best mainstream rock radio hit of 2010

nothing says "mainstream" like "alternative"

i don't think i've heard a single one of these u_u

train doesn't qualify?

afaik the only ones i've heard are mumford & sons, neon trees & of course against me

most of the rock i heard on the radio this year was of the softer/AC bent

of these i'm gonna vote for neon trees, even tho against me! is the best it doesn't really seem to be of the same ilk as these joints

my top 10:

1. Neon Trees - "Animal"
2. Sick Puppies - "Odd One"
3. Brandon Flowers - "Crossfire"
4. Anberlin - "Impossible"
5. Switchfoot - "The Sound (John M. Perkins' Blues)"
6. Muse - "Undisclosed Desires"
7. Stone Temple Pilots - "Between The Lines"
8. Jimmy Eat World - "My Best Theory"
9. Kings Of Leon - "Radioactive"
10. Papa Roach - "Kick In The Teeth"

Train crossed over to adult contempo-land years ago and haven't had a new song on rock radio in a long time, especially not "Hey, Soul Sister"

bottom 10:
1. The Dirty Heads featuring Rome - "Lay Me Down"
2. Five Finger Death Punch - "Bad Company"
3. Apocalyptica featuring Gavin Rossdale - "End of Me"
4. Cage The Elephant - "In One Ear"
5. Muse - "Resistance"
6. Avenged Sevenfold - "Nightmare"
7. Godsmack - "Love-Hate-Sex-Pain"
8. Ozzy Osbourne - "Let Me Hear You Scream"
9. 30 Seconds To Mars - "This Is War"
10. Three Days Grace - "The Good Life"

other ones i like that were too recent or not big enough to get on the Billboard lists:
My Chemical Romance - “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)”
Linkin Park - “Waiting For The End”
Cavo - “Crash”
Nickelback - “This Afternoon”
Green Day - “Last Of The American Girls”
Good Charlotte - “Like It’s Her Birthday”
Soundgarden - “Black Rain”

I'd rank the Godsmack songs but there's a better chance of my dick turning into a cheeseburger than me ever listening to their shit again

well get on it dickburger

I actually dig Silversun Pickups on an instant-leave-me-alone-gratification level.

Ozzy is so beyond caricature at this point that he's almost looped back around to being enjoyable again, but, no, not quite

stone temple pilots tho, always reliable

Silversun Pickups - "The Royal We"

One good song... this is not a difficult vote.

gotta say that i'm surprised that mumford & sons escaped al's bottom 10

it was close, i had a pretty extreme negative reaction to it initially but i've kinda left it on once or twice now and ended up if not enjoying it then at least more neutral toward it

Neon Animals FTW.

Ugh. Neon Trees - Animal.

All names seem interchangeable these days.

"lay me down" is so fucking bad, i am appalled that it was #1 on that chart for so long. and tbh i think "animal" is pretty shitty too, not quite sure what everyone seems to like about it.

i voted for "tighten up" -- don't like the album that much but it's among my fav tracks this year. i like the production.

i don't think i've heard a single one of these u_u

omg and that jack johnson track, i had forgotten about that -________-

Linkin Park - "The Catalyst"
Metric - "Gold Guns Girls"
Deftones - "Diamond Eyes"

^^^one of these 3

probably gonna vote linkin park because the other two can do so much better

Deftones song is on my Pazz and Jop ballot. Totally amazing Angel Dust-era Faith No More rip. I love it.

shipley what weird herb planet do you live on where you're like the biggest sonic youth fan I've ever met but would rather fuck with Papa Roach's cornball 7 Fast 7 Furious date-rape music than the rad 120 Minutes throwbacks that Linkin Park (faux-NIN) and Deftones (faux-FNM) were cookin up in 2010

like the deftones album but i thought the title-track was one of the weaker numbers! your last post is otm tho

i wait, i thought i was voting on "Rocket Skates"

"Rocket Skates" is the good Deftones song off that album :/

haaaaaaa

beauty school, 976-evil, ghosts as well

shipley what weird herb planet do you live on where you're like the biggest sonic youth fan I've ever met but would rather fuck with Papa Roach's cornball 7 Fast 7 Furious date-rape music than the rad 120 Minutes throwbacks that Linkin Park (faux-NIN) and Deftones (faux-FNM) were cookin up in 2010

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haven't heard any recent Deftones, was never really big into them. comparing "The Catalyst" to Nine Inch Nails is generous imo and "Waiting For The End" and some other cuts on the album are just so so so much better. anyway what do Faith No More and NIN really have to do with Sonic Youth? if anything the most SY-ish band on this list is Silversun Pickups and I could give a fuck about them. and I've written in the past about how Papa Roach kind of have secretly become a dope singles band that don't sound that much like "Last Resort."

lol, neither of the Muse songs on here is the one that always makes me think I like Muse more than I actually do ("Uprising") (no I do not want to watch "Twilight", thank you)

I think I'm voting Neon Trees...?

fwiw "Uprising" was #1 on the Billboard Alternative list but it was out in '09 so i nixed it from the poll options. i really hate that and "Resistance" but the synthy newer one and a couple singles from the previous album are cool with me.

Whenever I listen to recent Muse songs, I enjoy them while I am hearing them, but aside from "Uprising" as the song goes on the desire to turn it off just builds as the song goes on. It's a weird attract/repel reaction and I find it kind of impressive because I can't really think of another band that does that to me.

Black Holes & Revelations is awesome album, fuiud

(It's also, coincidentally, exactly all the Muse I need in my life.)

h8d "animal" as a youtube, fell in <3 w it on the radio

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lol apologies to switchfoot for calling them "switchfood"

Against Me, although there are far better songs on that record. I still don't understand why they never caught on.

amazing how much 90s holdover garbage is on here

they've had multiple radio hits and have gotten mad year-end critics' list love, to what extent have they not 'caught on'? (xpost)

only bands here i'd really consider '90s bands are AIC, STP and Godsmack. unless you mean younger bands doing '90s-style rock.

Linkin Park, Deftones are from the 90s - was gonna add Papa Roach but I forgot they debuted in 2000

oh and Jimmy Eat World. I'll give Avenged Sevenfold a pass.

and then of course good ol Gavin Rossdale

i think the only one of these i know is mumford; that is the worst fuckin song

Linkin Park debuted in 2000 and Deftones/JEW didn't really get played on the radio til 2000 or later

Apocalyptica featuring Gavin Rossdale - "End of Me"

wtf

aren't Apocalyptica the dudes that play Metallica jams on cellos?

yes...they started doing albums w/ original material with guest singers and having radio hits a few years back.

for me this is coming down to "Undisclosed Desires" or the very additive "Animal." though KROQ seems to play "Crossfire" an awful lot and is now stuck in my head. where Brandon voice goes all bubbly in the song and sounds like he is on drugs is pretty cool.

Animal

heard neon trees for the first time on the radio today, wasn't "animal" but "1983". dig their sound so i'll vote "animal"

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k3vin you haven't heard "Animal"? that song's ubiqutious

haha i didn't even realize the results were in the last time i posted. nice showing for "Animal"!