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“Is It Too Late?” by World Party

From the album Goodbye Jumbo (1990)

“Is It Too Late?” by World Party appears on 15 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2016. It was first released in 1990 on the album Goodbye Jumbo. Its best result is #460 on the WYEP 913 Countdown 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,520 alternative song of all time.

15countdowns

2stations

#460best position

0#1 finishes

0top 10 finishes

1999–2016years charted

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Karl Wallinger wrote "Is It Too Late?" on his own, words and music, and it turns up on Goodbye Jumbo, the second album from the Welsh-British alternative rock outfit World Party, released on Ensign in 1990. That record took its sweet time. Wallinger spent his Chrysalis advance on a 24-track machine, set it up in a rented space that cost him a few hundred pounds a month, and over three years filled 62 reels of tape with something like 70 hours of music, including note-perfect re-creations of Beatles and Beach Boys songs.

When he kept sailing past the label's deadlines, the company suggested an engineer to hurry things along, and in came Jon Blaney, whose résumé already included Lovesexy and a Keith Richards album.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

#1,520 of all time

Indie & Adult Alternative

#5,101 of all time

All Rock Formats

#2,615 of all time

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1999	1658	CD101	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	2000
2000	1658	CD101	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)	2001
2001	1658	CD101	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)	2002
2002	1650	CD101	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)	2003
2003	1637	CD101	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)	2004
2004	1637	CD101	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)	2005
2005	1636	CD101	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)	1994
2007	572	CD101	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)	2008
2008	559	CD101	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)	2009
2009	570	CD101	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)	2010
2010	590	CD101	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)	2011
2011	611	CD101	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)	2011
2013	640	CD101	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)	2012
2014	666	CD101	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)	2013
2016	460	WYEP	WYEP 913 Countdown 2016	913

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