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“She's A Girl And I'm A Man” by Lloyd Cole

“She's A Girl And I'm A Man” by Lloyd Cole appears on 17 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1991 and 2014. Its best result is #83 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1991. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #266 alternative song of 1991 and #1,432 alternative song of all time.

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#83best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1991–2014years charted

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Lloyd Cole knocked "She's a Girl and I'm a Man" out in the studio as a B-side idea, and it wound up leading the way for Don't Get Weird on Me Babe, his second studio album, released as its first single on August 19, 1991. The spark was a T. Rex song they'd been playing earlier that day, and the thing struts accordingly. Cole wrote it with Robert Quine and produced it with Fred Maher and Paul Hardiman.

It turned out to be far more than a flip side. When Cole brought the album to Polydor, label head David Munns latched on to the song, heard a hit in it, and re-signed Cole on its strength. In America it climbed to 7 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, though at home in Britain it stalled at 55.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1991 83 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1991 91

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 949 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 1000 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1005 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1005 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 530 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 990 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 1367 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 990 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 990 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1403 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1365 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1380 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1412 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1474 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1535 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1592 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

Also listed as: She's a Girl and I'm a Man.

Charting alongside it in 1991

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  3. 3UnbelievableEMF
  4. 4Kiss Them for MeSiouxsie and the Banshees
  5. 5RushBig Audio Dynamite
  6. 6Give It AwayRed Hot Chili Peppers

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