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“Big Decisions” by My Morning Jacket
From the album The Waterfall (2015)
“Big Decisions” by My Morning Jacket appears on 9 radio countdowns from 9 stations in 2015. It was first released in 2015 on the album The Waterfall. Its best result is #12 on the Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2015. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #89 alternative song of 2015.
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"Big Decisions" led off The Waterfall, My Morning Jacket's seventh studio album, out on Capitol in 2015, and it's a song about inertia: people who know exactly what's making them unhappy and still won't change a thing. Frontman Jim James wrote it with Dan Wilson, then produced it with Tucker Martine, who also recorded and mixed the track, while Michael Finn and Kevin Ratterman engineered.
The band cut it again back home in Louisville, and the finished take has the warm, roomy glow of a group completely at ease in its own skin. It gave them their best showing on the US Adult Alternative Songs chart, where it climbed to number seven.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2015 | 103 |
| 2015 | 19 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2015 | 107 |
| 2015 | 38 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2015 | 90 |
| 2015 | 12 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2015 | 100 |
| 2015 | 88 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2015 | 125 |
| 2015 | 96 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2015 | 103 |
| 2015 | 41 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2015 | 88 |
| 2015 | 18 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2015 | 104 |
| 2015 | 39 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2015 | 50 |
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