Songoftheday 10/20/19 - Oh now feel it comin' back again like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind....
from the album Throwing Copper (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #12 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40 of the Hot 100 Airplay chart: 25
Today's song of the day comes from the alternative hard rock band from Central Pennsylvania, Live. Their breakthrough sophomore Throwing Copper had landed them a hit on the pop Hot 100 that almost reached the top-40 in "Selling The Drama", then another song that did make the airplay top-40 but was ineligible to chart because it wasn't sold commercially as a single, "I Alone". Their third track promoted to radio also wasn't released physically to the public, causing fans to have to buy the album, a tactic that will grow exponentially through the bottom half of the decade. "Lightning Crashes", written by the band who produced it with Jerry Harrison (of the Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club), ended up being their most successful hit on the radio nonetheless.
Although "Lightning Crashes" was not able to chart on the "official" pop Hot 100 in Billboard magazine, the song climbed all the way to almost the top ten on the airplay component of the chart in May of 1995. The song also was a massive hit on rock radio, spending ten weeks at #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart, and nine weeks at the top of the Modern Rock list. Internationally, the single went to #3 in Canada and #4 in New Zealand, and #8 in Iceland, and reached the top-40 in Australia (#13) and the UK (#33).
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Here's the band doing an acoustic take on MTV's Unplugged in 1995...
and live at Woodstock in 1999...
Here they are with guest Adam Duritz of Counting Crows in 2000...
and finally, from their concert in 2009 in Amsterdam...
Up tomorrow: New Jersey jam band gets duped again.
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