Song · Jeff Buckley
“Forget Her” by Jeff Buckley
Released 1994
“Forget Her” by Jeff Buckley appears on 13 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2004 and 2020. It was first released in 1994. Its best result is #30 on the CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #157 alternative song of 2004 and #2,845 alternative song of all time.
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"Forget Her" was cut during the sessions for Grace, the only studio album Jeff Buckley ever finished, and then left on the shelf: Buckley pulled it from the record and put "So Real" in its place, a call that stirred up plenty of argument. It finally surfaced in 2004 as the lead-off track on the bonus disc of Grace: Legacy Edition, and later turned up as a bonus track on several European pressings of the album.
Buckley wrote it alone and sings and plays guitar, with Mick Grondahl on bass and Matt Johnson on drums, and Andy Wallace produced, engineered and mixed; it smolders like a lost chapter of the record it was cut from. A video pieced together from unseen footage came with the reissue's bonus DVD, and in Australia it placed at 36 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004.
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 | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 30 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2004 | 101 |
| 2004 | 36 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2004 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 1995 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1981 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2007 | 990 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1276 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 440 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2009 | 1289 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1330 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1384 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1397 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1350 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
| 2020 | 1670 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
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