Songoftheday 5/30/19 - She said "I'm fine, I'm okay" cover up your trembling hands, there's indecision when you know you ain't got nothing left...

"Fall Down" - Toad The Wet Sprocket
from the album Dulcinea (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #33 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 4

Today's song of the day comes from the alternative rock band Toad The Wet Sprocket, whose third album fear spun off two top-20 pop hits with "All I Want" and "Walk On The Ocean". In 1994, the band returned with their follow-up record Dulcinea. The lead single from the set would be the harder-edged "Fall Down". Written by lead singer Glen Phillips and guitarist Todd Nichols, the track also appeared in the Wesley Snipes movie Drop Zone...

"Fall Down" became Toad the Wet Sprocket's third top-40 pop hit (and final physical single to reach there) in July of 1994. But the song was a much bigger success on rock radio, spending six weeks on top of the Modern Rock radio chart, and peaking at #5 on the Mainstream Rock format list. Internationally, the single cracked the top ten in Canada at #10, and was a minor hit in the UK at #79. The second single from Dulcinea, "Something's Always Wrong", just missed the pop Top-40 at #41 (it'll be a future "robbed hit"), while scaling to #9 on the Modern Rock chart and #22 on the Mainstream Rock tally.

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Here's the band appearing live on Letterman to promote the album...

And in a TV concert that same year..

Fast foward to 2012 for a gig in San Francisco (still with the same lineup)...

And lastly, at the Borgata in Atlantic City in 2014...

Up romorrow: Fellow jangle-rockers are waiting to wilt, perhaps.