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“Run For Cover” by The Killers
From the album Wonderful Wonderful (2017)
“Run For Cover” by The Killers appears on 10 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2017 and 2020. It was first released in 2017 on the album Wonderful Wonderful. Its best result is #3 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #23 alternative song of 2018 and #453 of the '10s.
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"Run for Cover" from the Killers' fifth album, Wonderful Wonderful, was a song nearly a decade in the making. Brandon Flowers first wrote it with producer Stuart Price for 2008's Day & Age but could not finish the second verse; it only came together after he met Australian musician Alex Cameron in Las Vegas and the two kept at it until the verse was done.
Ronnie Vannucci has said the early version was slower, sweeter and busier. The finished take, produced by Jacknife Lee, who also plays keyboards and guitar, is a straight-ahead sprint with Flowers on vocals and keys, Mark Stoermer on bass and Vannucci on drums, and it carries the first openly political references in a Killers song. It went out as a promotional single in 2017 before becoming the album's second single at US alternative radio.
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 | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 65 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2017 | 99 |
| 2017 | 50 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2017 | 103 |
| 2017 | 55 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2017 | 88 |
| 2018 | 3 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018 | 91 |
| 2018 | 18 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2018 | 99 |
| 2018 | 24 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2018 | 50 |
| 2018 | 47 | ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA | Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2018 | 51 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 850 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 850 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2020 | 100 | X96 | X96's Top 100 Songs of the Last Decade | 100 |
Also listed as: Run for Cover.
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