Song · The War On Drugs
“Pain” by The War On Drugs
From the album A Deeper Understanding (2017)
“Pain” by The War On Drugs appears on 18 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 2017 and 2026. It was first released in 2017 on the album A Deeper Understanding. Its best result is #4 on the WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2017.
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"Pain" comes from A Deeper Understanding, the War On Drugs' 2017 album, and it's Adam Granduciel's world top to bottom: he wrote it, produced it, sang it and played a small orchestra's worth of parts himself, from acoustic and electric guitar to piano, organ, synthesizer, celesta and vibraphone. The band fills in the rest, with Charlie Hall on drums, Dave Hartley on bass, Robbie Bennett on piano, Anthony LaMarca on electric guitar and Jon Natchez on baritone saxophone, and Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe add backing vocals. Shawn Everett mixed. The result is a slow, rolling ache of a song, stacked layer on layer like the view through a hazy windshield.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
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Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2017 | 50 |
| 2017 | 10 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 100 Songs of 2017 | 90 |
| 2017 | 24 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2017 | 89 |
| 2017 | 74 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2017 | 200 |
| 2017 | 8 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2017 | 90 |
| 2017 | 46 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2017 | 104 |
| 2017 | 7 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2017 | 89 |
| 2018 | 41 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018 | 91 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 37 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
| 2019 | 245 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 245 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2022 | 854 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2022 | 1195 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2024 | 11 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 122 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 153 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2026 | 143 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
| 2026 | 89 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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