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“Wide Awake” by Parquet Courts
From the album Wide Awake! (2018)
“Wide Awake” by Parquet Courts appears on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2018 and 2022. It was first released in 2018 on the album Wide Awake!. Its best result is #7 on the Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #44 indie & aaa song of 2018, #5,111 indie & aaa song of all time and #485 of the '10s.
"Wide Awake" shares its name, give or take an exclamation mark, with Wide Awake!, the sixth Parquet Courts album, which Rough Trade released on May 18, 2018, and it was one of three singles the American indie rockers sent out ahead of it. Danger Mouse produced, Kennie Takahashi engineered with extra help from Jonathan Schenke, and Claudius Mittendorfer mixed.
That pairing was deliberate mischief. The band wanted to shove themselves out of their comfort zone, and Andrew Savage liked the idea of handing a record steeped in punk and funk to a pop producer known for polish, precisely because it didn't add up. They cut the album at Sonic Ranch, outside Tornillo, Texas, over December 2017 and January 2018, chasing the push and pull between joy and anger that Savage says runs all through it.
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 | 72 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2018 | 90 |
| 2018 | 7 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2018 | 200 |
| 2018 | 7 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2018 | 89 |
| 2018 | 31 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2018 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 533 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
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