Modern Rock #1 Hits of 2006

probably the best year of #1s in the past decade imo -- could vote for "Perfect Situation" or "When You Were Young" or "Hypnotize" or "Anna-Molly"

I still love that Killers tune.

I have a secret weakness for that Weezer song. The hook is so strong, it seems like one of those melodies that's been around forever.

"When You Were Young"

last three are all killer

love the PJ song too

That Killers song is awesome. I have a huge soft spot for the MCR song. It's actually the only MCR song I know but I LOVE it.

i don't know which one is the best, but i voted for "when you were young" just because i've been listened to it a lot over the past two days or so

also, i've been listening to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhU12zC8fc

since, like, last night i think

x-post - It's amazing. I think the video was p cool too iirc.

gonna vote "anna-molly" because it probably won't get any other votes otherwise

light grenades is seriously the best incubus album if you toss "love hurts"

ok i'm gonna vote for The Killers in hopes of helping it defeat "Welcome To The Black Parade"

since "when you were young" is prob gonna win i'm gonna vote for "black parade"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdWZgTvf4t0

I voted "Anna-Molly." That album had great singles, especially "Dig" and "Oil & Water."

yeah "Dig" is great

"When You Were Young" had this great turnaround from sounding absurd and awful at verse to like wait no this is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIqbdnaPcT8

I'm with Jordan - When You Were Young won't need any help. Voted Black Parade.

Voting "Anna-Molly".

surprised by the outpouring of Incubus enthusiasm after the anemic turnout for Incubus singles poll

I don't know enough Incubus to vote in a singles poll, but I like "Anna-Molly" the most out of these songs.

I would have voted "Stellar." Am I closet Incubus fan and not know it???

"When You Were Young" had this great turnaround from sounding absurd and awful at verse to like wait no this is awesome

much as i love the record this description applies to basically every song on sam's town

magnificent karaoke anthem too

Black Parade. That's how much this list sucks.

Granted, still way better than the mook rock of 99-02 (or thereabouts).

lol here I was thinking it was super obvious that NIN was the best of these

i took the less obvious pick in the past couple ones but 'when you were young' is just that good here

SOAD, no hesitation.

The opening build & release is magnificent, and the first folky instrumental bridge is nuts.

^^^^^^ straight fire beautiful song

Seriously, anyone who doesn't find 2.00 to 2.30 gorgeous and exhilarating has a completely opposite conception of what makes good music to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZc1T3oxh_A

That Final Fantasy section is pretty great.

Also great SOAD form this period: "BYOB."

i've definitely said this before but aside from "hypnotize" and "byob" the choices for singles from those two records was totally bizarre, especially since like 80% of mezmerize is total hooks

imo as a rule every 1st single from SOAD albums >>> every other single

Radio/Video and Lost in Hollywood should've been singles.

lol this list

a firestorm to purify

there isn't a single song on this list I really like. gonna have to sit this one out.

the SOAD and My Chem songs are goon-rock canon

SOAD, no hesitation.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, June 18, 2012 1:58 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seriously, if you vote anything but SOAD or MCR in this poll, I don't fucks w u

http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/GoonRock+MTV+Europe+Music+Awards+2011+Arrivals+OuwW_qftVF3l.jpg

WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY MY FATHER TOOK ME INTO THE CITY TO SEE A MARCHING BAND

"Welcome To The Black Parade" was a heartbreaking falloff from "Helena" and "I'm Not Okay" imo

no wai

shit was like "Stone Cold Crazy" into "Bohemian Rhapsody"

Al you are insane. Granted, I already admitted that I don't think I have ever heard another MCR song but I can say with absolute certainty that TBP is their best.

yeah it's pretty insane to have opinions about songs i've actually heard

;p

Pretty good list, magnificent compared to the previous 00s lists. Voted MCR over Killers (although I'd take AFI's Decemberunderground over The Black Parade easily). I like the songs by SoaD, Foo Fighters, AFI, Raconteurs, and Pearl Jam. I have fond memories of drunkenly singing along to a lot of this shit with my roommate and neighbour in 06-07.

I never liked The Black Parade nearly as much as Three Cheers but I'm surprised that "Welcome..." wouldn't appeal at all to someone who loved the earlier album. It's not "Helena" but nothing is.

I never bothered to check out Mesmerize/Hypnotize, I think because I didn't find the singles as compelling as those from Toxicity. This thread is making me think I should give them a shot some time.

yeah they're solid records, def worth hearing for any fans of the first 2 albums. some days Mezmerize is my favorite SOAD album.

Not feeling this list at all. Voting AFI just because I like their first couple of records, so I might as well.

only recognize like half these titles, but the ones i do recognize all gargle turds

Voting Anna Molly just over the SOAD tune.

I have never heard "Tell Me Baby," "Anna-Molly," "The Animal I've Become" or even knew that a band named 10 Years existed. I feel like dancing.

"DOA" "Perfect Situation" & "World Wide Suicide" would some of the better later songs by those guys, but I think I have to go with "When We Were Young"

10 Years is the first band since the early '90s I had never heard of when compiling this list.

"Welcome To The Black Parade" was a heartbreaking falloff from "Helena" and "I'm Not Okay" imo

Agree w/this.

thank you

only song on black parade i really enjoy is "dead!"

rest is just a little too styx

imo as a rule every 1st single from SOAD albums >>> every other single
― some dude, Monday, June 18, 2012 2:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

K-Rock in New York played "Cigaro" a month or so before playing "BYOB" and I recall thinking it was the heaviest song to ever receive such frequent spins on a major commercial rock station, which might be correct.

I've grown to enjoy MCR's "Teenagers."

yeah "Dead!" and "Teenagers" are aight but the album as a whole is a wash imo. last album was great but nobody cared because they took 4 fuckin years to make it.

cannot at all understand these opinions about black parade but hey yeah danger days was totally great, yeah

teenagers is awesome

I kind of thought "Teenagers" was the hokiest thing on there, actually. On the other hand, it's one of the only two songs I remember from the album so that's something.

Helena's hokey too, but it owns

/imo as a rule every 1st single from SOAD albums >>> every other single
― some dude, Monday, June 18, 2012 2:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark/

K-Rock in New York played "Cigaro" a month or so before playing "BYOB" and I recall thinking it was the heaviest song to ever receive such frequent spins on a major commercial rock station, which might be correct.
--billstevejim

Five Finger Death Punch got hella radio play

their biggest hits are power ballads and a cover of fucking "Bad Company" though

black parade is a great album goddamn you all

Danger Days is good like Three Cheers is good? I should give it a chance. You guys were totally right about Folie à Deux after all.

Three Cheers is by far their best, even Black Parade stans can't front on that

oh wait n/m that wasn't your question -- Danger Days is not AS good but it's worth checking out

SOAD's "Sugar" seemed pretty atonal and frenzied for alt-rock stations back in 1999 to me.

oh yeah, i totally didn't get them at first -- my cooler-than-i-realized-at-the-time friend who also played me Aquemeni for the first time had to convince me of how great "Sugar" was

I have to admit that Gerard Way's vocals aren't really holding up as great as I might have liked.

ha Sugar might still be SOAD's finest moment

"Sugar" is great (but is surely not atonal). Crystallizes all the things I like about them: clever range of vocal styles, stop-start rhythmic mania, weirdly hooky dissonant riff.

black parade is a great album goddamn you all

― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

better than Three Cheers tho?

unquestionably

think they're about equal in my estimation

Love the song... but Serj doesn't quite sing as shout.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

What a boring winner.

i can't tell if whiney has mistaken self-importance for importance in rock or is just a secret broadway baby

What a boring winner.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap),

you're waitin on some beautiful boy to save you from your old ways?

kind of sorry "DOA" got a goose-egg, it's zippy enough that having dave grohl sing about a suicide blonde or what-the-fuck-ever is funny rather than sad.

also the "nothing like the taste of sweet decline" verse stuff always reminds me of the "words all fail the magic prize" part of "add it up"

yeah "DOA" is pretty good

i like most Raconteurs songs but not the actual popular one

I've been on a bit of a MCR kick since this poll. The Black Parade actually sounds much better now. There are some good songs on Danger Days but I'm not sure yet what to make of it.

The Black Parade actually sounds much better now.

Maybe because I was just listening for hooks, without expecting it to be more like Three Cheers? Not sure what the difference is.