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“The Good Left Undone” by Rise Against
From the album The Sufferer & The Witness (2006)
“The Good Left Undone” by Rise Against appears on 22 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 2007 and 2023. It was first released in 2006 on the album The Sufferer & The Witness. Its best result is #3 on the Buzz 103.1 Top 103 Buzz Cuts of 2008. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #40 alternative song of 2008, #3,389 alternative song of all time and #362 of the '00s.
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"The Good Left Undone" was the third single from The Sufferer & the Witness, Rise Against's fourth album, from 2006, and it hit radio on May 22, 2007. Their melodic hardcore gets a big, clean chorus here without losing its sprint: Tim McIlrath, who wrote the words, sings and plays guitar alongside Chris Chasse, with Joe Principe on bass and Brandon Barnes on drums. Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore produced and recorded it, and Chris Lord-Alge mixed.
The band ran a fan contest for the best video through their Myspace page, then premiered their own clip on MTV's website on June 25, 2007, with MTV2 playing it every hour. On Billboard's Alternative Songs chart it crawled for 30 weeks before peaking at number six, their second top-10 there after "Prayer of the Refugee" and the album's highest-charting single.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 438 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008) | 500 |
| 2009 | 77 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of All-Time (2009) | 200 |
| 2010 | 130 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 New Rock Songs of the Millennium | 200 |
| 2010 | 58 | WJRR | WJRR Top 101 Songs of the Decade | 101 |
| 2014 | 317 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) | 500 |
| 2015 | 346 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) | 500 |
| 2019 | 442 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) | 500 |
| 2023 | 437 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) | 500 |
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