Song · Gotye
“Hearts A Mess” by Gotye
From the album Like Drawing Blood (2006)
“Hearts A Mess” by Gotye appears on 4 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2006 and 2025. It was first released in 2006 on the album Like Drawing Blood. Its best result is #8 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2006. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #183 alternative song of 2006 and #6,336 alternative song of all time.
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"Hearts a Mess" comes from Like Drawing Blood, the second album by the Belgian-Australian musician Gotye, from 2006, and it went out as a single the following year. Gotye produced it himself and built it in layers: a slow, trip-hop crawl, Richard Adlam's percussion, keyboards from Hal Ritson, Guthrie Govan's guitar, violins from Cerys Jones and Laurine Rochut, and a ghostly scrap of Harry Belafonte's "Day-O (Banana Boat Song)" stitched into the fabric, which is why William Attaway and Lord Burgess share the writing credit. François Tétaz mixed it.
Brendan Cook's video earned a Best Video nomination at the 2007 ARIA Awards, and the song kept finding new rooms to haunt, from an episode of Gossip Girl to the soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 8 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2006 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 77 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (2009) | 100 |
| 2013 | 12 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years (2013) | 100 |
| 2025 | 86 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs (2025) | 100 |
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