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“Rev It Up” by Jerry Harrison
“Rev It Up” by Jerry Harrison appears on 9 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1988 and 2010. Its best result is #40 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1988. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #142 alternative song of 1988 and #1,834 alternative song of all time.
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Jerry Harrison kicked off Casual Gods, his second album, with "Rev It Up", and it went out as the lead single in America in January 1988, played by Harrison with his band, also called Casual Gods. He wrote it with John Sieger and Ernie Brooks, and the hook is a fat, strutting guitar riff he worked up with Alex Weir of the Brothers Johnson, which explains the funk in its hips.
The oddest detail is the address: the track, like most of the album, was cut in a bomb shelter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It climbed to number seven on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart and went top ten in Australia and New Zealand, hitting three and six. Harrison directed the video himself in New York, and it stars babies on Big Wheels in a biker bar.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 40 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1988 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 568 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 568 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 568 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 568 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 568 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 568 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 568 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2010 | 330 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) | 885 |
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