Song · Wilco
“Passenger Side” by Wilco
From the album A.M. (1995)
“Passenger Side” by Wilco appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2010 and 2023. It was first released in 1995 on the album A.M.. Its best result is #122 on The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s.
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"Passenger Side" rides on A.M., Wilco's debut, which landed in March 1995 on Sire and Reprise only months after Uncle Tupelo fell apart, with everyone already keeping score against Jay Farrar's new band, Son Volt. Jeff Tweedy wrote it and sings it over his own acoustic guitar, with Max Johnston adding fiddle and mandolin, John Stirratt on bass, Ken Coomer on drums and Brian Henneman of The Bottle Rockets sitting in on guitar. Richard Dodd mixed it.
It's alt-country the way the band would never quite play it again: A.M. was their last record cut purely in that mode, and the only one with Henneman on lead guitar. The album got polite reviews and slow sales, and the band later wrote it off as a failure, but this song has kept turning up on the radio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 193 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) | 885 |
| 2022 | 122 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2023 | 799 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
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