Song · Sarah McLachlan
“Possession (Live)” by Sarah McLachlan
From the album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993)
“Possession (Live)” by Sarah McLachlan appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1999. It was first released in 1993 on the album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. Its best result is #38 on the 89X Top 89 Songs of 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #229 alternative song of 1999.
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"Possession" was the first single from Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, released in Canada by Nettwerk on 10 September 1993, and this is one of the live versions Sarah McLachlan later put out. She wrote the song herself, and Pierre Marchand produced the studio original, which turns up twice on the album: once to open it and again as a hidden solo piano version tucked away at the end.
It's an unnerving song for all its beauty, sung from inside the head of a man fixated on a woman, and it grew out of the fan letters that had kept arriving for McLachlan for some time before she wrote it. The original recording also made her 2008 best-of, Closer.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 38 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 1999 | 89 |
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