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“Until She Comes” by The Psychedelic Furs

From the album World Outside (1991)

“Until She Comes” by The Psychedelic Furs appears on 20 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1991 and 2014. It was first released in 1991 on the album World Outside. Its best result is #13 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1991. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #31 alternative song of 1991 and #1,993 alternative song of all time.

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"Until She Comes" opened the book on World Outside, the Psychedelic Furs' seventh album, going out as its first single in June 1991. The whole band wrote it and produced it with Stephen Street, and the 12-inch carried a Hugh Padgham remix.

It sounds sweet and shimmering on the surface, a warm swirl of guitars and a hazy, drifting vocal, but the lyric is a disguised story about drug addiction. Author Dave Thompson called it bittersweet and heard echoes of the band's 1981 single "Pretty in Pink" in it. Alternative radio took to it fast: it sat at No. 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart for two weeks in September 1991.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1991 13 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1991 107
1991 65 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1991 91
1991 17 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1991 105

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1996 489 Q101 Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) 500
1999 1636 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 1636 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1636 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1628 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 227 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 1618 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 322 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 1618 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1616 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1597 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1549 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1541 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1572 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1638 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1615 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1668 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

Charting alongside it in 1991

Best songs of 1991 →
  1. 1Smells Like Teen SpiritNirvana
  2. 2Losing My ReligionR.E.M.
  3. 3UnbelievableEMF
  4. 4Kiss Them for MeSiouxsie and the Banshees
  5. 5RushBig Audio Dynamite
  6. 6Give It AwayRed Hot Chili Peppers

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