Pulse Official Best-Of 2016 Rock Songs

[Troy]

Thank you to everyone who submitted your year-end lists.  I've just finished tabulating the results...but I am going to reveal the songs a few at a time so you will keep coming back.  There are quite a few songs i've never heard before in this year's list, so lots of new discoveries to be had.  Don't see your favorites?  Think some of these songs are too high or too low?  Then submit your year-end list to me next year so your musical tastes can be included.

The Pulse Rock 200 of 2016
* I will be revealing a few songs per day until i unveil the #1 song on NYE

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Good Grief	Bastille
2	Dark Necessities	Red Hot Chili Peppers
3	Bang Bang	Green Day
4	Bored To Death	Blink 182
5	Circadian Rhythm (Last Dance)	Silversun Pickups
6	Go Robot	Red Hot Chili Peppers
7	Way Down We Go	Kaleo
8	Move	Saint Motel
9	You Don't Get Me High Anymore	Phantogram
10	Going The Distance	Zipper Club
11	Free	BROODS
12	Trouble	Cage The Elephant
13	Heathens	twenty-one pilots
14	Waste A Moment	Kings Of Leon
15	Run Or Hide	Run River North
16	Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)	Death Cab For Cutie
17	10,000 Emerald Pools	BØRNS
18	Latchkey Kids	Silversun Pickups
19	Saint Cecilia	Foo Fighters
20	Ride	twenty-one-pilots
21	All We Ever Knew	Head And The Heart
22	Tearing Me Up	Bob Moses
23	Wake Up Call	Nothing But Thieves
24	Black Honey	Thrice
25	Spirits	The Strumbellas
26	Square Hammer	Ghost
27	Life Itself	Glass Animals
28	Victorious	Panic! At The Disco
29	Clearest Blue	CHVRCHES
30	Burn The Witch	Radiohead
31	Lazarus	David Bowie
32	King Of The World	Weezer
33	Take It From Me	KONGOS
34	Blood In The Cut	K Flay
35	Go!	M83
36	Born Again Teen	Lucius
37	River	Bishop Briggs
38	Woman Woman	Awolnation
39	Ophelia	The Lumineers
40	Something To Believe In	Young The Giant
41	Somebody Else	The 1975
42	Talk Too Much	COIN
43	Wow	Beck
44	Sure And Certain	Jimmy Eat World
45	Put Your Money On Me	The Struts
46	Prophets Of Rage	Prophets Of Rage
47	Stockholm	Atlas Genius
48	Ghost In My Head	Andrew Watt
49	Welcome To Your Life	Grouplove
50	Genghis Khan	Miike Snow
51	New Song	Warpaint
52	Are We Ready? (Wreck)	Two Door Cinema Club
53	Fire	Barns Courtney
54	Livin In A Studio	Freeweights
55	Sound Of Silence	Disturbed
56	Hymn For The Weekend	Coldplay
57	Boyfriend	Tegan & Sara
58	You And I	PVRIS
59	Daydreaming	Radiohead
60	When We Were Young	Adele
61	Joyride (Omen)	Chevelle
62	Doing It To Death	The Kills
63	Walking On A Dream	Empire Of The Sun
64	High And Low	Empire Of The Sun
65	This Girl	Kungs
66	Switchblade	Holy White Hounds
67	Still Breathing	Green Day
68	Roll Up	Fitz & The Tantrums
69	Fire And The Flood	Vance Joy
70	Destruction	Joywave
71	Phantom Bride	Deftones
72	My Trigger	Miike Snow
73	No Good	Kaleo
74	Bury It	CHVRCHES
75	Devil's Bleeding Crown	Volbeat
76	Gone	Jr Jr
77	Prayers/Triangles	Deftones
78	Thank God For Girls	Weezer
79	Stop Desire	Tegan & Sara
80	Bloodfeather	Highly Suspect
81	Casual Party	Band Of Horses
82	2AM	Bear Hands
83	Never Ending Circles	CHVRCHES
84	Wish I Knew You	Revivalists
85	Anointed	Blaqk Audio
86	Afraid Of Heights	Billy Talent
87	Stage	Avenged Sevenfold
88	Snow Cats	AFI
89	Last Thing On My Mind	Joy Formidable
90	High Dive	Andrew McMahon
91	When I Wake Up Tomorrow	Cheap Trick
92	Kill v Maim	Grimes
93	In The Dark	3 Doors Down
94	Don't You Give Up On Me	Lissie
95	Under The Influence	Elle King
96	Ditmas	Mumford & Sons
97	Take Me Down	Pretty Reckless
98	Critical Mistakes	888
99	Gardenia	Iggy Pop
100	Monument	MUTEMATH
101	Higher	Naked & Famous
102	Call Off Your Dogs	Lake Street Drive
103	Do It, Try It	M83
104	Loaded Dice & Buried Money	Tyler Bryant & Shakedown
105	Love Song	Ladyhawke
106	HandClap	Fitz & Tantrums
107	Show Me A Leader	Alter Bridge
108	Open Your Eyes	Disturbed
109	She's Out Of Her Mind	Blink 182
110	Cake By The Ocean	DNCE
111	Send My Love (To Your New Lover)	Adele
112	Impossible	Lacey Strum
113	Giving Up On You	Wild Belle
114	Betty Blue	PHASES
115	Red Flag	Moth & The Flame
116	Heart Of A Dog	The Kills
117	Soundcheck	Catfish & The Bottlemen
118	Let's Go	Def Leppard
119	Happiness	IAMX
120	Vowels	Capital Cities
121	Dangerous	Def Leppard
122	Gloria	Dear Hunter
123	You Want It Darker	Leonard Cohen
124	Amnesia	Red Sun Rising
125	Hardwired	Metallica
126	Moth Into Flame	Metallica
127	Liana	Joy Formidable
128	More Than You	Class Actress
129	Roman Sky	Avenged Sevenfold
130	Bad Decisions	Two Door Cinema Club
131	Cleopatra	Lumineers
132	It's All Devo	Gerald Casale
133	Ghosts	Soviet
134	Burning Wings	Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
135	Sound	The 1975
136	Brazil	Declan McKenna
137	Monster	Starset
138	U-Turn	Tegan & Sara
139	My Name Is Human	Highly Suspect
140	Someday	We Are Harlot
141	La Prison	Mana
142	Buckle	We Are Scientists
143	Tantalized	Fever High
144	Howls	Agent Fresco
145	Perfect End	Altas Genius
146	Year Zero	Moon Taxi
147	We Belong	Def Leppard
148	Elevator Operator	Courtney Barnett
149	Someone Like U	Dal*Shabet
150	Finally Free	Stitched Up Heart
151	Let It Roll	Ladyhawke
152	Capsized	Andrew Bird
153	Gamblin Man	Smashing Satellites
154	Boy Problems	Carly Rae Jepsen
155	Brace For Impact (Live A Little)	Sturgill Simpson
156	Some Kind Of Heaven	HURTS
157	Fever	Roosevelt
158	Pop Kids	Pet Shop Boys
159	I Can't Give Everything Away	David Bowie
160	Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time	Panic! At The Disco
161	Face Cream	Simon I
162	I Love You For Psychological Reasons	They Might Be Giants
163	Kid Who Stays In The Picture	Hot Hot Heat
164	Rabbits Foot	Turbowolf
165	Off The Ground	Record Company
166	Hometown Life	Sully Erna
167	It's Different For Girls	Of Montreal
168	I Took A Pill In Ibiza	Mike Posner
169	Campus	Bastille
170	Limerent Death	Dillinger Escape Plan
171	Ginger Ale	Maudlin Strangers
172	Future Pleasures	WHITE
173	Cocoon	Milky Chance
174	Sikka Takin The Hard Way	New Beat Fund
175	Circles	Pierce The Veil
176	Silly Me	Yeasayer
177	Lover Come Back	City And Colour
178	Blame	Bastille
179	Favorite Liar	Wrecks
180	Monster	Reckless Love
181	Fashion	Royal Concept
182	Never Going Back	Caveman
183	Stay In My Sight	New Arcades
184	Redshift	Enter Shikari
185	Where The Light Gets In (f/ Sky Ferreira)	Primal Scream
186	In The Night	The Weeknd
187	She's American	The 1975
188	Mira Como Vuelo	Miss Caffeina
189	Shape Shifter	They Might Be Giants
190	Youth Without Love	Har Mar Superstar
191	Start It Up	Ziggy Marley
192	Hey, No Pressure	Ray LaMontagne
193	Heart Of Me	Miike Snow
194	Automatic	Simon I
195	Devil Is A Lonely Night	Pierces
196	Empty	Garbage
197	Wristband	Paul Simon
198	Fire And Water	Ace Frehley
199	My Name Is Loneliness	Hawaiian6
200	Gemini Feed	BANKS

[maine]

fuck i forgot about this

[Troy]

These 34 songs that were submitted this year are ineligible because they were in last year's Top 200:

Kiss This Struts
Less I Know The Better Tame Impala
Mountain At My Gates Foals
Reapers Muse
Dancing On Glass St Lucia
Trip Switch Nothing But Thieves
From The Pinnacle To The Pit Ghost
Love Me 1975
Flesh Without Blood Grimes
Light Disturbed
What Went Down Foals
Return To The Moon EL VY
Nightlight Silversun Pickups
Pretty Pimpin Kurt Vile
Mess Around Cage The Elephant
Molecules Atlas Genius
Lights On Big Grams
Stressed Out Twenty One Pilots
Unsteady X Ambassadors
Magnets Disclosure
Hello Adele
Mercy Muse
Adventure Of A Lifetime Coldplay
King Kunta Kendrick Lamar
Lemon Eyes Meg Myers
Wasted Love City And Colour
I Feel Love (Every Million Miles) Dead Weather
Next Storm Frank Turner
Lydia Highly Suspect
Cigarettes & Saints Wonder Years
Leave A Trace CHVRCHES
Blackstar David Bowie
Forgive & Forget Kooks
Restless New Order

[Troy]

Here are our Top 100 Artists of 2016 based upon your submissions (with total points at the right side). By the way, the list of artists does include the songs from last year that are ineligible to chart again this year):

1 Red Hot Chili Peppers 1,970
2 Silversun Pickups 1,798
3 Bastille 1,707
4 Twenty One Pilots 1,456
5 Green Day 1,394
6 Struts 1,368
7 CHVRCHES 1,313
8 1975 1,278
9 Kaleo 1,206
10 Blink 182 1,191
11 Nothing But Thieves 1,095
12 Ghost 1,052
13 Disturbed 973
14 Foals 950
15 Miike Snow 919
16 Cage The Elephant 918
17 Radiohead 911
18 Adele 893
19 Tegan & Sara 893
20 Panic! At The Disco 867
21 Saint Motel 834
22 Weezer 832
23 Deftones 820
24 Atlas Genius 816
25 BROODS 784
26 Muse 744
27 M83 744
28 Phantogram 737
29 David Bowie 735
30 Def Leppard 732
31 Thrice 731
32 Strumbellas 728
33 Empire Of The Sun 715
34 Coldplay 684
35 Zipper Club 684
36 Kills 669
37 Lumineers 660
38 Kings Of Leon 660
39 BØRNS 656
40 Run River North 647
41 Death Cab For Cutie 631
42 Foo Fighters 617
43 Fitz & The Tantrums 592
44 Head & The Heart 588
45 Two Door Cinema Club 586
46 Young The Giant 582
47 Bob Moses 575
48 St Lucia 563
49 Tame Impala 554
50 Highly Suspect 552
51 Glass Animals 551
52 Grimes 528
53 Metallica 527
54 Chevelle 518
55 Avenged Sevenfold 514
56 Joy Formidable 504
57 KONGOS 499
58 They Might Be Giants 494
59 K Flay 490
60 Ladyhawke 480
61 Lucius 480
62 Bishop Briggs 474
63 AWOLNATION 471
64 Volbeat 465
65 Andrew McMahon 460
66 Cheap Trick 458
67 Beck 456
68 Jimmy Eat World 452
69 Grouplove 448
70 EL VY 447
71 AFI 446
72 Prophets Of Rage 443
73 Andrew Watt 437
74 COIN 430
75 Weeknd 427
76 Dreamers 419
77 Warpaint 397
78 Barns Courtney 395
79 Free Weights 394
80 PVRIS 372
81 Kungs 357
82 Catfish & The Bottlemen 353
83 Holy White Hounds 351
84 Red Sun Rising 350
85 Vance Joy 348
86 X Ambassadors 346
87 Elle King 342
88 Simon I 338
89 Joywave 336
90 JR JR 330
91 Billy Talent 325
92 Band Of Horses 325
93 Blaqk Audio 321
94 City And Colour 321
95 Revivalists 320
96 Bear Hands 313
97 3 Doors Down 308
98 Lissie 305
99 Kurt Vile 298
100 Meg Myers 292

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

This is getting off to a great start. I can already see some of my indie vibes on the chart. I also think it was a good idea to leave off those 2015 songs. More room for new material.

[timmierz]

Heh, the power of one person's submissions is showing itself - several songs from what's shown already, I'm pretty sure no one but me included. :)

[Troy]

Dec 19, 2016 13:38:53 GMT -5 timmierz said:

Heh, the power of one person's submissions is showing itself - several songs from what's shown already, I'm pretty sure no one but me included. :)

that's one of the reasons i like having a Top200 (instead of just 100) to see some of these songs I've yet to discover.

[Troy]

tomorrow i will complete the bottom half of the list & then starting on the 22nd i will reveal 10 songs per day with details & photos

[Red]

139 My Name Is Human Highly Suspect

Okay, I'm calling shenanigans. No way this is THAT low...right?

[Troy]

Dec 20, 2016 10:46:08 GMT -5 Red said:

139 My Name Is Human Highly Suspect

Okay, I'm calling shenanigans. No way this is THAT low...right?

it wasn't on my list, but probably will be on my 2017 list (i got around to this song later than most)...in fact, only 1 person had it on their list this year & it wasn't you unless Hawaiian6 - My Name Is Loneliness is actually an auto-correct catastrophe & should be this song instead

[timmierz]

My Name Is Loneliness is a real song by a real band. :)

[Red]

Dec 20, 2016 11:26:47 GMT -5 Troy said:

Dec 20, 2016 10:46:08 GMT -5 Red said:

Okay, I'm calling shenanigans. No way this is THAT low...right?

it wasn't on my list, but probably will be on my 2017 list (i got around to this song later than most)...in fact, only 1 person had it on their list this year & it wasn't you unless Hawaiian6 - My Name Is Loneliness is actually an auto-correct catastrophe & should be this song instead

*looks at my top 100*

That's literally impossible. "My Name is Human" in my top 20.

Starting to believe you that it might be "My Name Is Loneliness".

[Troy]

Dec 20, 2016 16:30:19 GMT -5 Red said:

Dec 20, 2016 11:26:47 GMT -5 Troy said:

it wasn't on my list, but probably will be on my 2017 list (i got around to this song later than most)...in fact, only 1 person had it on their list this year & it wasn't you unless Hawaiian6 - My Name Is Loneliness is actually an auto-correct catastrophe & should be this song instead

*looks at my top 100*

That's literally impossible. "My Name is Human" in my top 20.

Starting to believe you that it might be "My Name Is Loneliness".

yep, you were the one & only person to put My Name Is Human on your list...i'm sure if we had more lists submitted it would've scored much higher

[Red]

Dec 20, 2016 18:15:04 GMT -5 Troy said:

Dec 20, 2016 16:30:19 GMT -5 Red said:

*looks at my top 100*

That's literally impossible. "My Name is Human" in my top 20.

Starting to believe you that it might be "My Name Is Loneliness".

yep, you were the one & only person to put My Name Is Human on your list...i'm sure if we had more lists submitted it would've scored much higher

Well, don't I feel sheepish?

It looks like some posters that didn't submit lists have some explaining to do, then. >

[Web]

Dec 20, 2016 22:13:09 GMT -5 Red said:

It looks like some posters that didn't submit lists have some explaining to do, then. >

 (haven't looked at my final list yet, but it's easily Top 20 on mine)

[Troy]

should i push my deadline back next year to get more votes? is the 15th too early?

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

Dec 20, 2016 10:46:08 GMT -5 Red said:

139 My Name Is Human Highly Suspect

Okay, I'm calling shenanigans. No way this is THAT low...right?

Well its right next to one of my biggest rock songs from We Are Harlot, so I could say the same thing, but I know I'm the only one who charted that power ballad.

The fun thing about this list is we actually get to see our songs chart on a yearly 2016 list. Even if I'm the only one who charted , songs from, Fever High, Dal*Shabet, Stitched Up Heart, Mana and Reckless Love; it's still great to see them here.


160 Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time Panic! At The Disco

I'm guessing it was only me who helped that song even appear on this list?

[Troy]

starting w/ this song & going onward toward the top, every song has at least 201 points which means at least 2 people listed the song...anything under it could have been submitted by a single poster:

117 Soundcheck Catfish & The Bottlemen (201 points)

[Troy]

by the way, if my research into the Billboard charts is complete, then it seems we have 12 songs coming up in our Top100 that have yet to chart in the Top 40 on Billboard Alternative, AAA or Active Rock...which songs could they be???

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

damn "Higher" just missed the top 100. and #118 ;is probably the highest slot, Def Leppard;; has scored on a year end chart in years. Thanks to me and Pipa. Don't recall anyone else charting them this year. I was also surprised to see "Impossible" end up so high. Who else; besides me, charted that one?

[maine]

ooh loving the Agent Fresco and Moon Taxi appearances

[maine]

also lol to the DNCE showing

[Red]

Quite a few songs of mine didn't make it to the top 100 (which I expected), but "Doing It To Death" made the top 100! Huzzah!

[Troy]

#100:  "Monument" by MUTEMATH

[Troy]

#99:  "Gardenia" by Iggy Pop

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

Love this format with the HUGE ART COVERS even more.

[Troy]

#98: "Critical Mistakes" by 888

[Troy]

#97:  "Take Me Down" by Pretty Reckless

[Troy]

#96:  "Ditmas" by Mumford & Sons

[Troy]

#95:  "Under The Influence" by Elle King