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“My Heart Is A Flower” by King Missile
From the album The Way to Salvation (1991)
“My Heart Is A Flower” by King Missile appears on 9 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2005. It was first released in 1991 on the album The Way to Salvation. Its best result is #1307 on the Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,853 alternative song of all time.
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"My Heart Is a Flower" was the only single King Missile pulled from The Way to Salvation, their 1991 album for Atlantic, and it's a lovely bit of deadpan sabotage: pop rock with a psychedelic tint, John S. Hall chanting the title over and over, breaking off into a spoken monologue that stretches the heart-as-flower idea as far as it will go, then diving back into the chant as the band swells behind him.
It sounds like a joke, and Hall admitted it's a funny song, but he said he wrote it at a low point, feeling stomped into the dirt like a discarded bloom, and that writing something happier was how he pulled himself out. Phil Morrison directed the video, which parks the band in a big, colorful garden with multi-instrumentalist Chris Xefos playing in a bear suit.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1486 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1486 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1449 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1447 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2002 | 1307 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 1433 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2003 | 1530 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2004 | 1433 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1431 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
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