Song · Wilco
“A Shot In The Arm” by Wilco
From the album Summerteeth (1999)
“A Shot In The Arm” by Wilco appears on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2016 and 2025. It was first released in 1999 on the album Summerteeth. Its best result is #173 on the WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,399 indie & aaa song of all time and #102 of the '90s.
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"A Shot in the Arm" sits on Summerteeth, the third Wilco album, which Reprise put out in March 1999, and its credits tell you how that record got made. Jay Bennett is practically a one-man orchestra on it: piano, keyboards, synthesizer, lap steel, even the drums. Jeff Tweedy sings lead and plays acoustic and 12-string guitars plus synth, John Stirratt takes the bass, and Ken Coomer is down for timpani. Bennett, Stirratt and Tweedy share the writing credit, and Jim Scott mixed it.
That's the new Wilco method at work. Rather than cutting songs live as a band with a few overdubs, Tweedy and Bennett built most of Summerteeth's songs in the studio and piled on Pro Tools overdubs, for a record whose words drew on 20th-century literature and Tweedy's troubled marriage.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 424 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2021 | 381 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
| 2022 | 190 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2022 | 433 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 269 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
| 2025 | 173 | WFPK | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s | 500 |
Also listed as: A Shot in the Arm.
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