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“Kiss This” by The Struts
From the album Everybody Wants (2014)
“Kiss This” by The Struts appears on 14 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 2015 and 2023. It was first released in 2014 on the album Everybody Wants. Its best result is #5 on the WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #35 alternative song of 2016, #3,861 alternative song of all time and #336 of the '10s.
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"Kiss This" was the second single from the Struts' debut album Everybody Wants, released on April 7, 2014, by an English glam rock band with no shortage of swagger. It was a slow fuse in America, only taking off there in 2015 and 2016, and it did plenty to widen their audience.
The story behind it is a bruise: singer Luke Spiller found out that the girlfriend he had at the time was seeing a close friend of his behind his back. Spiller had no appetite for wallowing, so the band threw power riffs and a chorus that gets right in your face at it, turning a breakup into a declaration of independence. They borrowed the mood of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil", slipped a hip-hop element into it, and thought of the result as their own rock-minded take on a "Young Hearts Run Free" kind of song. Spiller wrote it with Adam Slack, Rick Parkhouse, George Tizzard and Josh Wilkinson.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2015 | 91 |
| 2015 | 81 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2015 | 99 |
| 2015 | 74 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2015 | 103 |
| 2016 | 19 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2016 | 91 |
| 2016 | 6 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2016 | 99 |
| 2016 | 58 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2016 | 104 |
| 2016 | 14 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2016 | 50 |
| 2016 | 17 | SiriusXM Alt Nation National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Alt Nation's 36 Biggest Alternative Songs of 2016 | 36 |
| 2016 | 5 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2016 | 107 |
| 2016 | 17 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2016 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 86 | 103.3 The Edge | 103.3 The Edge Top 103.3 Songs of the Decade | 103 |
| 2019 | 345 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) | 500 |
| 2020 | 224 | DC101 | The DC101 Top 500 | 500 |
| 2023 | 339 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) | 500 |
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