Artist · chart history

Mclusky

Band Cardiff United Kingdom Active 1996–2005

Mclusky formed in 1996 in Cardiff, United Kingdom and was active until 2005. Mclusky has 16 chart appearances on 15 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “She Will Only Bring You Happiness”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #47. The station that charted Mclusky most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.

16appearances

15countdowns

5songs charted

5stations

0#1 finishes

2002–2024years

Mclusky started life in Cardiff in 1996 as a band called Best, with Andrew Falkous, a transplant from Newcastle upon Tyne, on vocals and guitar, Geraint Bevan on bass and Matthew Harding on drums. Jon Chapple took over on bass in 1997, and the band's post-hardcore racket got meaner, funnier and louder: fuzzed-out bass, lurching riffs and Falkous howling caustic, surreal one-liners.

mclusky Do Dallas, in 2002, is one riot after another, with "To Hell With Good Intentions", "Alan Is A Cowboy Killer" and "Day of the Deadringers". Jack Egglestone replaced Harding on drums late in 2003, and The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire, in 2004, had "She Will Only Bring You Happiness" and "That Man Will Not Hang", a little more tuneful but no less feral.

They made three albums in all before splitting in 2005, and when they came back in 2014 it was without Chapple, first as mclusky*, then dropping the asterisk.

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

Songs by Mclusky on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	She Will Only Bring You Happiness	648	8	#47	–	2004
2	That Man Will Not Hang	85	2	#26	–	2004
3	To Hell With Good Intentions	68	4	#40	–	2002
4	Alan Is A Cowboy Killer	32	1	#35	–	2002
5	Day of the Deadringers	24	1	#559	–	–

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Year-end chart timeline

Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.

02 04

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2024	559	Day of the Deadringers	The Best Opening Tracks of All Time
2019	603	To Hell With Good Intentions	KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time
2014	338	She Will Only Bring You Happiness	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013	334	She Will Only Bring You Happiness	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2013	66	That Man Will Not Hang	BBC 6 Music 100 Best Tracks Of The Last 10 Years
2011	328	She Will Only Bring You Happiness	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010	321	She Will Only Bring You Happiness	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009	307	She Will Only Bring You Happiness	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008	301	She Will Only Bring You Happiness	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007	224	She Will Only Bring You Happiness	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2006	385	To Hell With Good Intentions	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006)
2005	410	To Hell With Good Intentions	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005)
2004	47	She Will Only Bring You Happiness	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2004
2004	26	That Man Will Not Hang	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2004
2002	35	Alan Is A Cowboy Killer	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2002
2002	40	To Hell With Good Intentions	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2002

Comments

No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts.