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“The Golden Path” by The Chemical Brothers featuring Wayne Coyne
Released 2002 Featuring Wayne Coyne
“The Golden Path” by The Chemical Brothers featuring Wayne Coyne appears on 7 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2003 and 2005. It was first released in 2002. Its best result is #11 on the WEQX Top 102.7 of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #111 alternative song of 2003 and #6,867 alternative song of all time.
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The Chemical Brothers tucked a summit meeting onto Singles 93–03, their first greatest-hits collection: "The Golden Path", a team-up with the Flaming Lips that bolts big-beat muscle onto a wide-eyed psychedelic singalong. Wayne Coyne sings lead and Steven Drozd steps up on backing vocals, and both Lips share the writing credit with Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons.
Coyne was already a fan of the English duo, and by his account the Lips knocked out their part fast and almost offhand, only to hear back from Tom and Ed within 20 minutes of the tape arriving, the pair audibly bouncing off the walls. AllMusic's John Bush counted it among the collection's best, catching a whiff of Echo & the Bunnymen and noting it as Drozd's first turn as a singer. It went top 20 in the UK and reached 10 in Spain.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 12 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2003 | 101 |
| 2003 | 58 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2003 | 196 |
| 2003 | 11 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2003 | 103 |
| 2003 | 81 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2003 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1917 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1917 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1907 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
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