Song · Tim Finn
“Persuasion” by Tim Finn
From the album Before & After (1993)
“Persuasion” by Tim Finn appears on 7 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1999 and 2005. It was first released in 1993 on the album Before & After. Its best result is #741 on the CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,072 alternative song of all time.
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"Persuasion" was the song Tim Finn sent out first from Before & After, his fourth solo album, in 1993, and it arrived with an unusual pedigree. It began life with no words at all: Richard Thompson and Peter Filleul wrote it as an instrumental for the film Sweet Talker, and Finn, a fellow Capitol Records artist, gave it lyrics. The melody is stately and unhurried, and Finn sings it with a grown-up warmth that suits it.
It went to number six in New Zealand and charted in Australia, Germany and the UK. Thompson liked Finn's words so much he made the song part of his own shows: it turns up on his live albums Celtschmerz and Live From Austin, TX, in a studio take with his son Teddy Thompson on the Action Packed retrospective, and as a solo acoustic reading on Acoustic Classics.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 994 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 741 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 741 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 741 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 741 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 741 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 741 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
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