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“Coming Up Close” by Til Tuesday
From the album Welcome Home (1986)
“Coming Up Close” by Til Tuesday appears on 11 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2026. It was first released in 1986 on the album Welcome Home. Its best result is #668 on the KXT 917 Song Countdown. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,576 alternative song of all time.
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Aimee Mann wrote "Coming Up Close" on the road in 1985, while 'Til Tuesday were warming up crowds for Hall & Oates, and it was one of the first songs she built on an acoustic guitar instead of her bass. You can hear the difference on 1986's Welcome Home: it's a slow-burning ballad, all hush and ache, with Mann's voice climbing out of the arrangement. Rhett Davies produced, with Robert Holmes on guitar, Joey Pesce on piano and synths and Michael Hausman on drums.
The band wanted it out first, but the more immediate "What About Love" got the nod, and "Coming Up Close" followed as the album's second and last single. Mann later reckoned it made people nervous because nothing else on the charts sounded like it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1150 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1152 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1154 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1153 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1138 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1138 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1138 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2007 | 1957 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1944 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1975 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2026 | 668 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
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