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Cover of Transmissions From the Satellite Heart by The Flaming Lips
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“She Don't Use Jelly” by The Flaming Lips

From the album Transmissions From the Satellite Heart (1993)

“She Don't Use Jelly” by The Flaming Lips appears on 47 radio countdowns from 18 stations between 1994 and 2026. It was first released in 1993 on the album Transmissions From the Satellite Heart. Its best result is #62 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1994. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #178 alternative song of 1994 and #635 alternative song of all time.

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18stations
#62best position
0#1 finishes
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1994–2026years charted

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"She Don't Use Jelly" came off the Flaming Lips' 1993 album Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, their sixth, and it's the sound of a weird band stumbling into a novelty hit without changing a thing about itself. Wayne Coyne says the song arrived in a rush and struck him as kind of funny, and it plays that way: a string of little portraits of oddballs and their private habits, from a woman with a peculiar idea about toast to another who tints her hair with citrus.

Keith Cleversley produced it with the band, and Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins and Ronald Jones share the writing. Pretty, sing-song melodies and a sweet pedal steel in the chorus breaks keep getting ambushed by bursts of fuzz that somehow stay in tune. It made the Billboard Hot 100 and went top 30 in Australia.

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#StationCountdownof
1994 91 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1994 107
1994 62 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1994 91
1994 101 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994 101
1995 73 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1995 107
1995 69 Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 1995 104

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1994 430 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) 500
1996 474 Q101 Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) 500
1996 465 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996) 498
1999 407 91X 91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999) 500
1999 455 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 496 WFNX WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999) 500
1999 593 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 306 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999) 500
2000 251 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) 500
2001 252 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) 498
2002 251 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2002) 500
2003 275 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2003) 500
2004 171 Q101 Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004) 300
2004 208 107.7 The End The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) 500
2004 298 Y100 Y100 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (July 2004) 300
2005 213 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005) 500
2005 1974 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 601 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2006 171 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006) 499
2007 360 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2007 370 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2007 784 WTMD WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time 897
2008 343 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 319 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 300 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 282 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 264 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 252 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2020 257 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2020) 420
2020 381 DC101 The DC101 Top 500 500
2021 433 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2021 264 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2021) 420
2022 197 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900
2022 371 X96 X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time 500
2022 497 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time 1055
2022 266 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2022) 420
2022 1340 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 603
2023 279 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2023) 420
2023 1156 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 1229
2024 532 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years 1049
2025 191 WFPK WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s 500
2026 1137 WYEP WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time 1180

Charting alongside it in 1994

Best songs of 1994 →
  1. 1Black Hole SunSoundgarden
  2. 2CloserNine Inch Nails
  3. 3Self-EsteemThe Offspring
  4. 4Interstate Love SongStone Temple Pilots
  5. 5Come Out and PlayThe Offspring
  6. 6Basket CaseGreen Day

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