Song · Neko Case
“Bad Luck” by Neko Case
From the album Hell‐On (2018)
“Bad Luck” by Neko Case appears on 12 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 2018 and 2026. It was first released in 2018 on the album Hell‐On. Its best result is #21 on the WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #19 indie & aaa song of 2018, #1,697 indie & aaa song of all time and #204 of the '10s.
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"Bad Luck" comes from Hell-On, Neko Case's seventh studio album, released on Anti- in 2018 and made mostly in Stockholm while her life back home came apart: obsessive stalkers, and then a fire that took her Vermont farmhouse while she was in Sweden working on the record. The song, written with Paul Rigby, meets all that with a sly, rolling swagger, and Case produced it with Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John.
Yttling plays bass, keyboards and guitar, with Peter Morén and Case also on guitars, Tobias Tagesson on drums and engineer Thom Monahan adding tambourine and, of all things, tuba. Robert Forster, Kelly Hogan and Nora O'Connor stack their backing vocals behind Case's own voice. Case mixed it with Lasse Mårtén.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 21 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2018 | 90 |
| 2018 | 36 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2018 | 50 |
| 2018 | 36 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2018 | 90 |
| 2018 | 52 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2018 | 200 |
| 2018 | 53 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2018 | 104 |
| 2018 | 41 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2018 | 89 |
| 2018 | 35 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2018 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 301 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 301 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2022 | 826 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2024 | 983 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2026 | 65 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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