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“My God is the Sun” by Queens of the Stone Age
From the album …Like Clockwork (2013)
“My God is the Sun” by Queens of the Stone Age appears on 11 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 2013 and 2014. It was first released in 2013 on the album …Like Clockwork. Its best result is #13 on The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2013. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #31 alternative song of 2013, #7,592 alternative song of all time and #364 of the '10s.
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Queens of the Stone Age announced ...Like Clockwork with "My God Is the Sun", the first single from their sixth album, playing it live for the first time at Lollapalooza Brazil in March 2013 before the studio take premiered on BBC Radio 1 that April. Dave Grohl sits in on drums and percussion, and Josh Homme, who wrote the words and sings them, produced it with the band, with Mark "Top" Rankin engineering and mixing.
It's a relentless, galloping thing, all coiled menace and swagger. It earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance and, though it lost, the band closed the ceremony with it alongside Grohl, Lindsey Buckingham and Nine Inch Nails, only for the broadcast to roll credits and ads over them, a slight Trent Reznor didn't take quietly.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 39 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2013 | 91 |
| 2013 | 35 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2013 | 103 |
| 2013 | 13 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2013 | 99 |
| 2013 | 44 | 94.3 WCYY Portland, ME | WCYY Year End Top 50 of 2013 | 50 |
| 2013 | 90 | 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL | 97X Top 97 of 2013 | 97 |
| 2013 | 26 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2013 | 40 |
| 2013 | 85 | 94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX | 94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2013 | 94 |
| 2013 | 35 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2013 | 135 |
| 2013 | 54 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2013 | 88 |
| 2013 | 97 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2013 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1973 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
Also listed as: My God Is The Sun; My God Is the Sun.
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