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“Obscurity Knocks” by The Trash Can Sinatras
From the EP Obscurity Knocks E.P. (1990)
“Obscurity Knocks” by The Trash Can Sinatras appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1990 and 1991. It was first released in 1990 on the EP Obscurity Knocks E.P.. Its best result is #71 on the CFNY Top 91 Songs of 1991. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #186 alternative song of 1990 and #5,762 alternative song of all time.
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The Trash Can Sinatras released "Obscurity Knocks" in 1990 on Go! Discs as an EP, and as a promotional single in America, lifting it from Cake, the Scottish band's debut album, with Roger Béchirian producing. At home it only scraped to 86 on the UK chart, but it did better across the Atlantic, climbing in 1991 to No. 12 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.
Record Mirror's writers warmed to it. Kevin Murphy placed the band in Scotland's long line of guitar-pop makers, name-checking Aztec Camera, and reckoned they were too smart to be written off as twee jangle, while Tim Southwell compared it to heavy artillery aimed squarely at the Top 40, praising its jangling guitars, snappy beat, intriguing lyrics and love-torn singing.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 72 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1990 | 107 |
| 1991 | 71 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON | CFNY Top 91 Songs of 1991 | 91 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 620 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) | 1002 |
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