Flood (Jars of Clay song)

"Flood"
Artwork for the U.S. Silvertone radio promo. The U.S. Essential radio promo has the band name centered directly above the jar. The song title was moved to just below the band name in the left upper corner. The band name is printed larger and is dark blue instead of black.
Single by Jars of Clay
from the album Jars of Clay
Released	1995
Format	CD
Recorded	1995
Genre	Alternative rock Inspirational
Length	3:31 (Album Version)
Label	Essential/Silvertone
Producer(s)	Adrian Belew
Jars of Clay singles chronology
"Flood" (1995) "Liquid" (1995)
Music sample "Flood"

"Flood" is a song written and performed by Jars of Clay. It is considered to be their breakthrough song due to airplay on contemporary Christian music and alternative rock radio stations, two radio formats which rarely interact with one another. It was released in 1995 on their self-titled debut album. The album remained in the top 60 albums for much of the year and remained in Billboard's Top 200 albums for the entire 52 week (one year) cycle. The album went 'gold' and shortly after attained platinum status. The debut album has now sold well over 2,000,000 copies.

The single was a multi-format crossover hit in the United States, peaking at No. 12 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[1]

The song is played with two different tunings: Standard tuning and (low to high) G-B-G-D-A-E.

Track listing

All songs written by Charlie Lowell, Dan Haseltine, Matt Odmark, & Stephen Mason.

U.S. commercial single

1. "Flood" - 3:31
2. "Sinking" - 3:47

U.S. 2-track radio promo (Silvertone Records)

1. "Flood" (Radio Edit) - 3:12
2. "Flood" (LP Version) - 3:31

U.S. 3-track radio promo (Silvertone Records)

1. "Flood" (Adrian Belew Electric Remix) - 3:30
2. "Flood" (Radio Edit) - 3:13
3. "Flood" (LP Version) - 3:31

U.S. radio promo (Essential Records)

1. "Flood" (Radio Edit) - 3:15
2. "Flood" (Short Edit) - 2:58

U.K. commercial maxi-single

1. "Flood" (Savage Flavor Remix) - 4:24
2. "Flood" - 3:33
3. "Sinking" - 3:48
4. "Blind" (The Fluffy-Sav Smoothed Out Mix) 5:08

Charts

In popular culture

The song plays over the closing credits of the 1998 film Hard Rain and is used in the 2002 film A Walk to Remember. It was used in the ending credits of an episode of "Days of Our Lives" in the late 1990s.. It was the theme song of the A&E reality show, "God or the Girl", a five-part series about four men who are discerning whether or not to enter the seminary that began airing on Easter 2006.

See also

• Genesis flood narrative

References

External links

• MTV Version music video on YouTube
• Original Version music video on YouTube