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“Take It Up” by World Party
From the album Goodbye Jumbo (1990)
“Take It Up” by World Party appears on 14 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1999 and 2014. It was first released in 1990 on the album Goodbye Jumbo. Its best result is #624 on the CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,556 alternative song of all time.
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"Take It Up" is all Karl Wallinger, words and music, and it comes from Goodbye Jumbo, the second World Party album, released in 1990. The record behind it was a long, obsessive build. Wallinger spent his record-company advance on a 24-track machine, parked it in a rented room, and by his own reckoning piled up 62 reels of tape, something like 70 hours of music, over three years, including painstaking note-for-note re-creations of Beatles and Beach Boys songs.
The deadlines kept sliding past, so the label brought in engineer Jon Blaney, whose résumé included Lovesexy and a Keith Richards album, to get things moving. What came out of all that tinkering drew mostly warm reviews, and its lead single, "Way Down Now", held number one on Billboard's alternative chart for five weeks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1610 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1610 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1610 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1602 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1598 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1598 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1597 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2007 | 659 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 624 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 647 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 664 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 687 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 715 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 752 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
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