Cover of Make Up the Breakdown by Hot Hot Heat
Cover: Make Up the Breakdown

Song · Hot Hot Heat

“Bandages” by Hot Hot Heat

From the album Make Up the Breakdown (2002)

“Bandages” by Hot Hot Heat appears on 40 radio countdowns from 25 stations between 2003 and 2022. It was first released in 2002 on the album Make Up the Breakdown. Its best result is #3 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #24 alternative song of 2003, #3,537 alternative song of all time and #190 of the '00s.

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#3best position
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3top 10 finishes
2003–2022years charted

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"Bandages" was the first single from Hot Hot Heat, the Canadian indie rock band, pulled from their debut album Make Up the Breakdown and sent out in the UK and US on March 23, 2003. Steve Bays, Dante DeCaro, Paul Hawley and Dustin Hawthorne share the writing credit, and it sounds like four guys trying to cram a whole night out into a few minutes: jittery, herky-jerky new wave rhythms, a bass line that won't sit still and a vocal that yelps like it's had far too much coffee.

It climbed to 25 on the UK singles chart, and the video borrowed from the film Brazil, restaging the bit where the hero's mother goes under the knife to look younger. In 2008 it came back around as a download for the Rock Band games.

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
2003 14 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2003 107
2003 10 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2003 91
2003 3 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2003 106
2003 39 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2003 101
2003 36 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2003 100
2003 72 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2003 92
2003 88 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2003 100
2003 24 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2003 89
2003 11 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2003 101
2003 38 Y100 Philadelphia, PA Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2003 100
2003 19 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2003 99
2003 73 Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2003 105
2003 4 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2003 196
2003 49 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 50 Songs of 2003 50
2003 32 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2003 103
2003 93 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL Buzz 103.1 Top 103 Buzz Cuts of 2003 103
2003 40 102.1 The Edge Dallas-Fort Worth, TX KDGE Top 102 Songs of 2003 102
2003 27 WBCN Boston, MA WBCN Top 104 Songs of 2003 104
2003 56 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2003 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Charting alongside it in 2003

Best songs of 2003 →
  1. 1Seven Nation ArmyThe White Stripes
  2. 2Like a StoneAudioslave
  3. 3Bring Me to LifeEvanescence
  4. 4Somewhere I BelongLinkin Park
  5. 5Times Like TheseFoo Fighters
  6. 6Weak and PowerlessA Perfect Circle

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