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The Reverend Horton Heat

Band Dallas United States Formed 1985 the band

The Reverend Horton Heat formed in 1985 in Dallas, United States. The Reverend Horton Heat has 22 chart appearances on 22 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 1995–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Lie Detector”, which appears on 14 lists with a best position of #866. The station that charted The Reverend Horton Heat most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 14 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.

22appearances

22countdowns

5songs charted

5stations

0#1 finishes

1995–2026years

The Reverend Horton Heat is both the stage name of Jim Heath, a Dallas singer, songwriter and guitarist born in 1959, and the name of the psychobilly trio he leads. They cut their teeth in Dallas' Deep Ellum neighborhood, with Heath on guitar and lead vocals and, from 1989, Jimbo Wallace slapping the upright bass, and one reviewer went so far as to crown Heath the "godfather of modern rockabilly and psychobilly".

The sound is rock and roll with engine grease under its nails and a wicked grin, stirring '50s country, surf, punk, big band swing and rockabilly standards into one hot, twanging stew. It's Martini Time, in 1996, leaned into the lounge-lizard swing of its title track, and Space Heater in 1998 brought "Lie Detector", Heath's guitar flicking out licks like a switchblade while the drums keep up a freight-train clatter. The drum stool has seen plenty of traffic, from Bobby Baranowski and Patrick "Taz" Bentley to Scott "Chernobyl" Churilla, Paul Simmons and Arjuna "RJ" Contreras.

Sub Pop was among the labels along the way, and in 2012 they signed to Victory Records, which released their 12th studio album, Whole New Life, on November 30, 2018.

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

Songs by The Reverend Horton Heat on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Lie Detector	402	14	#866	–	–
2	It's Martini Time	148	5	#69	–	1996
3	Ain't Gonna Happen	59	1	#92	–	2002
4	Never Gonna Stop It	47	1	#70	–	2014
5	One Time for Me	36	1	#641	–	–

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Year-end chart timeline

Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.

96 02 14

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2026	564	It's Martini Time	KXT 917 Song Countdown
2014	70	Never Gonna Stop It	WBER Listener Countdown 2014
2014	1095	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013	1042	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011	989	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010	959	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009	928	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008	911	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007	866	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2005	1852	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	1865	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	1863	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002	92 (tie)	Ain't Gonna Happen	WBER Listener Countdown 2002
2002	1904	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001	326	It's Martini Time	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001)
2001	1919	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	326	It's Martini Time	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000)
2000	1919	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	466	It's Martini Time	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999)
1999	1917	Lie Detector	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1996	69	It's Martini Time	WBER Listener Countdown 1996
1995	641	One Time for Me	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)

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