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“Long Loud Hours” by Urthboy featuring Bertie Blackman
From the album The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat (2016) Featuring Bertie Blackman
“Long Loud Hours” by Urthboy featuring Bertie Blackman appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2015. It was first released in 2016 on the album The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat. Its best result is #33 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2015. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #218 alternative song of 2015.
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Urthboy, the name Australian rapper Tim Levinson records under, built the beat for "Long Loud Hours" on a plane between cities and then went hunting for something to say over it. A week in Canberra's National Film & Sound Archives, digging through Australian history, first pointed him toward a song about Molly Meldrum's music show Countdown, until he found a stranger story: John Killick's escape from Silverwater Prison in Sydney, with help from his girlfriend Lucy Dudko, a librarian with no criminal record who took over a helicopter at gunpoint to get him out.
Bertie Blackman features, Hermitude and Pip Norman produced, and Tony Espie mixed. It was the first Urthboy single in three years to come with a video, it made the ARIA charts, and it's on his album The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2015 | 100 |
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