Artist · chart history
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Band Chicago United States Formed 1987
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult formed in 1987 in Chicago, United States. My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult has 16 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 1991–2015. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Sex On Wheelz”, which appears on 13 lists with a best position of #48. The station that charted My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult most often is WOXY 97X (Cincinnati, OH), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1991.
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult is the sound of a Chicago warehouse party thrown by B-movie devil worshippers with their tongues firmly in their cheeks. Groovie Mann (Frank Nicholas Nardiello) and Buzz McCoy (Marston Daley) founded it in 1987, and through the late '80s they were counted among industrial music's pioneers, all clanking machines and sampled sleaze, with lyrics and stage shows that poked fun at Satan, Jesus and sex in roughly equal measure.
By the early '90s the grind had turned into a strut, with a sound leaning hard toward disco. Sexplosion! in 1991 is the proof, and "Sex On Wheelz" is a leering, camp, relentlessly danceable ride. Around then the singles kept landing on American club and alternative charts, landed songs on film soundtracks and even showed up in The Crow in 1994, with records on Interscope and Rykodisc along the way.
The lineup has kept rotating around Mann and McCoy, with Thomas Thorn among those who passed through, and the band kept recording and touring long enough to mark its 30th anniversary in 2017.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sex On Wheelz | 13 | #48 | – | 1991 | |
| 2 | Radio Silicon | 1 | #77 | – | 2002 | |
| 3 | Hit And Run Holiday | 1 | #26 | – | 1995 | |
| 4 | Diamonde Doll | 1 | #110 | – | 2015 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 110 | Diamonde Doll | WBER Listener Countdown 2015 |
| 2003 | 423 | Sex On Wheelz | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2003) |
| 2003 | 594 | Sex On Wheelz | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) |
| 2002 | 77 (tie) | Radio Silicon | WBER Listener Countdown 2002 |
| 2002 | 403 | Sex On Wheelz | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2002) |
| 2002 | 280 | Sex On Wheelz | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) |
| 2001 | 410 | Sex On Wheelz | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) |
| 2000 | 407 | Sex On Wheelz | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) |
| 1999 | 400 | Sex On Wheelz | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) |
| 1999 | 873 | Sex On Wheelz | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) |
| 1995 | 26 | Hit And Run Holiday | WBER Listener Countdown 1995 |
| 1992 | 85 | Sex On Wheelz | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1992 |
| 1992 | 85 | Sex On Wheelz | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1992 |
| 1991 | 74 | Sex On Wheelz | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1991 |
| 1991 | 48 | Sex On Wheelz | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1991 |
| 1991 | 104 | Sex On Wheelz | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1991 |
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