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“The Return of Pan” by The Waterboys
From the album Dream Harder (1993)
“The Return of Pan” by The Waterboys appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2002 and 2003. It was first released in 1993 on the album Dream Harder. Its best result is #1730 on the Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,678 alternative song of all time.
Mike Scott still had the old Greek god on his mind in 1993. "The Return of Pan" was the first single from Dream Harder, the sixth Waterboys album, out on Geffen in May, and it's his second ode to Pan, following "The Pan Within" from This Is the Sea back in 1985. The family resemblance is deliberate: Scott told NME that year the new song rides the very same chords, which to him simply spell Pan.
Scott wrote it alone and produced it with Bill Price, and the message is less myth than dare: everybody carries a bit of Pan, he argued, and the point is to dig it out, all that wildness, freedom and abandon of the natural world, the flat opposite of modern city living. Britain sent it to number 24, and it reached 10 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 1730 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 1977 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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