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Rollins Band

Band Van Nuys United States Active 1987–2006

Rollins Band formed in 1987 in Van Nuys, United States and was active until 2006. Rollins Band has 18 chart appearances on 18 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 1992–2005. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Liar”, which appears on 15 lists with a best position of #60. The station that charted Rollins Band most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1994.

18appearances

18countdowns

4songs charted

9stations

0#1 finishes

1992–2005years

Henry Rollins had already done his time fronting Black Flag, and Rollins Band, put together in Los Angeles, was where he took the fury next. The band, with Andrew Weiss on bass and Sim Cain on drums in the early years, and later Melvin Gibbs taking over the bass, played music that was anything but simple thrash: heavy, grinding, funky, noisy and full of jazz detours, with Rollins bellowing furious, clench-jawed self-examinations over the top.

The End of Silence, in 1992, gave them "Low Self Opinion", a punishing, pummelling blast, and Weight, in 1994, brought "Liar", a slow, creepy build that erupts into a full-throated tantrum. Both songs got heavy rotation on MTV in the first half of the '90s.

The lineup kept shifting after that, with guitarist Jim Wilson, Marcus Blake and Jason Mackenroth among the later recruits, and Nice in 2001 brought "Your Number is One". VH1 ranked them at No. 47 among the greatest hard rock artists in 2000, and the band wound down in 2006.

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

Songs by Rollins Band on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Liar	508	15	#60	–	1994
2	Your Number is One	40	1	#62	–	2001
3	Low Self Opinion	16	1	#858	–	–
4	Low S.O.	7	1	#86	–	1992

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Year-end chart timeline

Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.

92 94 01

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2005	1211	Liar	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005	590	Liar	99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)
2004	430	Liar	The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004)
2004	1211	Liar	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	1211	Liar	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002	1226	Liar	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002	1110	Liar	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2001	62	Your Number is One	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001
2001	1227	Liar	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	1224	Liar	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	858	Low Self Opinion	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	781	Liar	The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	1224	Liar	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1994	106	Liar	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1994
1994	60	Liar	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1994
1994	75	Liar	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994
1994	68	Liar	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1994
1992	86	Low S.O.	91X Top 91 Songs of 1992

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