Song · Ruby Fields
“Dinosaurs” by Ruby Fields
From the EP Permanent Hermit (2019)
“Dinosaurs” by Ruby Fields appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2018 and 2020. It was first released in 2019 on the EP Permanent Hermit. Its best result is #9 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #85 alternative song of 2018.
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"Dinosaurs" was the lead single from Permanent Hermit, the second EP from Australian singer-songwriter Ruby Fields, and she wrote every word and note of it herself. It starts small and plainspoken, her voice and words right up front over a simple indie rock setting, then saves its knockout for the final minute, when the whole thing bursts open in a cathartic wall of noise.
There's melancholy in it, but it never wallows; the pull is in how exposed Fields sounds. Listeners stuck with it: the song went gold in Australia in 2020, and that year's APRA Awards nominated it for Most Performed Rock Work.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 9 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2018 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 84 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s (2020) | 100 |
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