biggest songs on mainstream rock/alternative radio 2011

"Whirring," although more than half this list is unknown to me.

lol

Not sure whose continued existence surprises me more: Foo Fighters, Bush, Staind, Beastie Boys, Blink 182...if you'd asked me earlier I would have bet money on none of them still being around.

afaik "pumped up kicks" & "rolling in the deep" are the only two of these i've heard more than once

wtf is joy formidable doing here

Adele, duh

Foo Fighters "Rope" close second

Not sure whose continued existence surprises me more: Foo Fighters, Bush, Staind, Beastie Boys, Blink 182...if you'd asked me earlier I would have bet money on none of them still being around.

― questino (seandalai), Tuesday, January 3, 2012 1:38 AM (1 minute ago

bush, obv

Bush scored their biggest hit in twelve years with this non-entity.

20 best:

The Foo Fighters - "Rope"
AWOLNATION - "Sail"
Adele - "Rolling In The Deep"
The Joy Formidable - "Whirring"
Coldplay - "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall"
Incubus - "Adolescents"
Young The Giant - "My Body"
My Chemical Romance - "SING"
Three Days Grace - "Lost In You"
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie"
Sick Puppies - "Rip Tide"
Airborne Toxic Event - "Changing"
Alter Bridge - "Ghost Of Days Gone By"
Sixx A.M. - "Lies Of The Beautiful People"
Switchfoot - "Dark Horses"
Seether - "Tonight"
Foster The People - "Helena Beat"
Social Distortion - "Machine Gun Blues"
Theory Of A Deadman - "Lowlife"
Staind - "Not Again"

10 most awful horrible terrible:
Bush - "The Sound of Winter"
Sublime With Rome - "Panic"
Seether - "Country Song"
Foster The People - "Pumped Up Kicks"
Cage The Elephant - "Shake Me Down"
The Foo Fighters - "Walk"
The Beastie Boys - "Make Some Noise"
Rise Against - "Help Is On The Way"
311 - "Sunset In July"
Avenged Sevenfold - "So Far Away"

wtf is joy formidable doing here

― woollen shits (electricsound), Monday, January 2, 2012 8:39 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it was moderately popular on u.s. rock radio, that's what it's doing here

As a subtle form of revenge against my 14-year-old self I'm going to check out that Bush track now.

cmon dude there is no way there are 20 'good' songs itl

whatever, 20 i like

afaik "pumped up kicks" & "rolling in the deep" are the only two of these i've heard more than once

Real Music is back.
YayPancakess 1 week ago

oh i forgot black keys in 'worst' column, fuck them 4ever

i've heard most of them and i can safely say don't listen to some dude, holy shit, what a crapfest

it was moderately popular on u.s. rock radio

this is what i'm expressing my surprise at, if it wasn't obvious

good for them anyway

"whirring" definitely. one of my favs of the whole year.

in any genre i mean.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/arts/music/rock-in-2011-hot-chelle-rae-foster-the-people-chevelle.html?_r=1&ref=music

Jon Caramanica weighs in:

2011 may well be remembered as the most numbing year for mainstream rock music in history. (For the purposes of this article, that’s more or less rock released on American major labels, regardless of origin, and played on mainstream rock radio stations.) The genre didn’t produce a single great album, and the best of the middling walked blindly in footprints laid out years, even decades, earlier. Plenty of juggernauts — U2 and Bruce Springsteen, among others — took the year off, but the genre’s failings are creative, not commercial. At this point rock is becoming a graveyard of aesthetic innovation and creativity, a lie perpetrated by major labels, radio conglomerates and touring concerns, all of whom need — or feel they need — the continued sustenance of this style of music. The fringes remain interesting, and regenerate constantly, but the center has been left to rot.

AWOLNATION, the banner artist of Red Bull records

Jon Caramanica weighs a lot

Not sure whose continued existence surprises me more: Foo Fighters, Bush, Staind, Beastie Boys, Blink 182...if you'd asked me earlier I would have bet money on none of them still being around.

Bush, Beasties and Blink technically weren't around for at least a half-decade prior to 2011. I'm guessing Foo Fighters will be around for a lot longer. And who cares about Staind..

Strokes, Janes & Chili Peppers also weren't around for a while.

rise against had some great singles

it was moderately popular on u.s. rock radio

this is what i'm expressing my surprise at, if it wasn't obvious

good for them anyway

Yes, this re "Whirring"

lol Adele was fucking EVERYWHERE last year, huh

AWOLNATION, the banner artist of Red Bull records

― een, Tuesday, January 3, 2012 1:47 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this made me laugh too but real talk "Sail" is a dope song and is on my P&J ballot

Its funny when I read reactions like "lol Foo Fighters are still around?" as if they haven't been regularly churning out rock chart hits for 15 years now.

I think it's more o_O that Green Day have a hit Broadway show

How else to explain the critical consensus around a band like Foster the People, whose album, “Torches” (StarTime/Columbia), was one of the most lauded rock albums of the year by an emerging band

It scored a 69 on Metacritic.

yeah i bet those dude scored 69s this year amirite?

Those dudes can't spell 69.

True confession, I actually bought that Bush record and its as awful as you might expect. Funny thing is I'll always stan for their first two records. Sixteen Stone is like a great example of that particular strain of grunge-pop, so much better than Collective Soul or Candlebox or w/e. And as much as Albini wants to disown their second album, I really like the sound of it. Things went downhill after they got into remixes though.

despite never having knowingly heard them, my opinion of Foster The People nosedived upon learning the band leader is a guy named Foster.

oh shit I didn't know that one either, not that my opinion was super high ever anyway

It's like 1999 never happened. Joy Formidable, obviously.

by far the ugliest one in the trio too

the only credit I will give Fester the Peehole is scoring a hit with a song about a dude shooting up his school that sounds like a lo-fi cover of something from The Electric Company, but really fuck them for taking something that can be described so awesomely and making it sound like it was filtered through a damp fart

I think Filtered Through A Damp Fart would've been a much better title than Torches.

more like the joy forgettable amirite

no you aren't rite

The Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie"

The hell...?

it's.. like.. another world!

in fact:

http://www.chartstats.com/images/thumbs/300/43677.jpg

IT IS!

makes:

http://www.wedamart.co.za/images/detailed/42/7599269562.jpg

look like

http://generationbass.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/kraftwerk3-150x150.jpg

by comparison.

wow, who ever thought RHCP would turn out to be so goofy

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9119/redhotchilipepperse.jpg

I'm happy they're still around even though the last time I liked a new RHCP song was in 2002.

BTW

You softie you...

social d had a hit single this year? what the

voted for the cage the elephant song that isnt shake me down

wtf at incubus still being a going concern

What's with all the 'something the something' band names? Foster the Elephant? There's three in there.

hooba the stank

Alter the Bridge

red hot the chili peppers

the the strokes

death cab the cutie

xps haha i could happily do this for p much every crappy band listed here :S

The Foster the People thing is forgivable if the other two members' last names are The and People.

this list is so depressing

Young the Giant

Cage the Elephant

Black the Keys

im voting for naked and famous

Beastie the Boys

3 The 11

See the ther

Foo the Fighters

i liked that song by naked the famous but it seems like more of a 2010 song to me

i'm totally going to steal the 'the' thing as a talking point next time i have to write about the rock charts and will feel no guilt because you guys wouldn't even be talking about these bands if i hadn't started this thread

Seriously, I do give you credit for this

Not that you care or need to

Whirring, easily. Like Helena Beat too, particularly in light of that awful new Scissor Sisters single (this is the kinda thing the Sisters should be doing, and used to do even better).

hey now, I started an AWOL the NATION thread and jjj started a Cage the Elephant thread; I think I even posted about how surprised I was that I liked the new Jane's the Addiction song

Voted for Joy the Formidable and their crazy late-nineties-Steve-Lamacq-show sound.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i voted for foster the people

that shit is seriously one of the worst songs even on this list

i voted for a dell

ive heard 3 of these

I remember quite liking the Blink 182 when I listened to it for review purposes, but I didn't return to it.

i was just thinking today about how after months and months i'm still on the fence about whether "up all night" is a total mess or kind of charming

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

woo!

THREE votes for a new Jane's Addiction song is deeply wtf