Song · Veruca Salt
“Number One Blind” by Veruca Salt
From the album American Thighs (1994)
“Number One Blind” by Veruca Salt appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1995 and 1999. It was first released in 1994 on the album American Thighs. Its best result is #78 on The Buzz Top 103 Alternative Songs of '95. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #276 alternative song of 1995 and #6,713 alternative song of all time.
"Number One Blind" was the single Veruca Salt sent out after "Seether", a song that had already turned up on their 1994 album American Thighs on Minty Fresh. Nina Gordon and Jim Shapiro wrote it, Brad Wood recorded and mixed it, and John McEntire and Casey Rice chipped in extra engineering. It's sugar and sandpaper, sweet and scuffed at once, and the chorus even name-checks Levolor, the window-blind maker.
The video, directed by Steve Hanft, didn't go the way the band wanted: they were so unhappy with it that they pulled it from MTV rotation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 78 | 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL | The Buzz Top 103 Alternative Songs of '95 | 103 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 853 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
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