Artist · chart history
Snake River Conspiracy
Band San Francisco United States
Snake River Conspiracy formed in San Francisco, United States. Snake River Conspiracy has 3 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Vulcan”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #29. The station that charted Snake River Conspiracy most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2000.
Snake River Conspiracy was cooked up in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1998 as a project for singer Tobey Torres and producers Eric Valentine and Jason Slater, and a two-song demo was enough to land them at Interscope that same year. Valentine bowed out soon after to concentrate on producing, and label trouble bounced the band from Interscope to Elektra and finally to Reprise.
The debut EP and single "Vulcan", out on October 5, 1999, drew rave reviews, and NME made it Single of the Week. The album Sonic Jihad followed in the United States on July 11, 2000, all serrated synths, drum-machine thud and grinding guitars, with Torres gliding coolly over the menace. Their calling card was a cover of the Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?", stripped of its jangle and dragged into the industrial dark; it reached 15 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart and 38 on Modern Rock Tracks, and later got a UK reissue on Morpheus.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Snake River Conspiracy on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vulcan | 1 | #29 | – | 2000 | |
| 2 | How Soon is Now? | 2 | #91 | – | 2000 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 95 | How Soon is Now? | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2000 |
| 2000 | 91 | How Soon is Now? | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2000 |
| 2000 | 29 | Vulcan | WBER Listener Countdown 2000 |
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