Song · Moby
“Extreme Ways” by Moby
From the album 18 (2002)
“Extreme Ways” by Moby appears on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2002 and 2024. It was first released in 2002 on the album 18. Its best result is #32 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 40 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #146 alternative song of 2002.
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"Extreme Ways" was the second single from 18, Moby's sixth album, released in 2002, and it's a one-man show from top to bottom: Moby wrote the words and music, played it, sang it, engineered it, mixed it and produced it. The backbone is borrowed, though, with strings sampled from Hugo Winterhalter's cover of "Everybody's Talkin'" and drums from Melvin Bliss's "Synthetic Substitution".
Its real second act came at the movies. It plays out all five Bourne films: the original version over the closing credits of The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, and newly recorded versions for The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Legacy and Jason Bourne. Wayne Isham directed both of its videos, and in 2024 Moby reworked it once more with the Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 51 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2002 | 101 |
| 2002 | 97 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2002 | 99 |
| 2002 | 59 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2002 | 224 |
| 2002 | 32 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 40 Songs of 2002 | 40 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 670 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
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