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“Goddess On A Hiway” by Mercury Rev
From the album Deserter’s Songs (1998)
“Goddess On A Hiway” by Mercury Rev appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1998 and 2006. It was first released in 1998 on the album Deserter’s Songs. Its best result is #33 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #312 alternative song of 1998 and #7,489 alternative song of all time.
Mercury Rev led off Deserter's Songs, their fourth album, with "Goddess on a Hiway", a single first issued on November 2, 1998 and reissued on August 16, 1999. Jonathan Donahue wrote the words and built the music with Grasshopper Mackowiak, Dave Fridmann produced, and V2 put it out.
The title is a trick of the ear: a first-verse line about getting onto a highway slides, by sound alone, into the goddess the song is named for. Anton Corbijn directed one of its two videos and James & Alex the other, and Sean O'Hagan guests on the B-side cover of "I Only Have Eyes for You". NME later put it at number 122 on a list of the 150 best tracks of the previous 15 years, and in 2021 it turned up in the film Gunpowder Milkshake.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 33 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1998 | 50 |
| 1999 | 89 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 498 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005) | 500 |
| 2006 | 486 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006) | 499 |
Also listed as: Goddess On A Highway; Goddess on a Highway.
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