Song · The Decemberists
“The Wrong Year” by The Decemberists
From the album What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World (2015)
“The Wrong Year” by The Decemberists appears on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations in 2015. It was first released in 2015 on the album What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World. Its best result is #25 on the Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2015. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #49 indie & aaa song of 2015.
"The Wrong Year" sits on What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World, the seventh Decemberists album, released in January 2015. Colin Meloy wrote it and sings the lead, with Rachel Flotard adding backing vocals, and the band produced it with Tucker Martine, who also recorded and mixed it, Michael Finn assisting on the engineering.
The album took its name from a line in "12/17/12", Meloy's song named for the date of Barack Obama's speech after the Sandy Hook shooting, which weighs his conflicted feelings about the killings against a happy personal life. Reviews ran mostly warm: The New York Times heard pop concision and maturity building on The King Is Dead, though Pitchfork's Jeremy D. Larson found the album "overlong and under-ambitious".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 79 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2015 | 90 |
| 2015 | 25 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2015 | 100 |
| 2015 | 42 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2015 | 88 |
| 2015 | 95 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2015 | 104 |
| 2015 | 40 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2015 | 107 |
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