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The Toll

Band United States

The Toll formed in the United States. The Toll has 21 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1999–2005. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “One Last Wish”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #270. The station that charted The Toll most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 21 appearances.

21appearances
7countdowns
3songs charted
1stations
0#1 finishes
1999–2005years

Columbus, Ohio's the Toll always aimed high: singer Brad Circone, guitarist Rick Silk, bassist Greg Bartram and drummer Brett Mayo, who came up in the mid-'80s with a live show fierce enough that Geffen signed them off the back of a single gig. Their calling card was the spoken narrative, Circone telling stories over the band's slow-building roar instead of just singing a chorus at you.

The Price of Progression, their 1988 debut, was produced by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero, the pair who had engineered Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, and its first single, "Jonathan Toledo", ran past ten minutes. MTV actually played it, 120 Minutes included, and for a while it stood as the longest video on the channel that wasn't by Michael Jackson. It still didn't break them, and "Soldier's Room" fared no better, though "Stand in Winter" has stuck around.

Geffen turned down their concept album, The Parable of Pariah, so some of its songs were cut again for Sticks and Stones and Broken Bones in 1991, home to "One Last Wish" and "Standing on the Ledge". The label barely lifted a finger to promote it, dropped the band, and the Toll split soon after. Those original Parable demos remain a treasure for the faithful.

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

Songs by The Toll on radio countdowns

#SongStrengthListsBest#1sPeak year
1 One Last Wish
605		 7 #270 – –
2 Standing On The Ledge
496		 7 #584 – –
3 Stand In Winter
318		 7 #1075 – –

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Every countdown appearance

Year#SongCountdown
2005 275 One Last Wish CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005 585 Standing On The Ledge CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005 1075 Stand In Winter CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004 272 One Last Wish CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004 585 Standing On The Ledge CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004 1075 Stand In Winter CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003 272 One Last Wish CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003 585 Standing On The Ledge CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003 1075 Stand In Winter CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002 272 One Last Wish CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002 585 Standing On The Ledge CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002 1090 Stand In Winter CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001 272 One Last Wish CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001 585 Standing On The Ledge CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001 1091 Stand In Winter CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000 270 One Last Wish CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000 584 Standing On The Ledge CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000 1124 Stand In Winter CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999 270 One Last Wish CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 584 Standing On The Ledge CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 1122 Stand In Winter CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)

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