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Inspiral Carpets

Band Oldham United Kingdom Formed 1989

Inspiral Carpets formed in 1989 in Oldham, United Kingdom. Inspiral Carpets has 45 chart appearances on 28 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Two Worlds Collide”, which appears on 17 lists with a best position of #5. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Inspiral Carpets most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 14 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1992.

45appearances

28countdowns

14songs charted

10stations

1#1 finishes

1988–2022years

Inspiral Carpets were Oldham's entry in the Madchester sweepstakes, and you could pick them out of the baggy crowd in a heartbeat: a wheezing, swirling organ and a wall of distorted guitar that owed as much to old-school psychedelic rock as to any dancefloor. Clint Boon worked the keyboards, Graham Lambert played guitar, Martyn Walsh held down the bass, Craig Gill drummed and Tom Hingley sang, and that lineup is the one that counted.

Lambert had been knocking the idea around under the name The Furs before he met singer Stephen Holt at an indie disco in Oldham. Holt sang on the first 2 independent singles, then left before the band signed to Mute Records. With Hingley at the mic they rolled out Life, The Beast Inside, Revenge of the Goldfish and Devil Hopping, and the countdowns still hold a place for "This Is How It Feels" and "Two Worlds Collide".

The story got messier later. Hingley left in 2011, with the members still not agreeing on exactly how it happened, and Holt came back into the fold. Gill's death in 2016 left the band silent, until they announced in 2022 that they were re-forming for a tour of the UK the following spring.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Inspiral Carpets on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Two Worlds Collide	957	17	#5	–	1992
2	This Is How It Feels	686	12	#35	–	1990
3	Commercial Rain	204	3	#51	–	1990
4	Dragging Me Down	117	2	#21	–	1992
5	I Want You	100	1	#1	1	1994
6	Joe	84	1	#9	–	1989
7	Keep The Circle Around	80	1	#11	–	1988
8	Find Out Why	60	1	#21	–	1989
9	Generations	49	1	#53	–	1992
10	Draggin' Me Down	43	1	#568	–	–
11	Saturn 5	11	2	#10	–	1994
12	Directing Traffic	4	1	#49	–	1989
13	Beast Inside	2	1	#50	–	1990
14	She Comes In The Fall	2	1	#50	–	1989

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Year-end chart timeline

Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.

88 89 90 92 94

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2022	519	This Is How It Feels	The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s
2005	625	This Is How It Feels	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005	922	Two Worlds Collide	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005	377	Two Worlds Collide	99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)
2004	626	This Is How It Feels	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004	922	Two Worlds Collide	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	626	This Is How It Feels	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003	922	Two Worlds Collide	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003	553	Two Worlds Collide	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2003	100	Saturn 5	Virgin Radio VR10x10 (April 2003)
2002	626	This Is How It Feels	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002	937	Two Worlds Collide	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002	731	Two Worlds Collide	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2001	626	This Is How It Feels	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001	937	Two Worlds Collide	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	626	This Is How It Feels	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000	950	Two Worlds Collide	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	808	Two Worlds Collide	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	626	This Is How It Feels	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	899	Two Worlds Collide	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	272	Commercial Rain	CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999)
1999	470	Two Worlds Collide	CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999)
1999	568	Draggin' Me Down	CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999)
1994	1	I Want You	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1994
1994	10	Saturn 5	Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 1994
1994	471	Two Worlds Collide	Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994)
1992	38	Two Worlds Collide	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1992
1992	25	Two Worlds Collide	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1992
1992	68	Dragging Me Down	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1992
1992	38	Two Worlds Collide	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1992
1992	5	Two Worlds Collide	CFNY Top 102 Songs of 1992
1992	21	Dragging Me Down	CFNY Top 102 Songs of 1992
1992	53	Generations	CFNY Top 102 Songs of 1992
1991	132	Commercial Rain	CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition)
1991	624	This Is How It Feels	CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition)
1990	51	This Is How It Feels	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1990
1990	66	This Is How It Feels	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1990
1990	51	Commercial Rain	CFNY Top 90 Songs of 1990
1990	50	Beast Inside	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1990
1989	9	Joe	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1989
1989	21	Find Out Why	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1989
1989	35	This Is How It Feels	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1989
1989	49	Directing Traffic	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1989
1989	50	She Comes In The Fall	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1989
1988	11	Keep The Circle Around	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1988

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