Song · Rob Zombie
“Never Gonna Stop” by Rob Zombie
Released 2002
“Never Gonna Stop” by Rob Zombie appears on 10 radio countdowns from 10 stations in 2002. It was first released in 2002. Its best result is #20 on the WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #77 alternative song of 2002.
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"Never Gonna Stop (The Red, Red Kroovy)" went out as a promotional single from The Sinister Urge, Rob Zombie's second album, and it's Zombie in full carnival-of-gore mode: a grinding alt-metal stomp he co-wrote with Scott Humphrey and wired straight into the pulp-horror mainframe. The subtitle comes from A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel, where Alex DeLarge's slang for blood gets a workout, and the lyrics nod to the book more than once. A sample from the 1969 horror flick The Curious Dr. Humpp adds a shot of drive-in sleaze.
It got around, too: onto the soundtracks of Rollerball and Walking Tall, into the Atari game Test Drive: Eve of Destruction, and, from 2001 to 2004, into arenas every time WWE wrestler Edge made his way to the ring. It even picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance, losing out to Korn's "Here to Stay".
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
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 47 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2002 | 107 |
| 2002 | 57 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002 | 106 |
| 2002 | 20 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2002 | 100 |
| 2002 | 61 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 2002 | 107 |
| 2002 | 73 | Y100 Philadelphia, PA | Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2002 | 100 |
| 2002 | 26 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2002 | 106 |
| 2002 | 70 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2002 | 224 |
| 2002 | 40 | Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT | WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 2002 | 104 |
| 2002 | 66 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2002 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 912 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
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