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“Natural One” by Folk Implosion

Released 1995

“Natural One” by Folk Implosion appears on 58 radio countdowns from 24 stations between 1995 and 2026. It was first released in 1995. Its best result is #15 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1995. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #45 alternative song of 1995, #372 alternative song of all time and #202 of the '90s.

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24stations
#15best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1995–2026years charted

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The Folk Implosion - Natural One (Official Video)

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Lou Barlow and John Davis of the Folk Implosion wrote "Natural One" with producer Wally Gagel, and it went out as a single in 1995 from the soundtrack to Larry Clark's film Kids, even though, oddly, the song never turns up in the movie. There's an a cappella version of it floating around as well.

Not bad for a song the film itself left out: it climbed to number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, number four on Modern Rock Tracks and number 20 on Mainstream Rock Tracks, and reached 45 in the UK.

It also spent years in limbo. Record label tangles kept the band's signature song off streaming services until 2023, when the Folk Implosion put out Music for Kids, gathering their contributions to the Kids soundtrack alongside other tracks from the same stretch, precisely to get around those issues.

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
1995 15 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1995 107
1995 57 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1995 101
1995 32 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1995 100
1995 16 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 1995 50
1995 101 Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 1995 104
1995 53 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL The Buzz Top 103 Alternative Songs of '95 103
1995 69 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 95 Songs of 1995 95
1995 43 WDRE Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA WDRE Top 103.9 Songs of 1995 104
1996 53 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1996 107
1996 33 WBCN Boston, MA WBCN Top 104 Songs of 1996 104
1996 36 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 1996 100
1996 57 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 96 Songs of 1996 96

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 186 KROQ KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) 300
1999 337 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 589 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 246 WLIR / WDRE WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 300
1999 121 WFNX WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999) 500
1999 1042 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 322 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999) 500
1999 109 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 207 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) 500
2000 110 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 210 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) 498
2001 110 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2001 229 WBRU WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001) 500
2002 189 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2002) 500
2002 110 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 620 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 118 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2003) 500
2003 110 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 275 107.7 The End The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) 500
2004 110 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 87 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005) 500
2005 109 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 503 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2006 221 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006) 500
2006 456 Live 105 Live 105 500 Co-Op Countdown (Memorial Day 2006) 500
2006 88 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006) 499
2007 310 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2007 1164 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1084 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 399 Live 105 Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009) 500
2009 1017 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1054 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1090 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1115 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1165 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2020 231 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2020) 420
2020 364 DC101 The DC101 Top 500 500
2021 141 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2021 290 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2021) 420
2022 611 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900
2022 376 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2022) 420
2022 1207 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 603
2022 1004 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time 1055
2023 457 The Current The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s 893
2023 403 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2023) 420
2026 815 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound 1055

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