Modern Rock #1 Hits of 2009

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Muse

Hmmm... a tough choice between mostly bland songs, but I'm voting "Panic Switch" (even though "Lazy Eye" is a million times better).

"Second Chance" is the best Bon Jovi song since the '80s

HAHA... so is "Use Somebody" our generation's "Wanted Dead or Alive"?

man, somehow missed the '08 poll entirely - probably would have voted for Viva La Vida anyway, though.

i don't even know if i've heard all these songs, but I like "New Divide" and those two Kings Of Leon hits have grown on me. Though I was bummed to learn from karaoke that "YOUUUUU...YOUR SEX IS ON FIRE!" isn't just chanted but instead paired with "CONSUUUUUMED...by what's to transpire!" which is another tier of awful.

Damn...another one where I dont even think I can vote, though my compulsion is certainly to vote AGAINST Shinedown.

I will give a listen to the PJ, Anberlin and SP tracks before boycotting, though...don't know those (at least knowingly) and they have a good shot at being better than Shinedown, KoL and Linkin Park.

I like how completely undercooked the Alice In Chains track is. Like a rough sketch that they decided to release because the riff was good even though the chorus was nonsense and the verses non-existant. Which makes it better than all these other songs where the bands give a shit.

I almost like instrumental "Brother" better than vocal "Brother." Compare and contrast:

Instrumental (2003): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nYM8IgVl4w
Vocal (2009)): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW4KVXRGQOA

man I didn't know Silversun Pickups had a song that was a bigger chart hit than "Lazy Eye."

Kings of Leon, "Sex on Fire" - current generation's Dave Matthews Band?
Shinedown, "Second Chance" - pretty catchy pop-country track, cool album cover - they should have lost that violin section though
Incubus, "Love Hurts" - just can't take a band called Incubus seriously
Pearl Jam, "Brother" - I don't get it
Kings of Leon, "Use Somebody" - this is like all the boring parts of modern alternative put together in one track
Anberlin, "The Feel-Good Drag" - this would shred on Guitar Hero or Rock Band
Green Day, "Know Your Enemy" - a little too primped and perfect
Linkin Park, "New Divide" - I can see why these guys are so popular but that doesn't make the music good
Silversun Pickups, "Panic Switch" - not half bad
Kings of Leon, "Notion" - zzzzzzzzz
Muse, "Uprising" - cool album cover, good groove, totally overbearing vocals - makes me want to listen to the Darkness
Alice in Chains, "Check My Brain" - this should not exist

"Not half bad" wins.

the instrumental "Brother" thing is weird because i think they recorded the vocals for the song back when it was new in 1991 but then for that b-sides comp Mike McCready said in the liner notes "Eddie asked me to play a solo over the song so i did" or whatever, like they knew they were holding the real song back for a reissue and just wanted a noodly outtake version to throw on the comp.

i always forget what the one Anberlin song i like is called, apparently it's "The Feel-Good Drag," could've voted for that instead of Shinedown i guess.

Man I thought 1901 was a lock for this poll

Anyways, Silversun Pickups

"1901" hit #1 in early 2010

hmm well actually i rather liked use somebody so i guess that

silversun easily

alice in chains i guess. i must've tapped out on modern rock radio by this point because i only recognize half of these, and they're all brain-meltingly awful

it amazes me that Kings of Leon got a third #1 off that album from sheer momentum, i wonder if anybody who doesn't own the album can hum "Notion"

ooh ahh ooh ahh Notion ooh ooh aah aah

I'm assuming it's a cover of "Rock the Boat" by Hues Corporation

lol anberlin had a #1 modern rock hit?

christian pop-punk band i listened to in college makes it big

"Sex On Fire" is the only one of these I remember.

"Use Somebody" was inescapable for about a year

ugh. yes it was

I'm pretty sure I only ever heard it a time or two. Couldn't tell you how it goes.

"Sex on Fire"

"Sex On Fire" is the only one of these I remember.

― The Reverend, Monday, July 2, 2012 3:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

and it is godawful. not voting on this technicality.

"use somebody" is the vaguely arcade fire one or maybe vaguely coldplay. bad u2. voted alice in chains as a legacy vote plus that track was way way better than anyone could've imagined an 'alice chains reunion track' would be.

i know i heard the AIC and was like "oh right, Jerry cantrell wrote the catchy ones anyway" but i'll be damned if i remember how it goes

it sounds like any other relatively uptempo aic song w/ prominent lawn mower guitar a la 'from a motel 6'

speaking my language, dawg

"check my brain" is the only AIC song i've ever liked, so that

It's weird how similar "Check My Brain" is to the Layne Staley-era Alice in Chains... cut from the same cloth as "Get Born Again," "Grind," and "Angry Chair."

it's not that weird, since as croupier noted, Cantrell was always the primary songwriter of the band. and they went out of their way to find a new singer who sounds enough like Staley.

their album songwriting credits are like "all lyrics by staley except for the hit, which was by cantrell alone"

well hey, layne's dad just wasn't the rooster

Is this the worst year for Modern Rock #1s? I think it might be.

'08 was worse imo

They are both pretty dire.

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Three Kings of Leon tracks on a single poll? Isn't there a law against that?

bearing gifts we traverse afar

Slim pickings, the Alice in Chains is quite catchy I guess.

You have already voted for "Check My Brain" and cannot vote again.

I will say one thing for nu-AIC: for years those guys made bank off of funereal grimness, but nothing confirms their grisly cred like the realization that Layne was ultimately expendable

That's sad/deep. Favorite Layne AIC track: "Nutshell" off "Jar of Flies."

I imagine he had quite a bit of input into the weird harmonies and twisty melodies that made AiC interesting.

yeah, good call (xpost)

deep and correct

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