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“She Bangs the Drums” by The Stone Roses
From the album The Stone Roses (1989)
“She Bangs the Drums” by The Stone Roses appears on 12 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 1989 and 2023. It was first released in 1989 on the album The Stone Roses. Its best result is #7 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1989. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #36 alternative song of 1989, #2,876 alternative song of all time and #279 of the '80s.
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"She Bangs the Drums" was the second single the Stone Roses lifted off their self-titled 1989 debut for Silvertone, and it sounds like pure springtime: John Squire's guitar chiming and cascading, Gary Mounfield's bass running melodic rings around the beat, Reni drumming and chipping in backing vocals, and Ian Brown floating over the top. Brown wrote the words for the verses and Squire the chorus, and John Leckie produced, with Paul Schroeder engineering.
The single wasn't quite the album track: it dropped the hi-hat intro, beefed up the guitars and reshuffled the backing vocals, and that's the mix radio still reaches for. It gave them their first Top 40 hit in Britain, at 36, and NME later put it at 12 on its list of the greatest indie anthems.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 104 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1989 | 107 |
| 1989 | 37 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1989 | 105 |
| 1989 | 7 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1989 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 51 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1990) | 100 |
| 1991 | 128 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) | 1002 |
| 1991 | 81 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1991) | 100 |
| 1994 | 194 | Live 105 | Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994) | 500 |
| 2003 | 1549 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2005 | 473 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005) | 500 |
| 2020 | 1422 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2021 | 359 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s | 909 |
| 2023 | 540 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s | 850 |
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