Song · Tim Scott
“Swear” by Tim Scott
“Swear” by Tim Scott appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1983 and 2003. Its best result is #22 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #50 alternative song of 1983 and #6,802 alternative song of all time.
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Tim Scott McConnell, credited here as plain Tim Scott, put "Swear" out on Sire Records, a pop song that came together, along with the rest of his songs from that stretch, over a couple of weeks on a little Casio keyboard. Sire heard the results and offered him a deal.
He has been rueful about it ever since, writing it off as the record of a young, confused kid chasing the wrong kind of music, though he credits Richard Gottehrer with taking him under his wing. The real curio is the video: a campy, tongue-in-cheek hippie black mass staged inside a church, played as a send-up of the hippie horror flicks of the late '60s and early '70s.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 22 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983 | 107 |
| 1983 | 85 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1983 | 91 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 492 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988) | 496 |
| 2003 | 1777 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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