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Mother Love Bone

Band Seattle United States Active 1987–1990

Mother Love Bone formed in 1987 in Seattle, United States and was active until 1990. Mother Love Bone has 49 chart appearances on 24 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 1994–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns”, which appears on 18 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Mother Love Bone most often is KISW (Seattle-Tacoma, WA), with 30 appearances.

49appearances

24countdowns

6songs charted

9stations

0#1 finishes

1994–2022years

Mother Love Bone were the Seattle band everyone figured would break out first, and for a while they looked like a sure thing. Andrew Wood fronted them with charisma to burn and a songwriter's knack for a big, swaggering hook, and behind him stood Stone Gossard on guitar and Jeff Ament on bass, alongside Bruce Fairweather and Greg Gilmore. Their sound was a sprawling, glammed-up hybrid of hard rock and heavy metal, and it lifted them to the top of a Seattle scene that was only starting to boil. They were the first band from that circle to land a major-label deal.

The Shine EP came out late in 1989, and its long, aching centerpiece "Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns" opens as a hushed ballad and swells into a slow-burning epic. The full-length album Apple was all set to go, with "Stardog Champion", "Stargazer" and "Gentle Groove" among its songs, but in March 1990 Wood died, just before its release, and the band ended with him. Apple came out a few months later anyway.

The survivors scattered, most famously Gossard and Ament, who went on to form Pearl Jam. Mother Love Bone are remembered as a key influence on grunge and early trailblazers of alternative metal, and demos, B-sides and live recordings have kept surfacing in the years since.

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

Songs by Mother Love Bone on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	966	18	#6	–	–
2	Stardog Champion	537	9	#87	–	–
3	This Is Shangrilas	282	5	#314	–	–
4	Stargazer	224	10	#498	–	–
5	Hold Your Head Up	128	6	#478	–	–
6	Gentle Groove	26	1	#1477	–	–

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2022	81	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022)
2022	314	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s
2021	815	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s
2021	6	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	KISW 25 Greatest Soundtrack Songs in Rock
2009	1990	Stargazer	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008	1959	Stargazer	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007	1965	Stargazer	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2005	1376	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	1376	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004	87	Stardog Champion	WBCN Grunge Top 104 (2004)
2003	1376	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002	35	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	WFNX Top 50 Grunge Songs of All-Time (June 2002)
2002	1390	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002	474	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002)
2002	478	Hold Your Head Up	KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002)
2002	774	Stardog Champion	KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002)
2002	776	Stargazer	KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002)
2002	385	Stardog Champion	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2002	1252	Stargazer	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2002	1477	Gentle Groove	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2001	1391	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	1390	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	276	Stardog Champion	The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	1390	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	140	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999)
1999	397	Stardog Champion	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999)
1999	619	This Is Shangrilas	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999)
1999	810	Stargazer	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999)
1999	983	Hold Your Head Up	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999)
1998	173	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998)
1998	326	Stardog Champion	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998)
1998	448	This Is Shangrilas	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998)
1998	790	Stargazer	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998)
1998	987	Hold Your Head Up	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998)
1996	152	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996)
1996	333	Stardog Champion	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996)
1996	417	This Is Shangrilas	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996)
1996	621	Hold Your Head Up	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996)
1996	733	Stargazer	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996)
1995	119	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)
1995	206	Stardog Champion	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)
1995	314	This Is Shangrilas	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)
1995	590	Stargazer	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)
1995	802	Hold Your Head Up	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)
1994	172	Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994)
1994	329	Stardog Champion	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994)
1994	384	This Is Shangrilas	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994)
1994	498	Stargazer	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994)
1994	853	Hold Your Head Up	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994)

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