They Rage On

"They Rage On"
Single by Dan Seals
from the album Rage On
B-side "Factory Town"[1]
Released February 1989
Genre Country
Length 4:40
Label Capitol
Writer(s) Bob McDill
Dan Seals
Producer Kyle Lehning
Dan Seals singles chronology
"Big Wheels in the Moonlight"
(1988)		 "They Rage On"
(1989)		 "Love on Arrival"
(1990)

"They Rage On" is a single recorded by American country music singer Dan Seals. It is the third and final single from his 1988 album Rage On. It peaked at #5 on the Billboard country charts in 1989, thus breaking his streak of number-one hits. It was his first single to miss the #1 spot since his early-1985 single "My Old Yellow Car", which peaked at #9.

Music video

The music video was directed by Neil Abramson. This video, in particular, played on the song's theme of the irony of small-town values with the depiction of an inter-racial relationship. In it, a white teen-aged boy falls in love with a Chinese girl, angering the boy's friends to the point they vandalize the boy's car; one boy attempts to assault the girl's father by hurling a beer bottle at him (the bottle misses).[2]

Chart positions

Chart (1989) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 5
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 4

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 372. ISBN 0-89820-177-2. 
  2. ^ Associated Press, Dan Seals obituary, March 26, 2009. [1] Accessed via the Knoxville News Sentinel on March 29, 2009.
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