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“Beating Heart Baby” by Head Automatica
From the album Decadence (2004)
“Beating Heart Baby” by Head Automatica appears on 6 radio countdowns from 6 stations in 2005. It was first released in 2004 on the album Decadence. Its best result is #1 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 40 Songs of 2005. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #104 alternative song of 2005.
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"Beating Heart Baby" was the first single from Decadence, the 2004 debut album by Head Automatica, and it arrived in January 2005. The band was Daryl Palumbo's new start after Glassjaw: he toured with that group until early 2003, then began writing for something fresh and teamed up with drummer Larry Gorman and producer Dan "the Automator" Nakamura.
The album was cut at The Glue Factory in San Francisco that autumn, and it trades in dance-rock, garage rock and electronic flash, with nods to Joe Jackson, Nick Lowe and Primal Scream. On this track Howard Benson handled the mix and Mike Plotnikoff engineered. Bad luck dogged the push behind it: Palumbo's Crohn's disease wiped out the band's touring from late 2004 into mid-2005.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 69 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2005 | 89 |
| 2005 | 96 | Y100 Philadelphia, PA | Y100 Top 150 Songs of 2005 | 150 |
| 2005 | 96 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2005 | 103 |
| 2005 | 5 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2005 | 230 |
| 2005 | 1 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 40 Songs of 2005 | 40 |
| 2005 | 204 | ModernRock.com Online | ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005 | 400 |
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