“Tomorrow” by Silverchair

"Tomorrow" is the song that carried Silverchair out of Australia and onto radios around the world. Singer and lead guitarist Daniel Johns wrote it with drummer Ben Gillies, and Silverchair first put it out on their debut EP, also called Tomorrow, in 1994 before cutting it again for their first album, Frogstomp, which followed on 27 March 1995 with the song as its lead single.

It's grunge at its most direct: a slow, heavy verse that simmers, then a chorus that blows the doors open, Johns howling as if the song might tear him in half. Nobody would call it subtle, but it's built like a battering ram.

Australia gave it six weeks at number one on the ARIA chart and three trophies at the 1995 ARIA Awards, Single of the Year, Highest Selling Single and Breakthrough Artist – Single among them. The re-recorded version then topped the New Zealand chart and both of Billboard's rock radio charts, Modern Rock and Album Rock. Later honors kept coming: Triple M's Ozzest 100 put it at 36 in 2018, and in 2020 the National Film and Sound Archive added it to its Sounds of Australia registry.

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