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“Truly, Truly” by Grant Lee Buffalo

From the album Jubilee (1998)

“Truly, Truly” by Grant Lee Buffalo appears on 27 radio countdowns from 14 stations between 1998 and 2022. It was first released in 1998 on the album Jubilee. Its best result is #62 on the DC101 Top 101 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #92 alternative song of 1998 and #1,959 alternative song of all time.

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14stations
#62best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1998–2022years charted

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Grant Lee Buffalo sent "Truly, Truly" out in 1998 as the first single from Jubilee, their fourth album, and the song had been brewing for a while. Grant-Lee Phillips wrote it, and he and drummer Joey Peters started working on it in 1996 while the band was on tour with the Smashing Pumpkins. By the time they were demoing for Jubilee, bassist and producer Paul Kimble had drifted out of the picture, and he left the following year; Paul Fox produced instead.

Phillips built it from the bottom up, starting with a bass line clicked to a metronome and hanging the chords around it, and the guitar changes colour as it passes through different amps, a Marshall JCM900 and a Vox AC30 among them. The result is sturdy, big-hearted rock with a restless shimmer, and it climbed to 11 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.

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
1998 78 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1998 91
1998 101 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1998 106
1998 72 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 101
1998 82 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1998 100
1998 88 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998 102
1998 90 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 1998 107
1998 93 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998 100
1998 69 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 1998 103
1998 62 DC101 Washington, D.C. DC101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 101
1998 69 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 103 Songs of 1998 102

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 1885 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 1886 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1891 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1876 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2003 1845 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1846 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1837 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 872 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 860 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 816 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 764 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 794 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 807 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 838 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2016 834 WYEP WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 913
2021 569 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2022 431 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900

Also listed as: Truly Truly.

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