Song · The Crystal Method
“Keep Hope Alive” by The Crystal Method
From the album Vegas (1997)
“Keep Hope Alive” by The Crystal Method appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 1998. It was first released in 1997 on the album Vegas. Its best result is #64 on the WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #210 alternative song of 1998.
"Keep Hope Alive" hit the racks as a single on the City of Angels label in October 1996, the year before it landed on The Crystal Method's album Vegas. Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland wrote it, The Crystal Method produced and mixed it, and the voice on it comes from outside the studio: vocal samples cut from "You Do Not Stand Alone", a 1992 speech by Jesse Jackson, turned loose over the beats.
It has led a busy second life on screens: it drives an early action sequence in The Replacement Killers and sits on that film's soundtrack, pumps through a nightclub dance floor in Species back in 1995, served as the Third Watch theme and keeps resurfacing on Ninja Warrior. Gamers met it in FIFA: Road to World Cup 98, Project Gotham Racing 4 and Motor Mayhem, and Moonshine Music reissued the single in July 2001.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 64 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998 | 102 |
| 1998 | 69 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1998 | 98 |
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