Modern Rock #1 Hits of 2010

I think it'll be "1901" in a landslide.

Uh, yeah. The rest of this list is sad.

"Kings And Queens" may be the single most embarrassing song i have endorsed in any of these polls

Not a fan of the playground chorus?

no i love the song, i'm just not proud to say so

letophilia is a crippling condition

i am generally letophobic, for some reason the song where he screams WE ARE THE QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENS is the exception

1901 is so much better than everything else I'm familiar with here that I'll vote for that. 30 seconds to mars track is like Toto's Africa plus low-grade Christian emo.

I just don't get Cage the Elephant. They wrote the same song 5 different times.

I liked the Pixies pastiche album they put out in 2011

"1901". If I've heard Cage The Elephant, Neon Trees, Crash Kings, Dirty Heads or Mumford & Sons, I can't remember what they actually sound like. You could say I'm out of the loop, but you really have to go out of your way to get in the loop these days.

actually I should have heard mumford by now, all you have to do is watch the grammys i think

Best Text Message In 30 Seconds To Mars' "Closer To The Edge" video

well having a non-classic rock station pre-programmed on your car radio doesn't seem that much like 'going out of your way' to me but yeah it's not like any of these besides the Neon Trees song have any kind of profile outside those stations.

the Cage The Elephant song that goes "it goes in one ear and right out the other" is the follow-up to the one that goes "there ain't no rest for the wicked, money don't grow on trees" -- they're like a musical cliche generator.

well having a non-classic rock station pre-programmed on your car radio doesn't seem that much like 'going out of your way' to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8JQayjYAX4

lol i never saw that thread

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3vjtjYI9V1qbrq03o1_400.gif

it feels very likely that i watched that lou reed on leno performance when it aired

"The Catalyst"

lmfao at anyone who votes GAPDY-weakest-link/shrill Daft Strokes fashion contest Phoenix over that righteous Linkin Park jam

Cliche generator... HA! Your forgot "Like a sittin' duck, just waitin' for the fall... You got my back against the wall."

I only voted Phoenix because I liked their car commercial

Phoenix are a car commercial

I just realized going through the videos of these that I really enjoyed Radioactive as a radio-rock song that would come on in stores/driving/etc.

OMG at the Kings + Queens video though... Not a music video, a video "inspired" by the song that plays through it. Its so epically overdone in every way. CRITICAL MASS, MAN!

"Kings And Queens" sounded really hilarious and perfect in a Sunkist commercial btw

it's a shame there hasn't been any Keanu Reeves cyberpunk thriller lately for "The Catalyst" to be in the trailer of

"Radioactive" is definitely the closest i've ever come to not hating a Kings Of Leon song

ha Whiney reminds me that I still need to check out that Linkin Park album

The Catalyst is their weirdest number-one... melody hard to find, and it gets all proggy at the end. Waiting for the End, coming up next week, is my favorite, I think.

Neon Trees has the only song here I have any memory of hearing, and I wouldn't vote for that song to do anything at all. Not even to fall into a black hole.

xpost It might be THE weirdest number one since like Siouxsie's "Peek-A-Boo"

it's about as 'weird' as The Muse songs on this list, has the same kind of cheesy rock opera sense of foreboding

Doesn't it completely switch tempos halfway through?

And there's like no guitars on it? I'm not saying its Borbetomagus or anything but it's certainly not Kings of Leon either

yeah i mean it's off the beaten path for LP somewhat. i think its length is its biggest roadblock to accessibility but i don't know if radio stations were playing a shorter edit since i never lasted 30 seconds.

I don't remember "The Catalyst" at all but my first impression is "lol someone thought 'Survivalism' was too challenging"

Doesn't it completely switch tempos halfway through?

no, the vocal goes all elagiac for the big coda. same tempo.

haha oh yeah it is kinda like "Survivalism," which was also an inert chore imo

also how is it hard to find the melody, it's one note repeated ad nauseum

(well okay there's an occasional whole step thrown in there)

also how is it hard to find the melody, it's one note repeated ad nauseum
--I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP)

This is what I love about it

oh THIS song is "Kings and Queens", some dude OTM this is awesome

http://i.imgur.com/yKtpD.png

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i don't think i like any of these

i do remember that there was a promo contest for "catalyst" where you could download all the parts/loops and submit your own new version or remix or whatever. some musician friends were excited for about half a minute, but the song sucked so we never did anything with it.

man Leto is really Letoing all over this song, huh

I just want to get him a lozenge

in the video a gang of colorfully dressed bicyclists follow the leto

which video was them basically re-enacting the movie "Hero"

the "We Are Young" of 2010

"From Yesterday," which was the follow-up to a video where they re-enacted The Shining -- it's like Leto just went 'fuck it, i'm never gonna be in a great movie so let's just pretend with these videos' (xpost)

huh I have never heard "Resistance" either

oh wait just hit the chorus, I have heard this and it desperately needs to be punched in the face

yeah that chorus is appalling

every time I hear "Uprising" I ask myself "why was it that I hated Muse so much, I really dig this" but then I go "I must have had a good reason" and move on

I now remember my good reason

wtf is this Crash Kings bullshit

I mean, was anyone really dying for a "funky" version of The Fray

jesus fuck the more of these songs I explore, the more I despair for humanity

how the hell did this terrible Dirty Heads song reach #1 on anything besides "songs you should never, ever listen to"

okay, i lied, i do like "uprising", mostly for the depeche mode synths

well we're talking about a chart that suffered over a decade of Sublime withdrawal (xpost)

featuring rome of sublime with rome

It sounds like Sublime, and the Brad Nowell replacement dude is singing.

Depeche Mode really are like the most secretly influential band on rock radio today, between Muse and Linkin Park and that M83 song that has slowly become huge

Some of these songs really do explain how Kings of Leon exploded and became so omnipresent for a while; if my options were between "Use Somebody"/"Radioactive" and fucking Dirty Heads/Crash Kings, I'd be keeping KoL on the top of the charts forever too and be totally suspicious of anyone not doing the same

ugh fucking Mumford & Sons

SET ME ON FIRE

still don't get pheonix

eh nobody ever went broke sounding like the strokes in this day and age

oh god i remember "kings and queens" being on commercials for some orange drink NONSTOP for a few months. words can't describe my hate for that song just because of that.

ummmm i'm voting for "tighten up" which is the only song i really liked from the black keys. i know liking it probably reveals how bad my taste is or something but oh well. phoenix never interested me much.

"1901" has a great intro but the rest of the song doesn't really live up to it

I may feel this way because I heard the intro over and over in a cool car commercial

oh THIS is "Tighten Up"

jesus christ how many commercials featured these songs

which muse song is the one with the swung beat? i might vote for that it's alright

uprising

god i just hate that guy's voice so much

i dont fuckin know any of these, and i dont want to

how have 30 Seconds To Mars had such longevity

"1901". If I've heard Cage The Elephant, Neon Trees, Crash Kings, Dirty Heads or Mumford & Sons, I can't remember what they actually sound like. You could say I'm out of the loop, but you really have to go out of your way to get in the loop these days.

― da croupier, Thursday, July 5, 2012 10:28 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah

time moves slower in space maybe ;)

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well having a non-classic rock station pre-programmed on your car radio doesn't seem that much like 'going out of your way' to me but yeah it's not like any of these besides the Neon Trees song have any kind of profile outside those stations.

― some dude, Thursday, July 5, 2012 10:30 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

ive had the modern rock station on my presets forever, but for the past few years whenever i land on it while im idling flipping through stations i just end up listening to 3-5 seconds and switching to the next station

yeah...also new music seems to be a much smaller % of their playlists than, say, urban stations or country stations or pop stations. but y'know, i was just saying. it's funny when people that know every song that's ever been on 'the forkcast' by heart are just alarmed that anyone is familiar with songs played on terrestrial radio.

i totally get loving this linkin park era if you were raised on early '90s funk metal and say stuff like "yeah i used to fuck with 311"

"Listzomania" >>> "1901" but I'm cool with French variations on Is This It

i wanted to hate Phoenix unilaterally after "1901" but "Listzomania" really grew on me

you can trust fashionable continentals not to devolve into hollery butt-rock like the actual strokes did

never have been able to figure out what the black keys offer anyone, though. maybe some people think jack white has too much personality or something?

I will never be able to hear Kings and Queens without thinking about the owl movie.

lol oh yeah i forgot about that trailer, makes me like the song even more

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

This is the most lopsided result in all of these polls. No one likes the Keys?

wow if i had known it was gonna be that much of a landslide i would've bothered to find out which of those muse songs is (probably) 'that one muse song i kinda like'.

the muse songs i kinda like are "hysteria" and "knights of cydonia," both the ones in this poll are garbage imo

and no, nobody likes 'the keys'

2 people do and that's more than enough

was really disappointed a while back when nobody on twitter took the bait when i was all "i just realized one of the biggest bands in america is a white blues-rock duo called 'the blackies'"

This is the most lopsided embarrassing result in all of these polls.

― LimbsKing, Sunday, July 8, 2012 8:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fixed

shades of alex in nyc whining about jessica lynch getting overexposed the week time mag had her on the cover every time you post

grr i don't like tumblr hipsters *proceeds to devote life to writing blurbs for tumblr hipsters for little reward*

I was not aware of the ILX Black Keys hate. They're like the only "new" band of the past decade that's put out multiple great albums that I still go back to.

grr i don't like tumblr hipsters *proceeds to devote life to writing blurbs for tumblr hipsters for little reward*

― balls, Monday, July 9, 2012 12:36 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i live in a nice apartment in the most expensive city in america, ymmv

Black Keys are the fucking worst.

the place i work will still exist in ten years, as will the industry i work in. ymmv.