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“Mean Street” by Van Halen

From the album Fair Warning (1981)

“Mean Street” by Van Halen appears on 22 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 1990 and 2025. It was first released in 1981 on the album Fair Warning. Its best result is #304 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990).

22countdowns
9stations
#304best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1990–2025years charted

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Mean Street (2015 Remaster)

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"Mean Street" comes off Van Halen's 1981 album Fair Warning, and it's a four-way songwriting credit: David Lee Roth, Edward Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and Michael Anthony. Ted Templeman produced it, with Donn Landee engineering.

It's the whole band at full strength, Roth out front, Edward on guitar, Alex on drums and Anthony on bass, and it trades the party-hearty grin for something meaner and more street-level, just as the title promises. Rock countdowns were still making room for it well into the 2020s.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

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All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1990 304 Z-Rock Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) 1000
1994 770 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) 1000
1995 637 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) 1000
1996 730 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) 1000
1997 319 102.3 WBAB WBAB Top 1,023 Rock and Roll Songs of All Time (1997) 1023
1998 850 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) 1000
1999 926 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) 998
2002 359 KISW KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) 999
2010 490 97.9 The Loop The Loop USO Rock 'N' Roll 500 (2010) 500
2013 558 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) 1000
2014 879 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) 1000
2015 561 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) 1007
2016 596 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 1007
2017 534 97.9 The Loop 97.9 The Loop Top 540 Countdown (2017) 540
2019 323 102.5 KZOK KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 1025
2020 319 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) 1025
2021 620 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) 1043
2022 352 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) 1025
2022 377 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022) 500
2023 308 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s 850
2024 610 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) 1043
2025 912 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) 1043

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