Fall Down (Toad the Wet Sprocket song)

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"Fall Down"
Fall Down single.jpg
Single by Toad the Wet Sprocket
from the album Dulcinea
B-side "All Right"
ReleasedApril 1994 (1994-04)
Genre Alternative rock [1] [2] [3]
Length3:24
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Todd Nichols, Glen Phillips
Producer(s) Gavin MacKillop
Toad the Wet Sprocket singles chronology
"I Will Not Take These Things for Granted"
(1993)
"Fall Down"
(1994)
"Something's Always Wrong"
(1994)

"Fall Down" is a song by alternative rock band Toad the Wet Sprocket from their fourth studio album, Dulcinea (1994). "Fall Down" was co-written by Glen Phillips and Todd Nichols. Released to US radio in April 1994, the song topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100. In Canada, the song peaked at number 10 and ended 1994 as the country's 76th-most-successful single. The music video for the song was directed by Samuel Bayer. In 2017, Consequence magazine ranked the song number 245 (out of 354) on their list of "Every Alternative Rock No. 1 Hit from Worst to Best". [1]

Contents

Background

Singer Glen Phillips said,

I think it was written before the Fear album came out. That was an early one, and loosely based on a woman - a girl at the time - in high school, who was rebelling against and living out people's worst expectations of her. I think when you're misunderstood there's an urge sometimes to self-destruct as a form of rebellion. So, watching that happen and thinking about it. [4]

Chart performance

"Fall Down" reached number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in June 1994 and remained there for six weeks before being supplanted by the Offspring's "Come Out and Play" in July. It also reached the top five of the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, peaking at number five, and was a top-40 Billboard Hot 100 hit, reaching number 33.

Track listings

US CD, 7-inch, and cassette single [5] [6] [7]

  1. "Fall Down" – 3:23
  2. "All Right" – 5:46

UK CD single [8]

  1. "Fall Down" – 3:23
  2. "One Little Girl" – 3:23
  3. "Come Back Down" – 3:16
  4. "Nightingale Song" (live) – 2:18

European CD single [9]

  1. "Fall Down" – 3:23
  2. "One Little Girl" – 3:23

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United StatesApril 1994 Columbia [20]
June 1994 Top 40 radio
United KingdomOctober 3, 1994
  • CD
  • cassette
[21]

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