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“Ever Fallen in Love” by The Buzzcocks

Released 1985

“Ever Fallen in Love” by The Buzzcocks appears on 33 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 1991 and 2023. It was first released in 1985. Its best result is #19 on the Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,250 alternative song of all time.

33countdowns
12stations
#19best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1991–2023years charted

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Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)

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Buzzcocks' 1978 heartbreaker "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" was born in front of a guest-house telly. In November 1977 the band were on a headline tour of Britain, and in Edinburgh, pints in hand, Pete Shelley half-watched Guys and Dolls until a line of Adelaide's about loving the wrong person snagged in his ear. The next day he scribbled the lyrics in a van parked outside the main post office on Waterloo Place, and the music followed soon after.

Shelley wrote the lot and sang it, and he later said it was about Francis Cookson, a man he lived with for around seven years. It's a love song with a stitch in its side, all buzzsaw guitars and breakneck exasperation, and it went to number 12 in Britain and found a home on the album Love Bites.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1991 451 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991) 500
1992 178 Live 105 Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1992) 299
1995 248 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 300 (July 1995) 300
1999 471 91X 91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999) 500
1999 851 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
2000 347 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) 500
2001 347 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) 498
2001 385 Virgin Radio Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 500
2002 419 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2002) 500
2002 19 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 304 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2003) 500
2003 275 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 404 Virgin Radio Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 500
2004 363 WXPN WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) 885
2005 250 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005) 500
2005 477 Virgin Radio Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 500
2005 82 Virgin Radio Virgin Radio Top 100 Brit Songs of All-Time (May 2005) 100
2006 137 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006) 499
2006 452 Virgin Radio Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006) 500
2007 1764 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1724 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1635 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1469 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1437 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1341 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1260 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2014 711 WXPN WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014) 885
2019 77 KEXP KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time 627
2020 630 WXPN WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time 2020
2022 62 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s 908
2022 477 X96 X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time 500
2022 936 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time 1055
2023 489 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time 909

Also listed as: Ever Fallen in Love?; Ever Fallen In Love; Ever Fallin' In Love; Ever Fallen In Love?; Ever Fallin Love.

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