Song · The Mavis's
“Cry” by The Mavis's
From the album Mushroom Story: The Hits of the Nineties. Volume Two (1998)
“Cry” by The Mavis's appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1998. It was first released in 1998 on the album Mushroom Story: The Hits of the Nineties. Volume Two. Its best result is #61 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #303 alternative song of 1998.
"Cry" hit the shops in January 1998, the second single lifted from Pink Pills, the second album by Australian alternative rock group the Mavis's, coming after "Naughty Boy" and ahead of "Lever". Matt Thomas has said it's about the strain of a long-distance romance with Fiona Horne, the singer of Def FX, and the band ran the vocals through a vocoder. Thomas remembered the night the mix came together as the moment he knew they had something special, and he's called it the band's artistic high point.
It went to 13 in Australia, higher than any other Mavis's single, and the 1998 ARIA Music Awards put it up for Single of the Year and Song of the Year, where it lost to Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" and the Whitlams' "No Aphrodisiac".
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 | 61 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1998 | 100 |
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