Song · Nitzer Ebb
“Join in the Chant” by Nitzer Ebb
From the album That Total Age (1987)
“Join in the Chant” by Nitzer Ebb appears on 6 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1991 and 2003. It was first released in 1987 on the album That Total Age. Its best result is #129 on the CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,796 alternative song of all time.
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"Join in the Chant" was the hit that came out of That Total Age, Nitzer Ebb's debut album, reaching number 9 on the US dance chart in 1987. The songwriting credit runs five names deep, David Gooday, Simon Granger, Bon Harris, Douglas J. McCarthy and Chris Piper, and Phil Harding mixed it.
The song and the artwork are wired together: the album cover carries three symbols, each standing for a slogan, and two of those slogans come back again and again in the song itself. In the US and Canada, Geffen's vinyl and cassette editions of the album tacked on "Warsaw Ghetto", an earlier stand-alone single, and Pylon Records remastered the album in 2018.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 129 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) | 1002 |
| 1992 | 143 | Live 105 | Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1992) | 299 |
| 1996 | 400 | Q101 | Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) | 500 |
| 1999 | 306 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 2002 | 1694 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 1639 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
Also listed as: Join In The Chant; Join In the Chant.
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