Song · Mudvayne
“Not Falling” by Mudvayne
From the album The End of All Things to Come (2002)
“Not Falling” by Mudvayne appears on 8 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2002 and 2010. It was first released in 2002 on the album The End of All Things to Come. Its best result is #44 on the WJRR Top 101 Songs of the Decade. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #240 alternative song of 2002.
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"Not Falling" was the first single from The End of All Things to Come, Mudvayne's second full-length album, released on Epic in 2002, and it stood as the band's biggest chart success until "Happy?" came along in 2005. Chad Gray, Ryan Martinie, Matthew McDonough and Greg Tribbett wrote it as a song about holding your ground and refusing to quit. It opens and closes with pummeling, screamed passages and drops into a spacey, melodic stretch in the middle, a pressure-release valve before the walls close in again.
The band shot two official videos. The first turns them into veiny creatures with white bug eyes, thrashing in a dark chamber while parasites swim through someone's bloodstream; the second, directed by Dean Karr, drops the costumes and puts them in a blizzard. Years later, during a 2022 reunion show in Tampa, Gray tumbled from the stage in the middle of this very song, and he laughed off the irony.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 50 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2002 | 106 |
| 2002 | 85 | 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL | Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2002 | 103 |
| 2002 | 83 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2002 | 224 |
| 2002 | 56 | KNAC Los Angeles, CA | KNAC Top 105 Songs of 2002 | 105 |
| 2003 | 60 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2003 | 100 |
| 2003 | 50 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2003 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 162 | Q101 | Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004) | 300 |
| 2010 | 44 | WJRR | WJRR Top 101 Songs of the Decade | 101 |
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