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“Join Me in Death” by HIM
From the album Razorblade Romance (1999)
“Join Me in Death” by HIM appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2004. It was first released in 1999 on the album Razorblade Romance. Its best result is #65 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #407 alternative song of 2004.
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HIM's "Join Me in Death" came out as a single in 1999, taken from the Finnish gothic rock band's second album, Razorblade Romance, and it also made the rounds under the shorter title "Join Me". Ville Valo wrote it alone, the band worked up the arrangement, and John Fryer produced. It went on to become the fifteenth-best-selling single ever in Finland.
The song had been around a while before the record. HIM first played it at Ilosaarirock in Finland on 11 July 1998, with an extra verse that never made the studio versions. Valo has pushed back on readings of it as a song about suicide: by his account he was out to rip off Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" and turn Romeo and Juliet into a rock song, and the real subject is giving everything up for love.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 65 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2004 | 91 |
| 2004 | 74 | Y100 Philadelphia, PA | Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2004 | 99 |
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