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Redd Kross

Band Hawthorne United States Formed 1980

Redd Kross formed in 1980 in Hawthorne, United States. Redd Kross has 15 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 1993–2005. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Jimmy's Fantasy”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #55. The station that charted Redd Kross most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 14 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1993.

15appearances

8countdowns

2songs charted

2stations

0#1 finishes

1993–2005years

Redd Kross go back to 1978 in Hawthorne, California, when brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald started a punk band called the Tourists while Steve was still in middle school. Friends Greg Hetson on guitar and John Stielow on drums joined in, and the kids' first gig was opening for Black Flag, which is about as South Bay punk as an origin story gets. They became Red Cross in 1979, then in 1982 changed the spelling when the International Red Cross threatened legal action.

They started out as hardcore punks, but the McDonalds never stayed inside the lines for long, and the music spread out into power pop, alternative rock and just about every flavor of rock and roll, with a grin plastered across all of it. The lineup kept spinning around the two brothers: Ron Reyes, Robert Hecker, Victor Indrizzo, Jack Irons and more all passed through.

By Phaseshifter in 1993, with Brian Reitzell, Eddie Kurdziel and Gere Fennelly in the band, they sounded like a garage full of fuzz pedals and AM radio memories, and "Jimmy's Fantasy" is all sugar-rush hooks and crunching guitars. Hecker came back in 2004, and the band has put out eight albums and three EPs, the brothers still at the center of the noise.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Redd Kross on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Jimmy's Fantasy	294	8	#55	–	1993
2	The Lady In The Front Row	275	7	#1210	–	–

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

1993Phaseshifter1 charting song

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2005	1210	The Lady In The Front Row	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005	1294	Jimmy's Fantasy	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	1210	The Lady In The Front Row	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004	1294	Jimmy's Fantasy	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	1210	The Lady In The Front Row	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003	1294	Jimmy's Fantasy	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002	1225	The Lady In The Front Row	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002	1309	Jimmy's Fantasy	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001	1226	The Lady In The Front Row	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001	1310	Jimmy's Fantasy	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	1223	The Lady In The Front Row	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000	1305	Jimmy's Fantasy	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	1222	The Lady In The Front Row	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	1305	Jimmy's Fantasy	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1993	55	Jimmy's Fantasy	Live 105 Top 105 Songs of 1993

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