
1999	204	107.7 The End	The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	1077
1999	1838	CD101	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	2000
2000	1833	CD101	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)	2001
2001	1836	CD101	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)	2002
2002	1822	CD101	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)	2003
2002	1567	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)	2002
2003	1800	CD101	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)	2004
2004	263	107.7 The End	The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004)	500
2004	1800	CD101	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)	2005
2005	1797	CD101	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)	1994
2007	483	KROQ	KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007)	500
2023	760	The Current	The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s	893

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