Song · Metallica
“No Leaf Clover” by Metallica
Released 1999
“No Leaf Clover” by Metallica appears on 17 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 1999 and 2007. It was first released in 1999. Its best result is #10 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #51 alternative song of 2000 and #5,862 alternative song of all time.
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"No Leaf Clover" was one of only two brand-new songs Metallica finished for S&M, their 1999 team-up with the San Francisco Symphony, the other being "−Human". James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich wrote it, and it's built for the occasion: the orchestra opens alone, Hetfield slides in on a clean guitar, and from there the song swings between clean choruses and verses shoved along by heavily distorted guitars, strings swelling behind the crunch. Bob Rock produced.
It became the band's fourth number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart and sat there for seven weeks straight. The band has kept it in the set since, bringing on the orchestral intro as a backing track or footage from the S&M show, and it later turned up as a playable track in Guitar Hero: Metallica.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 87 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1999 | 107 |
| 1999 | 93 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999 | 106 |
| 1999 | 76 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1999 | 101 |
| 1999 | 41 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999 | 100 |
| 1999 | 56 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1999 | 100 |
| 2000 | 23 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2000 | 107 |
| 2000 | 10 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2000 | 105 |
| 2000 | 19 | K-Rock New York, NY | K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2000 | 93 |
| 2000 | 20 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2000 | 89 |
| 2000 | 21 | The Edge Phoenix, AZ | KEDJ Millennium Meltdown Countdown 2001 | 50 |
| 2000 | 59 | WBCN Boston, MA | WBCN Top 104 Songs of Y2K | 102 |
| 2000 | 27 | 103.3 The Edge Buffalo, NY | 103.3 The Edge Top 103 of 2000 | 103 |
| 2000 | 79 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2000 | 100 |
| 2000 | 52 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2000 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 952 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 2000 | 76 | The Edge | KEDJ Countdown 2000 (106 songs) | 106 |
| 2007 | 297 | KROQ | KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) | 500 |
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