Song · Lucy Dacus
“Brando” by Lucy Dacus
From the album Home Video (2021)
“Brando” by Lucy Dacus appears on 11 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 2021 and 2026. It was first released in 2021 on the album Home Video. Its best result is #8 on the 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Most Played Songs of 2021. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #25 indie & aaa song of 2021, #3,492 indie & aaa song of all time and #143 of the '20s.
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"Brando" is one of the singles that carried Lucy Dacus's third album, Home Video, released by Matador in the summer of 2021. She wrote it alone, sings it and plays electric guitar, and the rest of the playing is split between two people: Jacob Blizard on bass, synthesizer, electronic drums and acoustic and electric guitars, and Jake Finch on drums, electronic drums, synth, bass synth and acoustic guitar.
It belongs to a record whose videos lean on real home-video footage, because Dacus wanted to picture the first time you look back on being a kid, which may also be when being a kid is over. "Brando" shares that singles run with "Thumbs", "Hot & Heavy", "VBS" and "Going Going Gone".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 10 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2021 | 90 |
| 2021 | 42 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2021 | 89 |
| 2021 | 59 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2021 | 100 |
| 2021 | 42 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2021 | 90 |
| 2021 | 8 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Most Played Songs of 2021 | 90 |
| 2021 | 147 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2021 | 200 |
| 2021 | 56 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2021 | 88 |
| 2021 | 70 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2021 | 89 |
| 2021 | 29 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2021 | 104 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 241 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2026 | 144 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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