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Suicidal Tendencies

Band Los Angeles United States Formed 1980 American crossover thrash band

Suicidal Tendencies formed in 1980 in Los Angeles, United States. Suicidal Tendencies has 41 chart appearances on 41 radio countdowns from 14 stations on RockLists, spanning 1983–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Institutionalized”, which appears on 39 lists with a best position of #3. The station that charted Suicidal Tendencies most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1992.

41appearances
41countdowns
2songs charted
14stations
0#1 finishes
1983–2023years

Suicidal Tendencies came howling out of Venice, Los Angeles, with Mike Muir snarling up front, and their self-titled debut in 1983 was hardcore punk at its most combustible: short, fast, tight and furious, with guitars that hinted at the metal to come. "Institutionalized" was its centerpiece, a half-spoken, half-screamed rant over a churning groove, and its video was among the earliest from the hardcore scene to land real rotation on MTV.

The lineup has been a revolving door, with Muir the only constant, but its alumni make an impressive roll call: Rocky George and Mike Clark on guitar, Robert Trujillo on bass, and drummers from Jimmy DeGrasso and Josh Freese to Brooks Wackerman. As the band grew heavier and faster on Join the Army in 1987 and then a run of albums for Epic, they helped build the crossover thrash sound, and they're often named among the genre's founding fathers alongside D.R.I., Corrosion of Conformity and Stormtroopers of Death. The Art of Rebellion in 1992 stretched into funk and progressive shapes and delivered "Asleep at the Wheel".

The band split in 1995 after parting ways with Epic, then Muir and Clark brought it back a year later. It has carried on ever since, and "Institutionalized" remains the one the countdowns can't shake.

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

Songs by Suicidal Tendencies on radio countdowns

#SongStrengthListsBest#1sPeak year
1 Institutionalized
2,618		 39 #3 – 1983
2 Asleep at the Wheel
88		 2 #30 – 1992

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Year-end chart timeline

Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.

83 92

Every countdown appearance

Year#SongCountdown
2023 156 Institutionalized The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s
2022 475 Institutionalized KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022)
2014 395 Institutionalized CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013 394 Institutionalized CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011 393 Institutionalized CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010 390 Institutionalized CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009 76 Institutionalized Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009)
2009 388 Institutionalized CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008 161 Institutionalized KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008)
2008 386 Institutionalized CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007 388 Institutionalized CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2006 15 Institutionalized KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006)
2006 268 Institutionalized WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006)
2005 261 Institutionalized WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005)
2005 657 Institutionalized 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)
2004 45 Institutionalized Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004)
2004 384 Institutionalized The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004)
2003 137 Institutionalized WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2003)
2003 56 Institutionalized Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2002 79 Institutionalized WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2002)
2002 68 Institutionalized Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2001 74 Institutionalized WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001)
2000 72 Institutionalized WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000)
1999 371 Institutionalized Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 19 Institutionalized WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999)
1999 634 Institutionalized The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 765 Institutionalized CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999)
1998 25 Institutionalized KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998)
1996 205 Institutionalized KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996)
1996 469 Institutionalized Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996)
1995 16 Institutionalized KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995)
1995 151 Institutionalized Live 105 Revolutionary 300 (July 1995)
1994 3 Institutionalized KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1994)
1992 30 Asleep at the Wheel 91X Top 91 Songs of 1992
1992 81 Asleep at the Wheel WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1992
1992 48 Institutionalized KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992)
1989 363 Institutionalized KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989)
1989 467 Institutionalized WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989)
1988 56 Institutionalized KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988)
1988 342 Institutionalized Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988)
1983 23 Institutionalized KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983

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