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“Side” by Travis
“Side” by Travis appears on 9 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2001 and 2022. Its best result is #19 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #110 alternative song of 2001 and #7,707 alternative song of all time.
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"Side" was the second single Travis pulled from The Invisible Band, their third album, in 2001, and it started out as something stranger. Fran Healy began it by writing a rap and a riff to hold it up, and the rap was later scrapped. He finished the words in February 2000, and they make a gentle case for cosmic equality: nobody gets a grander life than anybody else, because we're all on the same side of it. Nigel Godrich produced.
America heard it first, as a radio single in August 2001, and Independiente issued it in Britain a month later as the follow-up to "Sing". Reviews were mixed, but it climbed to 14 at home, and the video had the Scots abducted by aliens the moment the song ended.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 65 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2001 | 107 |
| 2001 | 75 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 2001 | 107 |
| 2001 | 69 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2001 | 89 |
| 2001 | 58 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 | 101 |
| 2001 | 19 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2001 | 191 |
| 2001 | 98 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2001 | 103 |
| 2002 | 96 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2002 | 101 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 1997 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2022 | 646 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
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