Song · The Bangles
“Eternal Flame” by The Bangles
From the album Everything (1988)
“Eternal Flame” by The Bangles appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1989 and 2026. It was first released in 1988 on the album Everything. Its best result is #7 on the Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 1989. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #88 alternative song of 1989 and #5,174 alternative song of all time.
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"Eternal Flame" is the Bangles going for the big slow dance: a power ballad from their third album, Everything, that Susanna Hoffs wrote with Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, a songwriting team who already had a stack of hits behind them. Davitt Sigerson produced it, John Beverly Jones recorded it and Frank Filipetti mixed.
The whole band is on the credits, Hoffs and Vicki Peterson on guitars, Michael Steele on bass and Debbi Peterson on drums, but this one is all hush and yearning. Once it went out as a single in 1989 it climbed all the way to number one in nine countries, the United States, Britain, Australia and Sweden among them.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 7 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 1989 | 30 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 456 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
| 2026 | 93 | WFPK | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '80s | 498 |
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