Pulse Rankdown: 2015 Year End Active Rock Chart

[Daryl the Beryl]

HERE'S THE SPREADSHEET WITH ALL THE INFO ON THE RANKDOWN!

1) PM me the top 100 active rock songs, all ranked to your preference. (e.g. if you like a song the most, rank it the highest and vice versa).
2) The points a song has will be totalled up based on an inverse point system. So if you rank a song #100, it gets 1 point, and if you rank a song #1, it gets 100 points. All the points from the responders will be totalled up.
3) The due date for submission is April 30, Sunday, 10PM Eastern Time.
4) ALL songs must be ranked.
Spotify playlist:





"Faith", "Miscellanea" and "Blood Stop and Run" are geo-restricted in several countries, but you can find them on YouTube as well. "Faith" and "Blood Stop and Run" aren't even on iTunes in most countries, though BSAR is on iTunes UK and maybe some other European countries.

5) All your rankings will posted when I post a song in this thread.
6) For reference, here are the top 100 active rock songs of 2015. Top 50 is from Billboard, bottom 50 I roughly estimate. Like in the alternative rankdowns, I excluded some repeats of songs that are not in the top 50 and are either 2014 peaks or crossovers to 2016. These include: Become the Enemy, Blow, Breaking Skin, The Devil in I, Doc Holliday, Fallen Angel, I Am the Fire, The Light, The Only Way Out, Play Ball, Save Today, State of My Head, Thank You, Until the World Goes Cold and Wash It All Away.

1. Breaking Benjamin - Failure
2. Pop Evil - Footsteps
3. The Pretty Reckless - Follow Me Down
4. Shinedown - Cut the Cord
5. Three Days Grace - I Am Machine
6. Theory of a Deadman - Angel
7. Zac Brown Band f/ Chris Cornell - Heavy Is the Head
8. Disturbed - The Vengeful One
9. Highly Suspect- Lydia
10. Royal Blood - Little Monster
11. Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side of Heaven
12. Red Sun Rising - The Otherside
13. Five Finger Death Punch - Jekyll and Hyde
14. Foo Fighters - Something from Nothing
15. Breaking Benjamin - Angels Fall
16. Seether - Same Damn Life
17. Foo Fighters - Congregation
18. The Offspring - Coming for You
19. Papa Roach - Face Everything and Rise
20. Halestorm - Apocalyptic
21. Slash f/ Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - Bent to Fly
22. Papa Roach - Gravity
23. Nothing More - Jenny
24. Sixx:A.M. - Stars
25. Three Days Grace - Human Race
26. Halestorm - Amen
27. Royal Blood - Figure It Out
28. Bring Me the Horizon - Drown
29. Saint Asonia - Better Place
30. Chris Cornell - Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart
31. Seether - Nobody Praying For Me
32. AC/DC - Rock or Bust
33. Godsmack - Something Different
34. Bring Me the Horizon - Throne
35. Marilyn Manson - Deep Six
36. The Temperance Movement - Take It Back
37. Slipknot - Killpop
38. The Struts - Could Have Been Me
39. Asking Alexandria - Moving On
40. Nickelback - Million Miles an Hour
41. Foo Fighters - Outside
42. Hellyeah - Hush
43. AWOLNATION - Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)
44. All That Remains - This Probably Won’t End Well
45. Starset - Carnivore
46. We Are Harlot - Dancing on Nails
47. Starset - Halo
48. Ghost - Cirice
49. All That Remains - For You
50. Nothing More - Mr. MTV
51. Muse - Dead Inside
52. Aranda - Don't Wake Me
53. Hellyeah - Moth
54. Devour the Day - Faith
55. In This Moment - Sick Like Me
56. Godsmack - What's Next?
57. Of Mice & Men - Never Giving Up
58. 10 Years - Miscellanea
59. Thousand Foot Krutch - Untraveled Road
60. Like a Storm - Wish You Hell
61. Pop Evil - Beautiful
62. Asking Alexandria - I Won't Give In
63. Beartooth - In Between
64. Kid Rock - First Kiss
65. P.O.D. - This Goes Out to You
66. Mumford & Sons - The Wolf
67. Incubus - Absolution Calling
68. Young Guns - I Want Out
69. Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?
70. Otherwise - Coming for the Throne
71. Cage the Elephant - Cigarette Daydreams
72. Motionless in White - Reincarnate
73. Amaranthe - Drop Dead Cynical
74. Chevelle - An Island
75. Kill it Kid - Blood Stop and Run
76. The Black Keys - Weight of Love
77. Islander - New Wave
78. In This Moment - Sex Metal Barbie
79. We Are Harlot - Someday
80. Trapt - Passenger
81. Linkin Park f/ Daron Malakian - Rebellion
82. Apocalyptica - Cold Blood
83. Sons of Texas - Baptized in the Rio Grande
84. I Prevail - Blank Space
85. Muse - Mercy
86. The Arcs - Outta My Mind
87. Shaman's Harvest - Dirty Diana
88. Wilson - Right to Rise
89. In This Moment - Big Bad Wolf
90. Falling in Reverse - God, If You Are Above...
91. Islander - Cold Speak
92. Of Mice & Men - Feels Like Forever
93. Theory of a Deadman f/ Alice Cooper - Savages
94. Muse - Psycho
95. Crobot - Legend of the Spaceborne Killer
96. Slipknot - Custer
97. Shaman's Harvest - Dangerous
98. Rise Against - Tragedy + Time
99. Stars in Stereo - Fairweather Friend
100. Buckcherry - Bring It on Back

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The Bode Blend (Moose) Web H. Pale Shelter Devin Red dm2081 Pipa wheatsquares33 Pollen Green Baron Lordef†ones Doc Indie Party Rock American Idiot peacebone timmierz rainie rockmandattebayo aerodynamite rowellfarm490 rgreen0625 janinho

Anyone whom I've not tagged is allowed to join in as long as he sends me a ranked list of all the 100 songs.

[Lordef†ones]

First glance I already know my #1 and my #100

For me Active always has higher highs but much lower lows

[Deleted]

Oooooooh, looking forward to this one!
I will definitely take part.
Was out of it for a few years, so most of these are brand new to me, will be fun exploring them all.

[janinho]

40% great
40% okay I guess
10% alt crossovers I don't want to here on active
10% awful

[Pollen]

I know a little over half on this so I will participate.

My #100 is already set in stone.

[Pale Shelter]

so now instead of complaining about all of the pop posters, you guys can complain about me, the "if it's not Alt it's crap" poster

top 25% = pretty good
next 25% = tolerable
next 25% = dreadful
last 25% = make it stop!

[janinho]

Apr 3, 2017 11:40:19 GMT -5 Pale Shelter said:

the "if it's not Alt it's crap" poster

I'm the complete opposite of you. You can call me the ''if it's not Active it's crap'' poster

[The Bode Blend (Moose)]

Apr 3, 2017 11:40:19 GMT -5 Pale Shelter said:

so now instead of complaining about all of the pop posters, you guys can complain about me, the "if it's not Alt it's crap" poster

I guess I'm somewhat in that camp too. I tend to rate Active-leaning songs on Alternative lower than most of the rock posters. Luckily for you all, I won't be participating in this. :)

[Lordef†ones]

Top 40 = Good
41-60 = OK at best
61-80 = Mediocre-Bad
81-100 = Awful

A former #100 of mine barely made bottom 5

[Deleted]

Apr 3, 2017 11:48:15 GMT -5 janinho said:

Apr 3, 2017 11:40:19 GMT -5 Pale Shelter said:

the "if it's not Alt it's crap" poster

I'm the complete opposite of you. You can call me the ''if it's not Active it's crap'' poster

+1. Sorta. In terms of my "rock needs", I am all Active nowadays - used to be very different 20 years ago when Modern Rock & Hot AC radio were totally different to what they are now.

[Red]

I might actually deviate from the 2015 Alt list and put something else at #1. Not 100% sure about this, but...we'll see.

Wait...oh god, the "Blank Space" cover is on this list.

Oh god.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

I forgot Muse charted three songs that year. "Mercy" and "Dead Inside" are not super Active sounding. I'll surely rank "Psycho" higher; just because it has a fiercer guitar vibe.

[Lordef†ones]

My Top 10 Prediction:

1. Something from Nothing
2. Cirice
3. Dead Inside
4. The Otherside
5. Lydia
6. I Want Out
7. Figure It Out
8. Angels Fall
9. R U Mine?
10. Hollow Moon

My Bottom 10 Prediction.

91. Hush
92. Sick Like Me
93. Baptized in the Rio Grande
94. Wish You Hell
95. First Kiss
96. Big Bad Wolf
97. Right to Rise
98. Bring It On Back
99. Blank Space
100. Sex Metal Barbie

[Pollen]

"Baptized in the Rio Grande" and "Wish You Hell" aren't bottom 10 worthy. Both are decent.

Considering where "Become the Enemy" landed in the last rankdown, I'm not expecting much from "Wish You Hell" since it's worse.

[Daryl the Beryl]

Apr 4, 2017 8:30:37 GMT -5 Pollen said:

"Wish You Hell"... are decent. 

[Pollen]

Apr 4, 2017 8:35:15 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

Apr 4, 2017 8:30:37 GMT -5 Pollen said:

"Wish You Hell"... are decent. 

lol I never minded "Wish You Hell". It's not going to be as high as "Become the Enemy" was for me (~#16, but 2016 was a shitty year), but it'll probably make my Top 50. It's decent radio fluff to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[janinho]

I think most people here won't have a problem with my bottom 10.
But I think most people will hate the rest of my list.

[Daryl the Beryl]

To me "Wish You Hell" is the type of angsty, generic active rock that's plaguing active rock now (thankfully we're getting less of these now) (at least it's not as bad as their other song "Pure Evil"). Ded's "Anti-Everything", which is unfortunately probably going to be huge on active in the coming weeks/months, also falls under the same category.

[Pale Shelter]

Apr 4, 2017 7:35:36 GMT -5 Lordef†ones said:

My Top 10 Prediction:

1. Something from Nothing
2. Cirice
3. Dead Inside
4. The Otherside
5. Lydia
6. I Want Out
7. Figure It Out
8. Angels Fall
9. R U Mine?
10. Hollow Moon

My Bottom 10 Prediction.

91. Hush
92. Sick Like Me
93. Baptized in the Rio Grande
94. Wish You Hell
95. First Kiss
96. Big Bad Wolf
97. Right to Rise
98. Bring It On Back
99. Blank Space
100. Sex Metal Barbie

SMB may be really bad, but at least its interesting which i can't say for a good 40 of the songs on this list

[Lordef†ones]

Apr 4, 2017 8:46:58 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

To me "Wish You Hell" is the type of angsty, generic active rock that's plaguing active rock now (thankfully we're getting less of these now) (at least it's not as bad as their other song "Pure Evil"). Ded's "Anti-Everything", which is unfortunately probably going to be huge on active in the coming weeks/months, also falls under the same category.

I think "Wish You Hell" is worse cause the lyrics, especially the chorus, are so cringeworthy

[Daryl the Beryl]

Apr 4, 2017 23:12:29 GMT -5 Lordef†ones said:

Apr 4, 2017 8:46:58 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

To me "Wish You Hell" is the type of angsty, generic active rock that's plaguing active rock now (thankfully we're getting less of these now) (at least it's not as bad as their other song "Pure Evil"). Ded's "Anti-Everything", which is unfortunately probably going to be huge on active in the coming weeks/months, also falls under the same category.

I think "Wish You Hell" is worse cause the lyrics, especially the chorus, are so cringeworthy

Yeah I'd take Anti Everything over that. At least the lyrics aren't as bad as that, which is the usual "I hate you for ___(x)___ reason! I hate you for ______(y) reason"! Anti Everything is more about individuality, which makes the lyrics less cringe-worthy, but the way the verses are rapped is pretty bad.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

"Wish You Hell" probably had nothing to offer me, because I'm going to have to listen to it again just to remind me what the it sounded like?

[Daryl the Beryl]

Apr 5, 2017 2:21:53 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

Again, listen to the songs you don't know early (listen multiple times if you have to if you want to have a better opinion of it)! Start early and you don't have to worry about submitting your lists late!

[Pale Shelter]

Apr 3, 2017 22:54:59 GMT -5 Red said:

Wait...oh god, the "Blank Space" cover is on this list.

Oh god.

an xx cover on the active chart?!? that's the last thing I'd ever expect to hear

[Deleted]

Blank Space better not be 100, its my favorite song on this list, and the only one I know

[rainie]

Apr 5, 2017 22:16:53 GMT -5 Pale Shelter said:

Apr 3, 2017 22:54:59 GMT -5 Red said:

Wait...oh god, the "Blank Space" cover is on this list.

Oh god.

an xx cover on the active chart?!? that's the last thing I'd ever expect to hear

Nope I s by I Prevail who are a metalcore band lmao

[Pale Shelter]

oops you said BLANK space, not BASIC space...i guess i'm not familiar with the original song, only the cover i listened to on the spotify playlist

[Pale Shelter]

but if the song below were in this competition, it might make my top 10:

[Green Baron]

holy fuck there's so much mediocrity

[Daryl the Beryl]

One more week, guys!

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