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“Something's Always Wrong” by Toad The Wet Sprocket

From the album Dulcinea (1994)

“Something's Always Wrong” by Toad The Wet Sprocket appears on 27 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 1994 and 2022. It was first released in 1994 on the album Dulcinea. Its best result is #38 on the Radio & Records Top 94 Songs of 1994. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #54 alternative song of 1994 and #1,484 alternative song of all time.

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"Something's Always Wrong" comes off Dulcinea, Toad the Wet Sprocket's fourth album, released in 1994, and it's the band's gift for gentle, gnawing melancholy at full strength. Todd Nichols came in with the music and a stray lyric idea, and Glen Phillips flipped it around and built a song on it, pulling together observations about relationships gone quietly off course.

Phillips has said the feeling at its core, the nagging sense that something is off, is the current he fights against in his own struggle with depression. The band plays it with a soft, rueful chime, Nichols and Phillips on guitars and voices, Dean Dinning on bass and harmonies, Randy Guss keeping it steady, and Gavin MacKillop produced, recorded and mixed it. It reached number nine on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and 41 on the Hot 100, and hit 15 in Canada.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1994 102 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1994 107
1994 60 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1994 91
1994 49 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1994 106
1994 95 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994 101
1994 43 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1994 100
1994 38 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 94 Songs of 1994 94
1995 53 Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 1995 104

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 671 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 502 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 1366 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 1366 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1368 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1367 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2003 1353 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1353 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1353 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 295 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2007 1217 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1233 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1242 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2009 289 WYEP WYEP 913 Essential Songs 913
2010 1273 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1326 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1370 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1432 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2021 202 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2022 299 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900

Charting alongside it in 1994

Best songs of 1994 →
  1. 1Black Hole SunSoundgarden
  2. 2CloserNine Inch Nails
  3. 3Self-EsteemThe Offspring
  4. 4Interstate Love SongStone Temple Pilots
  5. 5Come Out and PlayThe Offspring
  6. 6Basket CaseGreen Day

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