Artist · chart history
The Stills
Band Montréal Canada Active 2000–2011 Montreal indie rock band
The Stills formed in 2000 in Montréal, Canada and was active until 2011. The Stills has 23 chart appearances on 21 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2014. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Still In Love Song”, which appears on 15 lists with a best position of #14. The station that charted The Stills most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.
The Stills came out of Montreal in 2000, four friends who had known each other since they were 12 and had already cycled through bands like Chinatown, Amentum and the Undercovers. Tim Fletcher sang and played guitar, Greg Paquet played guitar, Olivier Corbeil was on bass and Dave Hamelin on drums, and together they made guitar records that shimmer and ache in equal measure.
Gus Van Go produced both the EP Rememberese, released by Vice in June 2003, and the debut album that followed that October, Logic Will Break Your Heart, with Liam O'Neil adding keyboards to several tracks. Its singles, "Lola Stars and Stripes", "Changes Are No Good" and "Still in Love Song", were moody, jangling slow-burners that sound like a rainy night in a city you're about to leave, and "Love and Death" brooded right alongside them. Critics loved it and reached for Interpol and Echo & the Bunnymen by way of comparison, hearing dark post-punk atmosphere with an art-rock strut.
Paquet quit in 2005 to go back and complete a university degree, and the band reshuffled: Hamelin moved out from behind the kit to play guitar and split the lead vocals with Fletcher. Oceans Will Rise arrived in 2008 with "Being Here" and "I'm with You", Oliver Crowe and Colin Brooks are counted among the members too, and Arts & Crafts was part of their story before they called it a day in 2011.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Stills on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Still In Love Song | 15 | #14 | – | 2004 | |
| 2 | Being Here | 2 | #43 | – | 2008 | |
| 3 | Lola Stars And Stripes | 2 | #36 | – | 2004 | |
| 4 | Snow In California | 1 | #46 | – | 2008 | |
| 5 | I'm with You | 2 | #61 | – | 2009 | |
| 6 | Love and Death | 1 | #82 | – | 2005 |
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.
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