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''. "Low", a

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, reached number 64 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in May 1994. The song's biggest success was on the rock charts, reaching number three on the ''Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks chart in November 1993 and number five on the ''Billboard'' Album Rock Tracks chart in March 1994. The music video, directed by Carlos Grasso, portrays Lowery badly losing a boxing match with actress/comedian Sandra Bernhard. Lead singer David Lowery has said that the band's label made him write a letter to radio stations denying that the song was about drugs, claiming that the repeated phrase "being stoned" was really "being stone." Lowery paraphrased a label executive as telling him, “I don’t believe you and neither will anyone else, but there needs to be deniability and this is what we’re gonna say.” The song was featured in the film ''

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'' and its accompanying soundtrack in addition to '' The Wolverine'' and an episode of ''

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''. B-side track "Whole Lotta Trouble" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1995 film ''

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''. In 2013, Lowery posted an essay on his Trichordist site focused on "Low" in the era of streaming music. The headline was "My Song Got Played on Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89, Less Than What I Make From a Single T-Shirt Sale!" The post went viral and continues to be a reference point in the debate over the economics of streaming music.

Track listing

UK CD single #"Low" – 4:36 #"I Ride My Bike" – 6:32 #"Sunday Train" – 3:42 #"Whole Lotta Trouble" – 2:26 US CD single #"Low" – 4:35 #"Sunday Train" – 3:42 #"Whole Lotta Trouble" – 2:26 #"I See The Light" – 5:13 #"Steve's Hornpipe" – 2:13

Charts

Cover versions

In 2017,

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and Cypress Grove covered the song on their album ''Under the Covers''.

References

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