Song · Toad The Wet Sprocket
“Hold Her Down” by Toad The Wet Sprocket
From the album Fear (1991)
“Hold Her Down” by Toad The Wet Sprocket appears on 9 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1992 and 2002. It was first released in 1991 on the album Fear. Its best result is #87 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1992. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #245 alternative song of 1992 and #2,510 alternative song of all time.
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"Hold Her Down" comes from Fear, the album Toad the Wet Sprocket released in August 1991, with words by Glen Phillips and music he worked out with Todd Nichols and the rest of the band. Gavin MacKillop produced, recorded and mixed it, so the whole thing passed through one pair of hands, and it shows in how clean and uncluttered it sounds: no studio gimmicks, just a band leaning hard into a tense, restless tune and letting the words carry the weight.
Countdowns kept it around for about a decade after it came out.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 87 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1992 | 105 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 274 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) | 500 |
| 1996 | 323 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996) | 498 |
| 1999 | 644 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 1999 | 291 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999) | 500 |
| 2000 | 325 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) | 500 |
| 2001 | 325 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) | 498 |
| 2002 | 347 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2002) | 500 |
| 2002 | 871 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
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