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“White, Discussion” by Live
From the album Throwing Copper (1994)
“White, Discussion” by Live appears on 16 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 1995 and 2005. It was first released in 1994 on the album Throwing Copper. Its best result is #38 on the Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1995. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #85 alternative song of 1995 and #2,655 alternative song of all time.
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"White, Discussion" was the fifth and last single pulled from Live's 1994 album Throwing Copper, and it's the record at its most furious. Ed Kowalczyk wrote the words, a seething picture of a dying planet at the end of days that one critic heard as a rant against do-nothing, politically correct activism, and he shares the music credit with Chad Taylor, Patrick Dahlheimer and Chad Gracey. Kowalczyk has said the preacher's voice sampled in it came off a shortwave radio station in Colorado.
Jerry Harrison produced it with the band and Tom Lord-Alge mixed, letting it smolder and then boil over. Billboard heard an apocalyptic story with a deadly parting shot, and the single reached 15 on Modern Rock Tracks and 12 on Mainstream Rock Tracks.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 38 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1995 | 101 |
| 1995 | 58 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1995 | 100 |
| 1995 | 64 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 95 Songs of 1995 | 95 |
| 1995 | 63 | WDRE Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA | WDRE Top 103.9 Songs of 1995 | 104 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 885 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 405 | WHFS | WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 837 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 598 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 1999 | 1466 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1466 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1469 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1467 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2002 | 1224 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 1451 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1451 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1449 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
Also listed as: White Discussion.
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