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“Tahitian Moon” by Porno for Pyros
From the album Good God’s Urge (1996)
“Tahitian Moon” by Porno for Pyros appears on 15 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 1996 and 2021. It was first released in 1996 on the album Good God’s Urge. Its best result is #9 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #19 alternative song of 1996, #4,499 alternative song of all time and #265 of the '90s.
"Tahitian Moon" comes from Good God's Urge, the second and final Porno for Pyros album, released on Warner Bros. on May 28, 1996, and its title reads like a postcard from the travels that shaped the record. The band dreamed the album up over two years of surf trips to Tahiti, Indonesia, Samoa, Costa Rica and Mexico, and the travel doubled as a way to get clean from serious drug habits. That struggle fed straight into this song's lyrics.
Perry Farrell wrote it with Peter DiStefano, Martyn LeNoble and Stephen Perkins, and Matt Hyde and Thomas Johnson produced. The trips pulled the album toward a more acoustic sound, away from hard rock, and the sessions at Shangri-La in Malibu weren't smooth: LeNoble left before his bass parts were finished, and Mike Watt helped the band get the record done.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 9 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1996 | 107 |
| 1996 | 59 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1996 | 91 |
| 1996 | 15 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1996 | 25 |
| 1996 | 21 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1996 | 101 |
| 1996 | 14 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1996 | 99 |
| 1996 | 9 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1996 | 107 |
| 1996 | 11 | WBCN Boston, MA | WBCN Top 104 Songs of 1996 | 104 |
| 1996 | 33 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 96 Songs of 1996 | 96 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 492 | WHFS | WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 373 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 981 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 1999 | 958 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
| 2005 | 969 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
| 2007 | 411 | KROQ | KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) | 500 |
| 2021 | 329 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
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