Billboard #1 Modern Rock Tracks 2014

"I Wanna Get Better" grew on me just enough throughout the year that I'll vote for it.

Bleachers >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Vance Joy > Arctic Monkeys > Foo Fighters >>> Cage The Elephant >> Fitz & the Tantrums > Black Keys > Big Data > Kongos >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Milky Chance

I went with "Dangerous." Love that backbeat after each line in the chorus.

i have an aversion to the uncanny valley similarity between "Dangerous" and NIN's "Only"

Wow.. now that you say that I can't unhear it.

"I Wanna Get Better" easily, followed by "Come a Little Closer"

I can't find anything appealing about that Milky Chance song whatsoever, have no idea how that managed to spend 10 weeks atop the chart

"Dangerous" is also alright but I think I prefer the two follow-up Joywave solo singles that have charted since then.

there was a point a few months ago where the top 3 on the chart was Vance Joy/Milky Chance/Big Data and i was like "i have no idea what these are, are these even the song titles or the band names"

i wasn't aware that 'stolen dance' had made an english-speaking world breakthrough, when i was in paris in may hearing it several times a day was agony

Throw all these in an oil drum and set them aflame.

I have heard exactly none of these, not sure how to feel about that.

Heartbreaking list, gonna check out the one or two I haven't heard before voting but leaning towards "stolen dance" by milky chance for most reminding me of the late 90s (are we sure the guy ain't g love wearing a wig) and for having a title that rhymes with the artists name

Love the beat of dangerous (never made the Only connection but otm) but I always find myself singing my own hooks over it in the car rather than the ones provided

Heartbreaking list, gonna check out the one or two I haven't heard before voting but leaning towards "stolen dance" by milky chance for most reminding me of the late 90s (are we sure the guy ain't g love wearing a wig) and for having a title that rhymes with the artists name

― da croupier, Thursday, January 1, 2015 12:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha chance/dance has had me wanting to start a thread about song titles that rhyme with the artist's name for the last few months but i can't think of any other examples besides Steve Perry's "Oh Sherry"

arctic monkeys are a great example of how if you can do one thing well (in their case write minimalist guitar-bass-drums songs about being annoyed with your sex partners) just KEEP DOING IT. people will turn away out of boredom for a minute, but will eventually see you as a reliable source of that thing. i.e. wes anderson.

For completion, here are the #2 hits:

Lorde - Team
Young the Giant - It's About Time
Bastille - Bad Blood
Alt-J - Left Hand Free
Hozier - Take Me to Church

And #3 hits:

Phantogram - Fall in Love
Dirty Heads - My Sweet Summer

it's funny because Arctic Monkeys stayed pretty big in the UK this whole time, but on U.S. rock radio it was like, their first single charted okay, then 7 years of nothing, then suddenly they have one of the longest-running alt-rock radio hits of all time.

actually i should just go ahead and link this instead of paraphrasing myself so much:
http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-20-best-rockalternative-radio-hits.html

arctic never stopped having #1 debuts in the uk but did see a commercial uptick with the 5th album, 2xplat rather than 1

it's like if "Heathen Chemistry is just as good as the early records, they can be big in the US again!" NME hype actually came true

tbf they did start naming singles coherent things like "r u mine?" "do i wanna know?" and "how come you only call me when you're high?" rather than "the hellcat spangled shalala," "my propeller" and "black treacle"

it's like they finally accepted their purpose on earth was to neg models

lol

More Songs About Sexting And Groove

no one likes any of these songs.

i love the Bleachers song

"Dangerous" stands out here to me. I hadn't heard any of these before I opened this thread though. I'd listen to a dub version of the Bleachers song with the verses taken out.

alright upon giving every song at least one listen:

Cage The Elephant - nothing to write home about, but at least was up to the level of modest aughts schmindie pleasures like the shins

Arctic Monkeys - sounds more like a decent album/set climax than a big single/encore number, but whatev

kongos - some vulture quiz i took months ago said this would be my song of the summer and i get WHY they thought i'd be up for some eccentric new wave throwback that but i mostly find it overlong and obnoxious

Fitz & The Tantrums - avoided this because I hated their Darryl Hall Soul Patrol shtick back when "Moneymaker" was the single and I worked at VH1, but this is actually pretty catchy

Black Keys - similarly bouncy and modestly hooky, like fitz and cage. figured they'd be at least this pop profesh on singles this many albums in, though fittingly overlong as they're this many albums in

bleachers - is this a mash-up of wall of voodoo and something from high school musical? like the kongos it feels like something i should like in its eccentricity but i don't yet

big data - feels like a mash-up of NIN's "only" and Justice's "DVNO" and as such would be my favorite thing if it wasn't oddly more tepid than either touchstone.

vance joy - tiptoe through the tulips with someone else, mumford

milky chance - yeah i'm voting for this on some 98, everlast-eye sugar ray shit

foo fighters - fuck farters

maybe i am the only person who sort of likes that milky chance song. it's pleasant sounding, it just gets boring fast and is performed by a guy named "milky chance"

i hate the kongos song more than everything on the whole earth

oh lol didn't read the post before mine

I listened to Bleachers, Big Data, Vance Joy and Milky Chance just now and they all made me feel old. Do teens still pay attention to new rock formats? I feel like they don't, although I know kids were into stuff like Imagine Dragons and MGMT when they were fresher names. But otherwise this seems like a reflection of what unadventurous college-age through 40s "rock" fans might want to hear. Whenever I've attempted to listen to these stations over the past 2-3 years, they all sound so awkward, poorly segueing these newer singles into "Tonight Tonight" or The Toadies or "Animal" by Pearl Jam. (I'm assuming this is how it sounds in other cities also since I'm basing this from a Clear Channel station. Or iHeartradio or whatever it's called now.)

that only three of these songs have gone top 40 - none top 20 - does suggest minimal weight in succeeding on this chart

i like all the new arctic monkeys songs but all the songs sound so much the same that the thought of actually listening to the album in one go is inconceivable, given the vaguely menacing, villainous atmosphere they've got (other albums where all the songs sound the same, i.e. sade, creedence, stereolab have much more winning throughlines)

yeah '14 was a pretty weak year for crossover compared to the Foster The People/Lorde/Imagine Dragons era of the previous few years. i get the sense 'mainstream radio alternative' has about the same size listener base as 'pitchfork indie' at this point but the latter is split into far more subdivisions of individually smaller niches and artists.

it is a little disappointing that i've now heard enough Arctic Monkeys that the actual sound of their songs has replaced the OI HAVE A PINT OF CYNICISM MATE blood sausage parody version that was floating around in my head

haha otm

i get the sense 'mainstream radio alternative' has about the same size listener base as 'pitchfork indie' at this point

Ha, I've been wondering this too. I couldn't hum back or quote a line from a single one of these songs.

much better songs on the Arctic Monkeys album but this one's OK, and, yeah, suddenly they start writing good songs as soon as they think of coherent titles and the lead singer actually mousses his hair. I dunno if their label gave them a bigger push, but several songs went into rotation at my college radio station -- something that their debut didn't even do.

Voted for "Dangerous."

it is a little disappointing that i've now heard enough Arctic Monkeys that the actual sound of their songs has replaced the OI HAVE A PINT OF CYNICISM MATE blood sausage parody version

i've heard them and that's still what they sound like

http://content.asos-media.com/~/media/280414043503/Images/uk/Men/2013/MW_WC_30_12_13/7_Sunday/ASOS_MW_DD_ARTICLE_ALEX_TURNER_2.jpg?mw=603

it is a little disappointing that i've now heard enough Arctic Monkeys that the actual sound of their songs has replaced the OI HAVE A PINT OF CYNICISM MATE blood sausage parody version that was floating around in my head― un chill goon (some dude), Thursday, January 1, 2015 2:36 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like this was an actual song called "Jump Into the Fog" by the Wombats...?

Anyways, I'm voting for Big Data

***ALSO***: Everybody vote for that Phantogram song in the tracks poll!

"Do I Wanna Know?" over "Dangerous" and "Riptide."

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Jesus I've only heard of three of these bands.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

what are milky's fans called? milkers? milkpeople? udderyankers? cowazoids? "i'd like to thank my three milkers at ilx for giving me a fighting milky chance"

Watched that Grammy clip of Hozier with Annie Lennox. Ugh, his blue-eyed melodrama is beloved, but its so mundane

Maybe wrong thread, but he does not have one yet. No poptimists here have chosen to endorse him I guess

yes clearly his schtick has some unknowable cache with poptimists

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=8290

Nope, no love for him here

I'm not sure it's good but I like "I Want to Know" so much it kinda made me backpedal some of my "Come With Me Now" (though I like it better when I'm pretending that on the last "I want to know" in the chorus, lead Kongo is singing "I don't wanna know"). There's p much no chance this was cut after summer and yet it hews so closely to the 'Rude' template (while simultaneously blowing that song away) it's still hard not to see it as some sort of response