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“Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” by The Pogues

Released 1988

“Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” by The Pogues appears on 24 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1989 and 2021. It was first released in 1988. Its best result is #85 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1989. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #152 alternative song of 1989 and #1,109 alternative song of all time.

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#85best position
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Shane MacGowan wrote "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" alone, words and music, and the folk-punk Pogues released it as a single in 1988 with Steve Lillywhite producing, following "Poguetry in Motion". At home it peaked at 43, a whisker short of the UK Top 40, but it cracked America instead, becoming the first Pogues single to register there at all and climbing to 17 on the Modern Rock chart.

The video is a romp through '60s pop television, modelled on Ready Steady Go! and Top of the Pops and running from the innocence of the decade's early years to the psychedelia of its end. In September 1990 an EP took the song's name and gathered some of the band's most rock-minded material, including a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women".

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Indie & Adult Alternative

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1989 85 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1989 107
1989 88 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1989 105

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1990 221 Live 105 Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1990) 299
1991 930 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) 1002
1994 447 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) 500
1996 458 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996) 498
1999 459 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999) 500
1999 807 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
1999 143 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) 1002
2000 477 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) 500
2000 858 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 860 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 860 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2003 858 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 858 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 856 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1290 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1230 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1222 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1110 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1057 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1104 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1088 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2021 546 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s 909

Also listed as: Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah.

Charting alongside it in 1989

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  2. 2StandR.E.M.
  3. 3Here Comes Your ManThe Pixies
  4. 4She Drives Me CrazyFine Young Cannibals
  5. 5Love ShackThe B-52's
  6. 6Personal JesusDepeche Mode

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