Song · Korn
“Oildale (Leave Me Alone)” by Korn
From the album Korn III: Remember Who You Are (2010)
“Oildale (Leave Me Alone)” by Korn appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations in 2010. It was first released in 2010 on the album Korn III: Remember Who You Are. Its best result is #76 on the Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #495 alternative song of 2010.
"Oildale (Leave Me Alone)" fired the first shot from Korn III: Remember Who You Are, the band's ninth studio album, which Ross Robinson produced for Roadrunner in 2010. It was also Korn's first single with Ray Luzier as their new drummer. They broke it in live on March 26, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska, and radio jumped on it: 1.9 million audience impressions across 79 stations in the first week alone.
Roadrunner's own pitch had it opening on an eerie clean guitar before a steamroller of bass and riffs flattens everything. The video, which aired on MTV2, follows a boy in the hard-up town of Oildale, California, scraping together money and riding his bike through the streets, cut with the band playing out in an oilfield, then in a back alley before the ruins of a burned-out house. In July they played it on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 76 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2010 | 101 |
| 2010 | 80 | 94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX | 94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2010 | 94 |
| 2010 | 92 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2010 | 99 |
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