Song · Kristin Hersh
“Your Ghost” by Kristin Hersh with Michael Stipe
From the album Hips and Makers (1994) With Michael Stipe
“Your Ghost” by Kristin Hersh with Michael Stipe appears on 5 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1994 and 2021. It was first released in 1994 on the album Hips and Makers. Its best result is #41 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1994. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #156 alternative song of 1994 and #5,783 alternative song of all time.
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"Your Ghost" opens Hips and Makers, Kristin Hersh's first solo album, released on 4AD in 1994, and it's a song about grief and getting past it: the loss of a close friend, and the work of carrying on afterwards. Hersh wrote it herself, and Michael Stipe of R.E.M. drops in as a guest on backing vocals, a second voice hovering just behind hers.
It went out as a single in January 1994 and found friends in some unlikely places, going all the way to number one in Iceland and into the top 30 in Belgium and the Netherlands. Katherine Dieckmann directed the video as a tribute to Maya Deren's 1943 experimental film Meshes of the Afternoon.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 41 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1994 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 1246 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2019 | 843 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 843 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2021 | 764 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
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