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“S.O.B.” by Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats
From the album Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats (2015)
“S.O.B.” by Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats appears on 34 radio countdowns from 21 stations between 2015 and 2026. It was first released in 2015 on the album Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats. Its best result is #1 on the WEQX Top 102.7 of 2015, and it was voted number one on three countdowns in total. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #24 alternative song of 2015, #4,421 alternative song of all time and #222 of the '10s.
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"S.O.B." was the lead single from Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats' self-titled debut, released on Stax, and it's a stomping soul number with a dark joke at its core. Rateliff wrote it alone, and by his own account it's a troubled song about drinking your life away after a breakup, drawn from his own bout of delirium tremens while going through alcohol withdrawal. He also called it a joke song; the band hadn't planned to record it until audiences took to it.
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon gave it a push on August 5, 2015, and the video, directed by Greg Barnes, has the band playing for an audience of prisoners, a nod to the closing credits of The Blues Brothers from 1980. It has since turned up in Lipton iced tea ads and in the season three premiere of FX's Fargo.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2015 | 91 |
| 2015 | 13 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 25 Songs of 2015 | 25 |
| 2015 | 9 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2015 | 89 |
| 2015 | 99 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2015 | 99 |
| 2015 | 17 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2015 | 104 |
| 2015 | 2 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2015 | 89 |
| 2015 | 1 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2015 | 90 |
| 2015 | 18 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2015 | 50 |
| 2015 | 6 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2015 | 107 |
| 2015 | 4 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2015 | 89 |
| 2015 | 1 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2015 | 103 |
All-time and decade countdowns
Also listed as: S.O.B; SOB.
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