Song · Sting
“This Cowboy Song” by Sting
From the album Mercury Falling (1996)
“This Cowboy Song” by Sting appears on 6 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1999 and 2004. It was first released in 1996 on the album Mercury Falling. Its best result is #1145 on the CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,842 alternative song of all time.
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"This Cowboy Song" found Sting saddling up in 1994, cut at Lake House in Wiltshire that August and September as one of two fresh tracks, alongside "When We Dance", for his first best-of, Fields of Gold. He produced it with Hugh Padgham, and Pato Banton drops in with a spoken turn that gives the thing a loose, sun-baked swagger. Under the dusty trappings, it's a song about mortality: a cowboy taking stock of the life he's got and how much of it is left.
A&M put it out as a single early in 1995, and it went to number 15 in Britain and 34 in Canada, though America never got it as a single. Howard Greenhalgh shot the video in Spain, and Sting reckoned it packed in every Western cliché ever put on film.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1157 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1159 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1161 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1160 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1145 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1145 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
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