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“Dance Of The Clairvoyants” by Pearl Jam

From the album Gigaton (2020)

“Dance Of The Clairvoyants” by Pearl Jam appears on 14 radio countdowns from 14 stations in 2020. It was first released in 2020 on the album Gigaton. Its best result is #5 on the WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2020. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #34 alternative song of 2020 and #168 of the '20s.

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"Dance of the Clairvoyants" was Pearl Jam's opening move for Gigaton, their eleventh studio album, dropped as the lead single on January 22, 2020, a day after a 15-second teaser hit the band's social feeds. Eddie Vedder wrote the lyrics and all five members share the music, but the real story is how they shuffled the deck: Stone Gossard plays bass, Jeff Ament moves to guitar and keyboards, and Mike McCready and Matt Cameron both pitch in on percussion alongside McCready's guitar.

The result has more electronic pulse in it than anything the band had done before, a jittery, forward-leaning groove that Ament credited to genuine experimentation and collaboration, built around Cameron's drum pattern. Josh Evans produced it with the band, engineered it with John Burton and mixed it.

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
2020	15	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 2020	91
2020	77	The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2020	89
2020	34	WERS 88.9 Boston, MA	WERS Top 88 Songs of 2020	88
2020	35	WFUV New York, NY	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2020	90
2020	5	WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2020	104
2020	80	Indie 102.3 Denver, CO	Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2020	103
2020	34	107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2020	107
2020	56	90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO	90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2020	90
2020	31	WXPN Philadelphia, PA	WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2020	100
2020	44	Lightning 100 Nashville, TN	Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2020	199
2020	32	X96 Salt Lake City, UT	X96 Top 50 Songs of 2020	50
2020	31	WBER Rochester, NY	WBER Listener Countdown 2020	64
2020	65	88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2020	88
2020	93	102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2020	103

Also listed as: Dance of the Clairvoyants; Dance Of the Clairvoyants.

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