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“April 29, 1992 (Miami)” by Sublime

From the album Sublime (1996)

“April 29, 1992 (Miami)” by Sublime appears on 16 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2003 and 2022. It was first released in 1996 on the album Sublime. Its best result is #21 on the KEDJ Top 103 on Independent Radio. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,826 alternative song of all time.

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#21best position

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April 29, 1992 (Miami)

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"April 29, 1992 (Miami)" sits on Sublime's self-titled 1996 album, and its title pins down the day Los Angeles erupted, when the acquittal of four cops in the videotaped Rodney King beating sent the city into riot. The song plays like a street-level dispatch from that chaos, a rundown of arson, robbery and vandalism rattled off over a loping hip-hop groove. Oddly, the date sung on the record is April 26; the story goes that it was a flub, but the take was too good to scrap.

Bradley Nowell wrote it with Marshall Goodman, who works the turntables, and Michael "Miguel" Happoldt. David Kahne produced and mixed it and sat in on piano, and Todd Forman's saxophone drifts through the haze.

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
2003	89	91X	91X Top 91 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)	91
2004	241	Q101	Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004)	300
2004	159	107.7 The End	The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004)	500
2005	21	The Edge	KEDJ Top 103 on Independent Radio	103
2006	122	KROQ	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006)	500
2007	84	KROQ	KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007)	500
2007	1732	CD101	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)	2008
2008	184	KROQ	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008)	500
2008	1672	CD101	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)	2009
2009	152	Live 105	Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009)	500
2009	1644	CD101	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)	2010
2010	1631	CD101	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)	2011
2011	1586	CD101	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)	2011
2013	1562	CD101	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)	2012
2014	1549	CD101	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)	2013
2022	458	101X	101X 500 (2022)	498

Also listed as: April 29, 1992; April 26, 1992; April 29th, 1992.

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