Station Year End Countdowns: 2011

[crash46]

Well, we usually do these every year and I don't see one yet, so have at it!

In spite of how critical I've been of 89x over the past few years, and how little I've listened to them (or any FM radio, pretty much) last year, I tuned into their countdown on New Year's Day and enjoyed it quite a bit. They do strongly lean active, cold shoulder a lot of legitimate hit records, and have their Can-Con quota, but they do it their own way, and that's cool with me. Doesn't mean I'll be increasing their listening time much, though.

88.7 (CIMX) of Windsor/Detroit - 2011

89. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Jr. - "Almost Lost Detroit"
88. Cage the Elephant - "Around My Head"
87. D.R.U.G.S. - "The Only Thing You Talk About"
86. Grouplove - "Colours" (Added recently and it seems like they're sticking it out with this one.)
85. We Came As Romans - "What I Wished I Never Had"
84. The Parlor Mob - "Into the Sun"
83. Black Veil Brides - "Fallen Angels"
82. Atomic Tom - "Take Me Out" (Surprised they were even in on this.)
81. Social Distortion - "Machine Gun Blues" (Never noticed them being in on this, which was actually infuriating considering how much they supported "Reach For the Sky" and "Far Behind" which didn't end up as big as this.)
80. Hollywood Undead - "Levitate"
79. Jasta (featuring Zakk Wylde) - "The Fearless Must Endure" (But why? They never played any Hatebreed, and this couldn't have been that big on Active anyway.)
78. Finger Eleven - "Living In A Dream"
77. Panic! At The Disco - "The Ballad of Mona Lisa"
76. Blue October - "The Chills"
75. Evans Blue - "This Time It's Different"
74. 311 - "Sunset In July"
73. Escape the Fate - "Gorgeous Nightmare"
72. My Darkest Days - "Save Me"
71. Middle Class Rut - "Busy Bein' Born" (First time hearing on the radio.)
70. Every Avenue - "No One But You"
69. Nickelback - "Bottoms Up"
68. Incubus - "Adolescents"
67. Skrillex - "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" (When this and the Korn songs are the only songs of its type on this station, it sounds odd, and gotta be impossible to make those transitions. And then they gotta go into somebody dying...)
66. Airborne Toxic Event - "Changing" (Lol...you never played this.)
65. Staind - "Eyes Wide Open"
64. Death Cab for Cutie - "You Are a Tourist" (Lol...you never played this!)
63. Sum 41 - "Blood In My Eyes"
62. Coldplay - "Paradise" ("Every Teardrop" completely absent and probably never added. Couldn't ignore a #1, I guess.)
61. Shinedown - "Diamond Eyes (Boom-lay Boom)"
60. Anberlin - "Closer" (Peculiar how big Anberlin is on this station and WJBX of Fort Myers which also is very strongly Active. But this was its first radio spin from me as well.)
59. Rise Against - "Satellite"
58. Breaking Benjamin - "Enjoy the Silence" (WTF is this all about???)
57. Linkin Park - "Iridescent"
56. Asking Alexandria - "Someone, Somewhere"
55. The Naked and Famous - "Punching in a Dream" ("Young Blood" is completely absent and never played. I was shocked when this came on. Right after Asking Alexandria, too.)
54. Seether - "Country Song"
53. The Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Look Around" (But no "Monarchy of Roses", although they're spinning that now.)
52. Disturbed - "Hell" (Did they really need a new Disturbed hit so badly that they'd play pick-a-single off their B-sides cash-in?)
51. Jane's Addiction - "Irresistible Force"
50. Taking Back Sunday - "You Got Me"
49. Young The Giant - "My Body"
48. A Day To Remember - "It's Complicated"
47. Five Finger Death Punch - "Under And Over It"
46. My Chemical Romance - "Bulletproof Heart"
45. Foster the People - "Helena Beat"
44. blink-182 - "Heart's All Gone" (This sounded great on the radio.)
43. The Beastie Boys - "Make Some Noise"
42. Switchfoot - "Dark Horses"
41. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - "If I Had A Gun"
40. Theory of a Deadman - "Lowlife"
39. AWOLNATION - "Not Your Fault" (1½ months of airplay gets it this high?)
38. Bleeker Ridge - "You Would've Liked It"
37. Staind - "Not Again"
36. Rise Against - "Help Is On the Way"
35. My Darkest Days - "Every Lie"
34. Korn (featuring Skrillex and Kill the Pain) - "Narcissistic Cannibal"
33. Art Of Dying - "Get Through This"
32. Sick Puppies - "Riptide"
31. The Foo Fighters - "Walk" (But they're still holding out on "These Days".)
30. Redlight King - "Old Man"
29. Sixx: AM - "Lies of the Beautiful People"
28. Cage the Elephant - "Shake Me Down"
27. Hollywood Undead - "Hear Me Now"
26. Evanescence - "What You Want"
25. Bush - "The Sound of Winter"
24. Ghosts of August - "Disease"
23. RED - "Feed the Machine"
22. The Black Keys - "Lonely Boy" (Already?)
21. Silverstein - "Burning Hearts" (First Silverstein track I've noticed them play even though they qualify as "countrymen", which I didn't even realize because it seems to me they would have been all over Silverstein long before post-hardcore's mainstream death.)
20. Chevelle - "Face to the Floor"
19. Ko - "Capable"
18. Thirty Seconds to Mars - "Night of the Hunter" (I finally forgive them now for stonewalling "The Kill" during its entire 70+ week national chart run.)
17. Sum 41 - "Screaming Bloody Murder"
16. Incubus - "Promises, Promises" (This much higher than "Adolescents" at #68, on this type of station?)
15. Theory of a Deadman - "Bitch Came Back"
14. The Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie"
13. D.R.U.G.S. - "Sex Life"
12. Seether - "Tonight"
11. Redlight King - "Bullet In My Hand"
10. Taking Back Sunday - "Faith (When I Let You Down)" (TBS plays 89x's festival shows every single year it seems, so they still treat TBS as highly relevant.)
9. AWOLNATION - "Sail" (Could have been much higher too, if they hadn't waited until September to add this.)
8. Rise Against - "Make It Stop (September's Children)"
7. Foster the People - "Pumped Up Kicks"
6. A Day To Remember - "All Signs Point To Lauderdale" ("I hate this town, it's so messed up, and all my friends don't give a fuff"??? Is this how every station treats that line?)
5. Hollywood Undead - "Been To Hell"
4. Avenged Sevenfold - "So Far Away" (But they, who have had an A7X song at #1 for three of the last four years and even spinned "Unholy Confessions" before anyone knew about them, don't seem to be aware that "Buried Alive" is a hit single.)
3. The Foo Fighters - "Rope"
2. Korn (featuring Skrillex) - "Get Up!"
1. blink-182 - "Up All Night"

Other omissions from the MediaBase top 50 that weren't included last year either:
Mumford and Sons - "The Cave", "Roll Away Your Stone" (I don't think 89x has ever played a Mumford and Sons track, except during last year's countdown when they inexplicably stuck "Little Lion Man" at #60.)
The Black Keys - "Howlin' For You" (Probably overlooked, but inexcusable.)
Florence + The Machine - "Dog Days are Over" (They'll probably never play any Floxie track under any circumstance.)
Sublime with Rome - "Panic" (They did interrupt the countdown to play "Doin' Time" during dead air downtime, though. .)
The Joy Formidable - "Whirring" (They'll never play anything from them, either.)
Cake - "Sick Of You", "Long Time" (No Cake since "Short Skirt/Long Jacket")
Young The Giant - "Cough Syrup" (Might have just forgotten about it.)
The Strokes - "Under Cover of Darkness" (Don't know if they ever played it.)
Adele - "Rolling in the Deep" (Obviously.)
Neon Trees - "1983" (Not surprising.)

[Pipa]

Here's a couple Canadian ones for you. Starting with 102.1 the Edge (CFNY) from Toronto:

1. Foster The People · Pumped Up Kicks
2. AWOLNATION · Sail
3. The Black Keys · Lonely Boy (This high already?)
4. Foo Fighters · Walk
5. Cage The Elephant · Shake Me Down
6. The Black Keys · Howlin' for You
7. Arcade Fire · We Used To Wait
8. Blink-182 · Up All Night
9. Rise Against · Help Is On The Way
10. Linkin Park · Waiting For The End
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers · The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
12. Mumford & Sons · The Cave
13. Young The Giant · My Body
14. Coldplay · Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall
15. Foster The People · Helena Beat
16. Bush · The Sound Of Winter
17. Foo Fighters · Rope
18. The Sheepdogs · I Don't Know
19. Death Cab For Cutie · You Are A Tourist
20. Sam Roberts Band · I Feel You
21. Beastie Boys · Make Some Noise
22. City And Colour · Fragile Bird (This is surprisingly low, considering it's been the biggest hit on our Alt chart since its latest inception.)
23. Coldplay · Paradise
24. Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker · N/A OK
25. Young The Giant · Cough Syrup
26. Crystal Castles feat. Robert Smith · Not In Love
27. Cake · Sick Of You
28. Arkells · Whistleblower
29. The Reason · The Longest Highway Home
30. The Naked And Famous · Young Blood
31. Redlight King · Old Man
32. Foo Fighters · These Days
33. Arcade Fire · The Suburbs
34. City And Colour · Weightless
35. The Joy Formidable · Whirring
36. Hey Rosetta! · Welcome
37. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Monarchy Of Roses
38. Tokyo Police Club · Favourite Colour
39. Jane's Addiction · Irresistible Force
40. Sublime with Rome · Panic
41. The Pack A.D · Sirens
42. Incubus · Adolescents
43. Hollerado · Got To Lose
44. Linkin Park · The Catalyst
45. The Trews · Hope & Ruin
46. Beady Eye · The Roller (Nice to see this up here.)
47. K-os · Holy Cow
48. Finger Eleven · Living In A Dream
49. Middle Class Rut · New Low
50. Mother Mother · The Stand
51. AWOLNATION · Not Your Fault
52. The Reason · Where Do We Go From Here
53. Rise Against · Make It Stop (September's Children)
54. Tokyo Police Club · Bambi
55. Kings Of Leon · Radioactive
56. Sum 41 · Baby You Don't Wanna Know
57. The Airborne Toxic Event · Changing
58. Ko · Capable
59. Florence + The Machine · Shake It Out
60. Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker · Yo Hello Hooray (Everyday)
61. The Black Keys · Next Girl
62. Hollerado · Good Day At The Races
63. Noel Gallagher · If I Had A Gun
64. Diamond Rings · Something Else
65. Blink-182 · After Midnight
66. Dinosaur Bones · N.Y.E.
67. Radiohead · Lotus Flower
68. Finger Eleven · Whatever Doesn't Kill Me
69. The Naked And Famous · Punching In A Dream
70. Mother Mother · Baby Don't Dance
71. Adele · Rolling In The Deep
72. Matthew Good · Zero Orchestra
73. Cage The Elephant · Around My Head
74. Sum 41 · Screaming Bloody Murder (Lower than "Baby You Don't Wanna Know"? I call shenanigans.)
75. Social Distortion · Machine Gun Blues
76. Ko · Moving Mountains
77. Muse · Undisclosed Desires
78. 311 · Sunset In July
79. Neverending White Lights feat. Hot Hot Heat · Ghost Ship
80. Mumford & Sons · Roll Away Your Stone
81. Sam Roberts Band · Without A Map
82. My Chemical Romance · Sing
83. The Black Keys · Tighten Up
84. Bedouin Soundclash · Elongo
85. Temper Trap · Fader
86. Foster The People · Don't Stop (Color On The Walls)
87. Gotye · Somebody That I Used to Know
88. Rise Against · Satellite
89. Cage The Elephant · Aberdeen
90. Two Door Cinema Club · What You Know
91. Big Wreck · Albatross
92. Bombay Bicycle Club · Shuffle
93. Diamond Rings · Wait And See
94. Jane's Addiction · End To The Lies
95. Tokyo Police Club · Little Sister (Non-single QOTSA cover? Okay.)
96. Evanescence · What You Want
97. Young Empires · White Doves
98. Brother UK · Darling Buds Of May
99. The Sheepdogs · Who
100. Hollywood Undead · Hear Me Now
101. Said The Whale · Heavy Ceiling
102. The Dirty Heads · Stand Tall

And Sonic 102.9 (CHDI) from Edmonton:

102. JACK SPARROW – THE LONELY ISLAND (WTF.)
101. THE LONGEST HIGHWAY HOME – THE REASON

100. NEXT GIRL – THE BLACK KEYS
99. MY BEST THEORY – JIMMY EAT WORLD
98. IN A PLACE OF LESSER MEN – MATTHEW GOOD
97. STAY YOUNG, GO DANCING – DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
96. THE DEVIL IN STICHES – BAD RELIGION
95. DOG DAYS ARE OVER – FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
94. DEAR ROSEMARY – FOO FIGHTERS (They never played this.)
93. MICHIGAN LEFT – ARKELLS
92. AROUND MY HEAD – CAGE THE ELEPHANT
91. NOT YOUR FAULT – AWOLNATION

90. IF I HAD A GUN – NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS
89. ALL I WANT – A DAY TO REMEMBER
88. SOMETHING ELSE – DIAMOND RINGS
87. LITTLE LION MAN – MUMFORD AND SONS
86. SING – MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
85. DON’T PLAY NO GAME THAT I CAN’T WIN – BEASTIE BOYS FT. SANTIGOLD
84. MANY OF HORROR – BIFFY CLYRO
83. BABY YOU DON’T WANNA KNOW – SUM 41
82. FAVOURITE COLOUR – TOKYO POLICE CLUB
81. EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL – COLDPLAY

80. MONARCHY OF ROSES – RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
79. TOO COLD – CURRENT SWELL
78. IRRESISTIBLE FORCE – JANE’S ADDICTION
77. RADIOACTIVE – KINGS OF LEON
76. DON’T SIT DOWN ‘CAUSE I’VE MOVED YOUR CHAIR – ARCTIC MONKEYS
75. AFTER MIDNIGHT – BLINK 182
74. SHAKE IT OUT – FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
73. NEW EARTH – ZERBIN
72. ABERDEEN – CAGE THE ELEPHANT
71. OLD MAN – REDLIGHT KING

70. SIRENS – THE PACK A.D.
69. MEMORIES – WEEZER
68. ALBATROSS – BIG WRECK
67. SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW – GOTYE FT. KIMBRA
66. TAKEN FOR A FOOL – THE STROKES
65. GOOD DAY AT THE RACES – HOLLERADO
64. ROWS OF HOUSES – DAN MANGAN
63. COLOURS – GROUPLOVE
62. YOUNG CLASSICS – TEN SECOND EPIC
61. THE HIGH ROAD – BROKEN BELLS (In 2011? Really?)
60. THESE DAYS – FOO FIGHTERS

59. SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER – SUM 41
58. MAKE SOME NOISE – BEASTIE BOYS
57. YO HELLO HOORAY – UBIQUITOUS SYNERGY SEEKER
56. UP ALL NIGHT – BLINK 182
55. PUNCHING IN A DREAM – THE NAKED AND FAMOUS
54. LOST IN YOU – THREE DAYS GRACE
53. TIGHTEN UP – THE BLACK KEYS
52. WEIGHTLESS – CITY AND COLOUR
51. COUGH SYRUP – YOUNG THE GIANT

50. HAYLOFT – MOTHER MOTHER
49. THE SOUND OF WINTER – BUSH
48. YOU GOT ME – CRASH KINGS
47. GET SOME – LYKKE LI
46. MAKE IT STOP (SEPTEMBER’S CHILDREN) – RISE AGAINST
45. THE LAST CRUSADE – SAM ROBERTS BAND
44. REACTION – ACRES OF LIONS
43. PANIC – SUBLIME WITH ROME
42. HOME – EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
41. ROLL AWAY YOUR STONE – MUMFORD AND SONS
40. LONG TIME – CAKE

39. WHISTLEBLOWER – ARKELLS
38. PARADISE – COLDPLAY
37. READY TO START – ARCADE FIRE
36. LONELY BOY – THE BLACK KEYS
35. NOT IN LOVE – CRYSTAL CASTLES FT. ROBERT SMITH
34. I DON’T KNOW – THE SHEEPDOGS
33. THE GHOST INSIDE – BROKEN BELLS
32. SICK OF YOU – CAKE
31. THE ADVENTURES OF RAINDANCE MAGGIE – RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

30. ZERO ORCHESTRA – MATTHEW GOOD
29. MACHINE GUN BLUES – SOCIAL DISTORTION
28. STADIUM LOVE – METRIC
27. HELP IS ON THE WAY – RISE AGAINST
26. BABY DON’T DANCE – MOTHER MOTHER
25. WAITING FOR THE END – LINKIN PARK
24. UNDERCOVER OF DARKNESS – THE STROKES
23. BAMBI – TOKYO POLICE CLUB
22. NEW LOW – MIDDLE CLASS RUT
21. BLACK HISTORY MONTH – METRIC (Surprisingly high for a Death From Above 1979 cover they played sparingly.)

20. THE DEAD HEART – ALEXISONFIRE
19. HELENA BEAT – FOSTER THE PEOPLE
18. LOUDER THAN EVER – COLD WAR KIDS
17. WHIRRING – THE JOY FORMIDABLE
16. THE CAVE – MUMFORD AND SONS
15. FRAGILE BIRD – CITY AND COLOUR
14. WE USED TO WAIT – ARCADE FIRE
13. WALK – FOO FIGHTERS
12. THE STAND – MOTHER MOTHER
11. SHAKE ME DOWN – CAGE THE ELEPHANT

10. YOU ARE A TOURIST – DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
9. TORNADO ’87 – THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE
8. N/A OK – UBIQUITOUS SYNERGY SEEKER
7. HOWLIN’ FOR YOU – THE BLACK KEYS
6. I FEEL YOU – SAM ROBERTS BAND
5. SAIL – AWOLNATION
4. ROPE – FOO FIGHTERS
3. YOUNG BLOOD – THE NAKED AND FAMOUS
2. MY BODY – YOUNG THE GIANT
1. PUMPED UP KICKS – FOSTER THE PEOPLE

[American Idiot]

I don't believe my local active station WJRR had a year-end countdown cause they're lame. I'm sure my old completely awesome station where I used to live down south, WPBZ, would have had one as they always did in the past. However, they flipped to Hot AC right before the year ended :(

[Pipa]

Jan 4, 2012 18:56:06 GMT -5 American Idiot said:

I'm sure my old completely awesome station where I used to live down south, WPBZ, would have had one as they always did in the past. However, they flipped to Hot AC right before the year ended :(

That and the loss of WKQX were the biggest shockers to me this year. If they have to axe Alt stations, why the good ones?

[coldstar]

I wouls have place "Make It Stop" from Rise Against much higher and I'm desapointed that 2 countdowns on 3 shown above hasn't consider it. It's sad because that song has a wonderful message and an awesome vid. Sometimes I think they place the songs based on the taste of the MD and on the beat more then on what the song really means. Beat is important, yes, but do not forget the lyrics also !

[friday]

I would've started the thread myself, but when I went to KNDD's website to see when they were airing their top 107, I saw absolutely no mention that they were doing any sort of countdown for New Year's weekend. That's especially disappointing, considering the last couple of years they only did 2000's countdowns instead of year-enders. So to not do anything this year just smacks of cheapness.

[Nicholas2.0]

Jan 4, 2012 15:09:12 GMT -5 crash46 said:

Well, we usually do these every year and I don't see one yet, so have at it!

I kept diligent track of mine and would've posted it immediately if there had been a topic ready. So thanks for starting this.

I would've loved to have heard these on the radio, even if if I'm not necessarily huge on all these bands:

Jan 4, 2012 15:09:12 GMT -5 crash46 said:

89. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Jr. - "Almost Lost Detroit"
87. D.R.U.G.S. - "The Only Thing You Talk About"
85. We Came As Romans - "What I Wished I Never Had"
83. Black Veil Brides - "Fallen Angels"
79. Jasta (featuring Zakk Wylde) - "The Fearless Must Endure"
73. Escape the Fate - "Gorgeous Nightmare"
70. Every Avenue - "No One But You"
69. Nickelback - "Bottoms Up"
67. Skrillex - "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" (When this and the Korn songs are the only songs of its type on this station, it sounds odd, and gotta be impossible to make those transitions. And then they gotta go into somebody dying...)
63. Sum 41 - "Blood In My Eyes"
56. Asking Alexandria - "Someone, Somewhere"
55. The Naked and Famous - "Punching in a Dream" ("Young Blood" is completely absent and never played. I was shocked when this came on. Right after Asking Alexandria, too.) (And then right back into a Seether song surely made it seem even more out of place.)
53. The Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Look Around"
52. Disturbed - "Hell" (Did they really need a new Disturbed hit so badly that they'd play pick-a-single off their B-sides cash-in?) (This was actually the promoted single.)
50. Taking Back Sunday - "You Got Me"
48. A Day To Remember - "It's Complicated"
45. Foster the People - "Helena Beat"
44. blink-182 - "Heart's All Gone" (This sounded great on the radio.) (I bet!)
41. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - "If I Had A Gun"
29. Sixx: AM - "Lies of the Beautiful People"
21. Silverstein - "Burning Hearts"
18. Thirty Seconds to Mars - "Night of the Hunter"
13. D.R.U.G.S. - "Sex Life"
10. Taking Back Sunday - "Faith (When I Let You Down)"

Florence + The Machine - "Dog Days are Over" (They'll probably never play any Floxie track under any circumstance.) (Floxie? Never heard that before.)

I can't tolerate my Alternative station to listen much beyond a few minutes at a time anymore without getting fed up with all the dinosaur songs I never need to hear again and the mediocre Active Rock songs in place of the actual Alternative songs they don't play that I'd rather hear, not to mention the long ad breaks. But they're still far and away my favorite local FM station and it's been my tradition for the past 5 years on New Year's Day to enjoy myself at home after working all night New Year's Eve, spending all day listening to their year-end countdown in its entirety, whipping up a list in advance of everything I'm expecting to hear and following along. There's nothing in the world I'd rather do on New Year's Day. I even leave the volume up during the songs I don't care for and would otherwise change the station on in any other circumstance. I don't mind a bit, listening to them one last time. I don't know if it's the serious health issues I'm going through right now (hence why I'm able to post so much more frequently this past week or two), but listening to the countdown this year was just as enjoyable as ever, if not more so. I loved every minute of it.

KPNT's Top 105 of 2011:

1. 10 Years “Fix Me”
2. Cage the Elephant “Shake Me Down”
3. Greek Fire “Doesn’t Matter Anyway” (Local band featuring Phil Sneed and Ryan Phillips from Story of the Year)
4. Rise Against “Help Is on the Way”
5. The Black Keys “Howlin’ for You”
6. Rise Against “Make It Stop (September’s Children)”
7. Seether “Tonight”
8. Middle Class Rut “New Low”
9. Hollywood Undead “Hear Me Now”
10. Seether “Country Song”
11. Staind “Not Again”
12. Papa Roach “Burn”
13. Red Hot Chili Peppers “The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie”
14. Avenged Sevenfold “Welcome to the Family”
15. Foo Fighters “Rope”
16. Switchfoot “Dark Horses”
17. Disturbed “The Animal”
18. AWOLNATION “Sail”
19. Bush “The Sound of Winter”
20. Incubus “Adolescents”
21. Middle Class Rut “Busy Bein’ Born”
22. Linkin Park “Waiting for the End”
23. Alter Bridge “Isolation”
24. Foo Fighters “Walk”
25. Alter Bridge “Ghost of Days Gone By”
26. The Urge “Say Yeah” (First new single since 2000 from local heroes)
27. Disturbed “Warrior”
28. Cake “Sick of You”
29. 311 “Sunset in July”
30. Avenged Sevenfold “Buried Alive”
31. Evanescence “What You Want”
32. Chevelle “Face to the Floor”
33. Cavo “Thick as Thieves” (Local boys, of course)
34. Cake “Long Time”
35. Everlast “I Get By”
36. Korn feat. Skrillex “Get Up!”
37. Avenged Sevenfold “So Far Away”
38. Hollywood Undead “Been to Hell”
39. Foo Fighters “These Days”
40. Cage the Elephant “Aberdeen”
41. 10 Years “Shoot It Out”
42. Brookroyal feat. Clint Lowery “Jump” (Local band)
43. Five Finger Death Punch “Under and Over It”
44. Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights “Gypsy Woman”
45. My Chemical Romance “Sing”
46. Jimmy Eat World “My Best Theory”
47. Blink-182 “Up All Night”
48. Sublime with Rome “Panic”
49. The Black Keys “Tighten Up”
50. The Damned Things “We’ve Got a Situation Here”
51. Adelitas Way “Sick”
52. The Black Keys “Lonely Boy”
53. Cage the Elephant “Around My Head”
54. Finger Eleven “Living in a Dream”
55. Mastodon “Curl of the Burl”
56. Redlight King “Old Man”
57. Pop Evil “Last Man Standing”
58. Linkin Park “Iridescent”
59. All That Remains “The Last Time”
60. Korn feat. Skrillex & Kill the Noise “Narcissistic Cannibal”
61. Volbeat “A Warrior’s Call”
62. Beastie Boys “Make Some Noise”
63. All That Remains “Hold On”
64. Blue October “The Chills”
65. 311 “Count Me In”
66. A Day to Remember “All I Want”
67. Kyng “Falling Down”
68. Hail the Villain “Runaway”
69. My Darkest Days “Porn Star Dancing”
70. Rise Against “Satellite”
71. Red Hot Chili Peppers “Monarchy of Roses”
72. Sleeper Agent “Get It Daddy”
73. Jane’s Addiction “Irresistible Force”
74. Young the Giant “My Body”
75. Social Distortion “Machine Gun Blues”
76. Volbeat “Fallen”
77. Theory of a Deadman “Lowlife”
78. The Joy Formidable “Whirring”
79. Blink-182 “After Midnight”
80. Bullet for My Valentine “Your Betrayal”
81. Shinedown “Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)”
82. Avenged Sevenfold “Nightmare”
83. Cake “Mustache Man (Wasted)”
84. Stone Sour “Hesitate”
85. The Strokes “Under Cover of Darkness”
86. Deftones “You’ve Seen the Butcher”
87. Sum 41 “Screaming Bloody Murder”
88. Kings of Leon “Radioactive”
89. Hollywood Undead “Bullet”
90. My Chemical Romance “Bulletproof Heart”
91. Young the Giant “Cough Syrup”
92. Staind “Eyes Wide Open”
93. AWOLNATION “Not Your Fault”
94. Five Finger Death Punch “Remember Everything”
95. Mute Math “Blood Pressure”
96. Grouplove “Colours”
97. The Parlor Mob “Into the Sun”
98. Incubus “Promises, Promises”
99. Jane’s Addiction “Underground”
100. Papa Roach “No Matter What”
101. Sublime with Rome “Take It or Leave It”
102. Deftones “Diamond Eyes”
103. Stone Sour “Say You’ll Haunt Me”
104. The Joy Formidable “A Heavy Abacus”
105. Foster the People “Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls)”

I love that all four of Avenged Sevenfold's Nightmare singles (rightfully) made the chart. KPNT is very good to them, which helps me offset the more lunkheaded Active Rock songs they play.

As always, they frustratingly never get the list 100% right, though it's pretty much based on their YTD airplay. But guys like us care way more about the accuracy of these lists than the people who actually work at the radio stations. Each year there are always about 4 songs that I'm still expecting by the Top 10 or 20 that never turn up. This year, those four were, in order of my perception of how often they were played, Three Days Grace "Lost in You," Sick Puppies "Riptide," Papa Roach "Kick in the Teeth" and 30 Seconds to Mars "Closer to the Edge." I wouldn't have batted an eye if "Lost in You" had come in at #2. For all 4 of those songs to be missing from the list, especially when they still bothered leaving in "Diamond Eyes" and "Say You'll Haunt Me" for 2011 down at #102 & 103 is pretty poor. But you just gotta let that kinda stuff go and appreciate that they even make a countdown for the avid listeners at the end of each year. :)

[Nicholas2.0]

Would've loved to hear these songs on the radio, too.

Jan 4, 2012 18:38:10 GMT -5 Pipa said:

7. Arcade Fire · We Used To Wait
22. City And Colour · Fragile Bird
26. Crystal Castles feat. Robert Smith · Not In Love
30. The Naked And Famous · Young Blood
33. Arcade Fire · The Suburbs
34. City And Colour · Weightless
44. Linkin Park · The Catalyst (This didn't even make KPNT's list last year. :()
46. Beady Eye · The Roller
56. Sum 41 · Baby You Don't Wanna Know
59. Florence + The Machine · Shake It Out
61. The Black Keys · Next Girl
67. Radiohead · Lotus Flower
77. Muse · Undisclosed Desires
85. Temper Trap · Fader
90. Two Door Cinema Club · What You Know
94. Jane's Addiction · End To The Lies
102. The Dirty Heads · Stand Tall

102. JACK SPARROW – THE LONELY ISLAND
97. STAY YOUNG, GO DANCING – DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
96. THE DEVIL IN STITCHES – BAD RELIGION
94. DEAR ROSEMARY – FOO FIGHTERS
85. DON’T PLAY NO GAME THAT I CAN’T WIN – BEASTIE BOYS FT. SANTIGOLD
84. MANY OF HORROR – BIFFY CLYRO
76. DON’T SIT DOWN ‘CAUSE I’VE MOVED YOUR CHAIR – ARCTIC MONKEYS
66. TAKEN FOR A FOOL – THE STROKES
47. GET SOME – LYKKE LI
37. READY TO START – ARCADE FIRE
33. THE GHOST INSIDE – BROKEN BELLS
28. STADIUM LOVE – METRIC
20. THE DEAD HEART – ALEXISONFIRE

[American Idiot]

Jan 4, 2012 19:39:46 GMT -5 Pipa said:

That and the loss of WKQX were the biggest shockers to me this year. If they have to axe Alt stations, why the good ones?

Yeah, there's been many over the last few years axed. Sad to look at how many Alternative stations were on the format ten years ago compared to now.

WPBZ's ratings were falling over the last few years. I blame it on the program director playing too many recurrents at the top of their playlist, but who knows. Anyway, back in the Spring of last year and around the time I moved up here to Orlando, an Active station in Miami flipped to AC and since part of WPBZ's (which is based in the West Palm market) territory overlaps into Miami's market, they decided to take advantage of that and flip to Active with the same DJs and such. That angered a lot of the station's fans such as myself since they played a very high number of classic rock songs and they have two classic rock stations already in South Florida. As you could expect, the numbers dropped even more, which is why they flipped to Hot AC.

The station is still available on an live online stream, in which they kept most of the same DJs, some who have been there since the station started 16 years ago. I didn't give it any listen since they flipped because I was so upset about it. However, I decided to give the stream a chance today at work because I saw on their Facebook that they were giving away a Chevelle signed guitar or something. I was shocked. It was freaking awesome. They went back to their old Alternative roots were playing the absolute best mix and variety of new and old Alternative Rock that I could have imagined. I ended up listening to whole day and certainly plan to at work on Monday. A perfect example of what an Alternative station SHOULD sound like. It really pissed me off that they were taken off the air with all of that great music that they're playing now, but thank god for the Internet :)

[Pipa]

Here's a top 101 from my former (Alt-leaning) rock station, Mix 101 (CHQX) from Prince Albert. They stopped posting these, so I'm glad they started again.

1. Foo Fighters – Rope
2. Cage The Elephant – Shake Me Down
3. My Darkest Days – Porn Star Dancing
4. Young The Giant – My Body
5. Foo Fighters – Walk
6. Three Days Grace – Lost In You
7. Seether – Country Song
8. Black Keys – Howlin' For You
9. Trews – Hope & Ruin
10. Theory Of A Deadman – Lowlife
11. Red Hot Chilli Peppers – The Adventures of Raindance Maggie
12. Black Keys – Tighten Up
13. Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks
14. Rise Against – Help Is On The Way
15. Finger Eleven – Whatever Doesn’t Kill Me
16. Sam Roberts – I Feel You
17. Finger Eleven – Pieces Fit
18. Slash – Ghost
19. The Reason – The Longest Highway Home
20. Sixx A.M. – Lies Of The Beautiful People
21. Kings of Leon – Radioactive
22. Sheepdogs – I Don’t Know
23. Stonesour – Say You’ll Haunt Me
24. Neon Trees – Animal
25. Awolnation – Sail
26. Sloan – Unkind
27. Bush – Sound Of Winter
28. Coldplay – Every Teardrop is a Waterfall
29. Three Days Grace – World So Cold
30. Finger Eleven – Living In A Dream
31. Jonas and the Massive Attraction – Big Slice
32. Bleeker Ridge – Small Town Dead
33. Crash Kings – Mountain Man
34. Sublime With Rome - Panic
35. Arkells – Whistleblower
36. Saving Abel – The Sex Is Good
37. Big Sugar – Roads Ahead
38. Nickelback – Bottoms Up
39. Foster The People – Helena Beat
40. Jane’s Addiction – Irresistible Force
41. Chevelle – Face To The Floor
42. Adele – Rolling In The Deep
43. Blink 182 – Up All Night
44. Hinder – All American Nightmare
45. Anberlin – Closer
46. Jane’s Addiction – End To The Lies
47. Rise Against – Make It Stop
48. Matthew Good – Zero Orchestra
49. My Darkest Days – Move Your Body
50. Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
51. Sheepdogs – Who?
52. Sum 41 – Screaming Bloody Murder
53. Bleeker Ridge - Sick Of You
54. Linkin Park – Waiting For The End
55. Death Cab For Cutie – You Are A Tourist
56. Incubus – Adolescents
57. Papa Roach – Burn
58. Shinedown – Diamond Eyes
59. My Chemical Romance – Sing
60. Kopek – Cocaine Chest Pains
61. Nickelback – When We Stand Together
62. Redlight King – Old Man
63. Alter Bridge – Isolation
64. Staind – Not Again
65. Disturbed – The Animal
66. Alter Bridge – Ghost Of Days Gone By
67. Black Keys – Lonely Boy
68. Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Monarchy of Roses
69. Big Wreck – Albatross
70. Coldplay – Paradise
71. City & Color – Weightless
72. Rival Sons – Pressure and Time
73. Young The Giant – Cough Syrup
74. Hollerado – Good Day At The Races
75. City & Colour – Fragile Bird
76. Ozzy Osbourne – Life Won’t Wait
77. Five Finger Death Punch – Bad Company
78. Theory Of A Deadman – Chick Came Back
79. Pack AD – Sirens
80. Evanescence – What You Want
81. Colin James – It’s Gonna Be Alright
82. Naked & Famous – Punching In A Dream
83. Sam Roberts – Without A Map
84. Trews – World I Know
85. Sum 41 – Baby Don't You Wanna Know
86. Rush – BU2B
87. Theory Of A Deadman – Little Smirk
88. Pearl Jam – Amongst The Waves
89. Shinedown – The Crow & The Butterfly
90. Slash – Back From Cali
91. Against Me – I was A Teenage Anarchist
92. Awolnation – Not Your Fault
93. Cage The Elephant – Aberdeen
94. Naked & Famous – Young Blood
95. Jonas & The Massive Attraction – Seize The Day
96. Hedley – One Life
97. Joy Formidable – A Heavy Abacus
98. Trews – Coming Home
99. Evanescence – My Heart Is Broken
100. Florence & The Machine – Shake It Out
101. New Cities – The Hype

I can't believe I'm just an hour and a half away from this. If my station had half this variety, I'd be happy.