Billboard Modern Rock #1 Hits of 2015

given that the elle king song is the only one that reminds me of quixotic, she wins

hoo boy

Just read that "Stressed Out" is nearly set to top the number of weekly spins in the history of the chart.

uh yeah elle king is prob the only song i like here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=970CL4BIMU4

I voted "Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)"... real earworm. Elle King would've been A close second

here is my more cherrypicked selection of this year's modern rock hits:
http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-20-best-rockalternative-hits-of-2015.html

nothing to vote for here. modest mouse is the only band i can stomach but "Lampshades on Fire" sucks

some dude is OTM, "Shut Up and Dance" over "Ex's & Oh's," and "Dead Inside"

"Something from Nothing" has a little "Trampled Under Foot" keyboard funk to it

it's wild that Cold War Kids stuck out being a middle-of-the-pack blog rock band like 9-10 years ago and kept chipping away at radio with a half dozen minor hits before they just came out of nowhere with a #1 song. as a song it's okay, i guess, but what an unexpected career turn.

god I hate "shut up and dance"

Just read that "Stressed Out" is nearly set to top the number of weekly spins in the history of the chart.

i have no idea whether audience numbers for alt rock stations are decent these days so idk if that means much. new spin records are bound to be broken (by songs that are big regardless, ofc) as playlists continue to tighten, which i believe is true on virtually all radio formats

I'm so fucking embarrassed to be a rock fan.

Hmmmm, Maura and Brad like Elle King - "Ex's & Oh's" while Some Dude thinks its one of the worst cuts of the year. I haven't heard it yet.

i never liked quixotic either, there were a couple years that they were always opening for bands i liked and i just couldn't warm to em

i think 'shut up and dance' is the only thing on here i know and it's Bad

I am still pissed at "Shut Up and Dance" for not being related to Shut Up and Dance

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?

https://youtu.be/wqg2C9q3K3w

I am a big fan of this Cage the Elephant song. So not what I pictured for them after "Ain't No Rest of the Wicked" et al

There were several dozen rock singles this year that actually didn't suck. Big surprise: None of them charted.

would take the gin blossoms over any of this shit

@billstevejim name names!!

btw 'plush' and 'interstate love song' are back in the modern rock top ten:
http://www.billboard.com/charts/rock-songs

i think 'shut up and dance' is the only thing on here i know and it's Bad

― ciderpress, Thursday, December 17, 2015 9:09 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup

Meh, I dont know anything on here either; the local modern rock station round here ended up changing formats (to classic country of all things) probably around March??? Kind of bummed that Kongos' "I Want to Know" didn't reach the top, as that ended up being a big boneheaded guilty pleasure of mine...

I'd bet I probably wouldn't hate the Modest Mouse, AWOLNation, and Cage the Elephant songs

Kongos did have one #1 and another good-sized US hit but i never heard "I Want To Know"

xp here are some:
https://soundcloud.com/ipecacrecordings/faith-no-more-superhero
https://soundcloud.com/partisan-records/dilly-dally-purple-rage
https://soundcloud.com/reverberationappreciation/02-heavy-metal-suicide
https://soundcloud.com/explodinginsoundrecords/two-inch-astronaut-good-behavior
https://soundcloud.com/yuck/yuck-hold-me-closer
https://soundcloud.com/temporary-residence-ltd-1/03-business-interruptus/s-7dDAn

dilly dally! two inch astronaut!

that rob crow bass line >

wait, rob crow what?

Xp to dufe: really? I Want to Know was all over the alt rock station in my neck of the woods

Dude! I mean, dude!

Although, now... (sorry)

xxxp wow those are all super 90s-sounding

I kinda like the Rob Crow track though, is the whole album worth hearing?

http://condor.depaul.edu/dweinste/rock/whokilledradio.html

WHO KILLED ROCK RADIO?
Modern Rock radio once offered serious music fans refuge from the one-hit wonders, mind-numbing repetitions, and classic schlock of Top 40. Today, the format is as bland and predictable as a Third Eye Blind single. Keith Moerer plows through the rubble of the modern-rock revolution.

by Keith Moerer, SPIN -- February 1998

Today, the format is as bland and predictable as a Third Eye Blind single.

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lol 1998

3EB killed radio.

i want something else to get me through these one-hit wonders and mind-numbing repetitions

(I just realized the Rob Crow thing isn't even out, I'm dumb)

oh dear that article appears to be assigned reading for some unfortunate souls

Maybe a poll for these next week... here are the year's #2 and #3 modern rock hits:

#2
Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?
Death Cab for Cutie - Black Sun
21 Pilots - Tear in My Heart
Beck - Dreams

#3
Imagine Dragons - I Bet My Life
Bleachers - Rollercoaster
Robert DeLong - Long Way Down
Death Cab for Cutie - Ghosts of Beverly Drive
Nathaniel Rateliff & Night Sweats - S.O.B.

r u mine is so good, one of my favorite singles of the past few years

i saw imagine dragons this year and their live show is very effective

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