Song · Jack River
“Fool's Gold” by Jack River
From the album Sugar Mountain (2018)
“Fool's Gold” by Jack River appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2017. It was first released in 2018 on the album Sugar Mountain. Its best result is #64 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #264 alternative song of 2017.
"Fool's Gold" led the charge for Sugar Mountain, the 2018 debut album from Australian singer-songwriter Jack River. The verses took shape during a solitary stretch in New York, with River chasing shiny things and fed up with falling for the same ones again and again, even when they never gave anything back.
The twist is that the song refuses to scold. River has said the aim was to capture how human that pull is, the stubborn urge to see gold where there's none, and to accept that the feeling will keep coming around. That empathy is the real hook, and Australia took it to heart: the song was certified platinum there in 2020.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 64 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2017 | 100 |
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