Song · Powderfinger
“Living Type” by Powderfinger
From the album Double Allergic (1996)
“Living Type” by Powderfinger appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1996. It was first released in 1996 on the album Double Allergic. Its best result is #32 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #173 alternative song of 1996.
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"Living Type" was the third single from Double Allergic, Powderfinger's second album, and it hit the racks through Polydor on 11 November 1996. Singer Bernard Fanning wrote it about a dark subject, the victims of Charles Manson, and Triple J listeners voted it into the Hottest 100 that year, the first time the band had made the list.
The single came with a strange bonus. Its lone B-side, "Other Delicacies", was really six 90-second chunks of music over instrumental beds, recorded as one block so you couldn't skip a thing; as guitarist Darren Middleton put it, you had to hear the whole single. The band first played "Living Type" live while opening for You Am I on the Uptight Express Tour, dates that went far better than their shows with Pantera, which the band found hard going.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 32 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996 | 100 |
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