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“Rattlesnake” by Live
From the album Secret Samadhi (1997)
“Rattlesnake” by Live appears on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1997 and 1999. It was first released in 1997 on the album Secret Samadhi. Its best result is #69 on the WRCX Top 103 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #273 alternative song of 1997 and #4,849 alternative song of all time.
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"Rattlesnake" went out as a promo single from Secret Samadhi, Live's fourth album, released on Radioactive in 1997, and it finds the band leaning hard into the heavy end of alternative rock. Ed Kowalczyk wrote the words and sang them; the music is credited to Live as a whole, with Kowalczyk and Chad Taylor on electric guitars, Patrick Dahlheimer on bass and Chad Gracey on drums, Taylor adding backing vocals and Jon Carin sitting in on keyboards.
The band produced it alongside Jay Healy, Gerardo Lopez and Greg Thompson, and Tom Lord-Alge gave it the final mix. In the States it climbed to 18 on the Modern Rock chart and 15 on Mainstream Rock, and up in Canada it got to 13 on the RPM Alternative chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 85 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1997 | 100 |
| 1997 | 78 | 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO | 105.7 The Point Top 105.7 of 1997 | 106 |
| 1997 | 69 | WRCX Rock 103.5 Chicago, IL | WRCX Top 103 Songs of 1997 | 103 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 366 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
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