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“Loading Zones” by Kurt Vile
From the album Bottle It In (2018)
“Loading Zones” by Kurt Vile appears on 17 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 2018 and 2026. It was first released in 2018 on the album Bottle It In. Its best result is #2 on the WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #7 indie & aaa song of 2018, #770 indie & aaa song of all time and #100 of the '10s.
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"Loading Zones" was the first single from Kurt Vile's 2018 album Bottle It In on Matador, and it's a hometown love letter disguised as a brag. The title comes from Vile boasting about how good he is at parking where he shouldn't without ever getting a ticket, but the song is really a tribute to Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, the place he comes from, complete with a nod to the day the town handed him the key to the city.
He wrote it back during the sessions for B'lieve I'm Goin Down... and sat on it for more than two years before recording it, and he's cheerfully admitted its metaphors don't hold up to close scrutiny. Critics didn't mind: Rolling Stone swooned over its layers of guitar, and Pitchfork warmed to its sunny, relatable words and hazy psychedelic riffing.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 21 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2018 | 107 |
| 2018 | 14 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2018 | 50 |
| 2018 | 78 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2018 | 90 |
| 2018 | 43 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2018 | 89 |
| 2018 | 11 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2018 | 90 |
| 2018 | 122 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2018 | 200 |
| 2018 | 55 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2018 | 104 |
| 2018 | 2 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2018 | 89 |
| 2019 | 46 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2019 | 97 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 312 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 312 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2022 | 304 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 243 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
| 2024 | 287 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 423 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 273 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2026 | 351 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
Also listed as: Loading Zone.
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