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“Got You (Where I Want You)” by The Flys

From the album Holiday Man (1998)

“Got You (Where I Want You)” by The Flys appears on 28 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 1998 and 2026. It was first released in 1998 on the album Holiday Man. Its best result is #20 on the Radio & Records Top 104 Songs of 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #43 alternative song of 1998, #2,491 alternative song of all time and #178 of the '90s.

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#20best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1998–2026years charted

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"Got You (Where I Want You)" is the Flys' calling card, the lead single from their 1998 debut Holiday Man and from the Disturbing Behavior soundtrack, both on Trauma Records. The band wrote it together, singer Adam Paskowitz supplied the words, and Chris Goss produced.

By Paskowitz's own account it's about a guy making increasingly desperate plays for women in bars, and the song has exactly that kind of sweaty, last-call swagger: a sly, loping groove, a big dumb-smart chorus and a hook that won't leave. It climbed into the top five on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart in December 1998 and remains the band's biggest song. It later turned up in the film Sex Drive, and the Flys cut a fresh version of it in 2008.

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
1998 59 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1998 107
1998 44 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1998 106
1998 61 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 101
1998 68 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1998 100
1998 45 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998 102
1998 53 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 1998 107
1998 34 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 1998 103
1998 29 DC101 Washington, D.C. DC101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 101
1998 34 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 103 Songs of 1998 102
1999 79 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999 106
1999 51 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1999 101
1999 56 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92 Songs of 1999 92
1999 22 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999 99
1999 75 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 1999 103
1999 20 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 104 Songs of 1999 104

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 461 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 769 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 385 WFNX WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999) 500
1999 467 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
2001 184 WBRU WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001) 500
2004 390 107.7 The End The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) 500
2005 439 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2019 433 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) 500
2020 352 DC101 The DC101 Top 500 500
2021 600 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2022 381 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498
2023 574 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time 909
2026 436 101X 101X 500 (2026) 500

Also listed as: Got You Where I Want You; (Got You) Where I Want You.

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