Song · Stabilo
“Flawed Design” by Stabilo
From the album Happiness & Disaster (2006)
“Flawed Design” by Stabilo appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2006. It was first released in 2006 on the album Happiness & Disaster. Its best result is #19 on The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2006. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #42 hard rock song of 2006 and #273 of the '00s.
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"Flawed Design" was the first single from Happiness & Disaster, the album Canadian indie rockers Stabilo put out on EMI in 2006, though the band had been playing it live since at least May 2004. The single went out that January, a few months before the album finally gave the song a home in April.
It's a roll call of human failings: lying, temptation, broken trust, deviousness, treason. Stephen Scott's video acts that out with people covering up their own lapses, from cheating to bribery. Canadian radio couldn't get enough of it. The song topped Canadian Music Network's Hot Adult Contemporary chart, which brought a SOCAN award, went gold as a digital download, and picked up a second SOCAN award for racking up more plays on Canadian radio than anything else in 2006.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 19 | The Bear Ottawa, ON | The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2006 | 107 |
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