Robbed hit of the week 7/29/19 - "Something's Always Wrong" from Toad The Wet Sprocket...

"Something's Always Wrong" - Toad The Wet Sprocket
from the album Dulcinea (1994)
Billboard's Hot 100 peak: #41

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the alternative rock band Toad The Wet Sprocket, whose lead single from their fourth studio album Dulcinea, "Fall Down", had topped the alternative rock radio chart for six weeks, as well as landed the band into the top-40 in the summer of 1994. The group's follow-up single would be the pensive jangle-pop of "Something Always Wrong". Written by the band's lead singer Glen Phllips and guitarist Todd Nichols, the unsure anthem again found a home on mainstream radio...

While "Something's Always Wrong" climbed all the way to #9 on Billboard magazine's Modern Rock chart, and #22 on the Mainstream Rock list, the single stalled right under the top-40 at #41in November of 1994. In Canada, the song did much better, peaking at #15.

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Here's the band performing live in 1994...

And on Letterman promoting the single...

Live in the studio of a Philadelphia radio station in 2008...