Active Rock 2019: The Year-End Pulse Rankdown (DONE!)

[rowellfarm490]

1) PM me (rowellfarm490 ) your rankings of the top 100 Active Rock songs of 2019. Rank the songs by your preference from #1 (best) down to #100 (worst).
2) An inverse point system will be used to determine the point total for each song. Song #1 gets 100 points, #2 gets 99 points... all the way down to #100 which gets 1 point.
3) The due date for submission is Sunday January 19, 2020 at 9PM EST. Make good use of your time. Become familiar with songs you don't know early on.
4) ALL songs must be ranked.
5) To avoid sending me a list with extra lines, please click BBCode below the text box before you paste your list.
6) The rankings of each participant will be posted when a song is revealed during this Rankdown.
7) You can make changes to your list as long as you do so before the deadline.
8) For reference, here are the top 100 Active Rock songs of 2019. This list was compiled by the magnificent Daryl the Beryl .

1. Bad Wolves - Remember When
2. Shinedown - Monsters
3. The Glorious Sons - S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun)
4. Five Finger Death Punch f/ Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brantley Gilbert & Brian May - Blue on Black
5. Godsmack - Under Your Scars
6. Volbeat - Last Day Under the Sun
7. Three Days Grace - Right Left Wrong
8. I Prevail - Breaking Down
9. Pop Evil - Be Legendary
10. Badflower - Heroin
11. Ghost - Dance Macabre
12. Five Finger Death Punch - When the Seasons Change
13. Dirty Honey - When I'm Gone
14. Godsmack - When Legends Rise
15. Disturbed - No More
16. Disturbed - A Reason to Fight
17. The Black Keys - Lo/Hi
18. The Glorious Sons - Panic Attack
19. Rival Sons - Do Your Worst
20. Papa Roach - Elevate
21. Greta Van Fleet - You're the One
22. Korn - You'll Never Find Me
23. Ghost - Faith
24. Hellyeah - Welcome Home
25. Greta Van Fleet - Lover, Leaver
26. Papa Roach - Who Do You Trust?
27. Dinosaur Pile-Up - Back-Foot
28. Breaking Benjamin - Tourniquet
29. Shinedown - Get Up
30. Tool - Fear Inoculum
31. Mark Morton f/ Chester Bennington - Cross Off
32. Bring Me the Horizon - Mantra
33. Halestorm - Do Not Disturb
34. Skillet - Legendary
35. Highly Suspect - 16
36. Badflower - The Jester
37. Papa Roach - Come Around
38. Ice Nine Kills - A Grave Mistake
39. Rival Sons - Too Bad
40. Mötley Crüe f/ Machine Gun Kelly - The Dirt (Est. 1981)
41. Green Day - Father of All...
42. Cage the Elephant - Ready to Let Go
43. Slipknot - Unsainted
44. Slash f/ Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators - Mind Your Manners
45. Sum 41 - Out for Blood
46. Asking Alexandria - Vultures
47. DIAMANTE - Haunted
48. Beartooth - Disease
49. Beartooth - You Never Know
50. Nothing More - Let 'Em Burn
51. Atreyu - The Time Is Now
52. Metallica - Halo on Fire
53. From Ashes to New - Broken
54. Puddle of Mudd - Uh Oh
55. The Black Keys - Go
56. Halestorm - Vicious
57. Thrice - Hold Up a Light
58. Bring Me the Horizon f/ Dani Filth - Wonderful Life
59. Bush - Bullet Holes
60. Muse - Pressure
61. Alter Bridge - Wouldn't You Rather
62. Avenged Sevenfold - Mad Hatter
63. New Years Day - Shut Up
64. Slipknot - All Out Life
65. Memphis May Fire - The Old Me
66. P.O.D. - Listening for the Silence
67. Palaye Royale - You'll Be Fine
68. Ed Sheeran, Chris Stapleton & Bruno Mars - Blow
69. Ice Nine Kills - Savages
70. Motionless in White - Brand New Numb
71. Messer - Simple Man
72. FEVER 333 - Made an America
73. Underoath - ihateit
74. grandson - Apologize
75. The Black Moods - Bad News
76. Scott Stapp - Purpose for Pain
77. Atreyu - House of Gold
78. Killswitch Engage - I Am Broken Too
79. Saul - Brother
80. Weezer - The End of the Game
81. Shim - Crucified
82. The Blue Stones - Black Holes (Solid Ground)
83. BRKN LOVE - Shot Down
84. Chevelle - Sleep Walking Elite
85. Gary Clark Jr. - What About Us
86. Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog
87. Dorothy - Who Do You Love
88. A Perfect Circle - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
89. A Day to Remember - Degenerates
90. Through Fire - All Animal
91. Like a Storm - Complicated (Stitches & Scars)
92. Blacktop Mojo - Can't Sleep
93. All That Remains - Everything's Wrong
94. FEVER 333 - One of Us
95. Royal Bliss - Pain
96. Halestorm - Black Vultures
97. The Dose - Vervain
98. The Black Moods - Bella Donna
99. blink-182 - Blame It on My Youth
100. The Dirty Nil - That's What Heaven Feels Like

Spotify playlist: Courtesy of Daryl the Beryl






*If you prefer a different radio mix/version of a song than the one in the Spotify playlist, feel free to rank that version instead. For example, my local active rock station only played the album version of "Blue on Black" and that's the one I'll be basing my ranking on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmpKqC9vbu4

Preference revealer friendly list:

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Bad Wolves - Remember When
Shinedown - Monsters
The Glorious Sons - S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun)
Five Finger Death Punch f/ Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brantley Gilbert & Brian May - Blue on Black
Godsmack - Under Your Scars
Volbeat - Last Day Under the Sun
Three Days Grace - Right Left Wrong
I Prevail - Breaking Down
Pop Evil - Be Legendary
Badflower - Heroin
Ghost - Dance Macabre
Five Finger Death Punch - When the Seasons Change
Dirty Honey - When I'm Gone
Godsmack - When Legends Rise
Disturbed - No More
Disturbed - A Reason to Fight
The Black Keys - Lo/Hi
The Glorious Sons - Panic Attack
Rival Sons - Do Your Worst
Papa Roach - Elevate
Greta Van Fleet - You're the One
Korn - You'll Never Find Me
Ghost - Faith
Hellyeah - Welcome Home
Greta Van Fleet - Lover, Leaver
Papa Roach - Who Do You Trust?
Dinosaur Pile-Up - Back-Foot
Breaking Benjamin - Tourniquet
Shinedown - Get Up
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Mark Morton f/ Chester Bennington - Cross Off
Bring Me the Horizon - Mantra
Halestorm - Do Not Disturb
Skillet - Legendary
Highly Suspect - 16
Badflower - The Jester
Papa Roach - Come Around
Ice Nine Kills - A Grave Mistake
Rival Sons - Too Bad
Mötley Crüe f/ Machine Gun Kelly - The Dirt (Est. 1981)
Green Day - Father of All...
Cage the Elephant - Ready to Let Go
Slipknot - Unsainted
Slash f/ Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators - Mind Your Manners
Sum 41 - Out for Blood
Asking Alexandria - Vultures
DIAMANTE - Haunted
Beartooth - Disease
Beartooth - You Never Know
Nothing More - Let 'Em Burn
Atreyu - The Time Is Now
Metallica - Halo on Fire
From Ashes to New - Broken
Puddle of Mudd - Uh Oh
The Black Keys - Go
Halestorm - Vicious
Thrice - Hold Up a Light
Bring Me the Horizon f/ Dani Filth - Wonderful Life
Bush - Bullet Holes
Muse - Pressure
Alter Bridge - Wouldn't You Rather
Avenged Sevenfold - Mad Hatter
New Years Day - Shut Up
Slipknot - All Out Life
Memphis May Fire - The Old Me
P.O.D. - Listening for the Silence
Palaye Royale - You'll Be Fine
Ed Sheeran, Chris Stapleton & Bruno Mars - Blow
Ice Nine Kills - Savages
Motionless in White - Brand New Numb
Messer - Simple Man
FEVER 333 - Made an America
Underoath - ihateit
grandson - Apologize
The Black Moods - Bad News
Scott Stapp - Purpose for Pain
Atreyu - House of Gold
Killswitch Engage - I Am Broken Too
Saul - Brother
Weezer - The End of the Game
Shim - Crucified
The Blue Stones - Black Holes (Solid Ground)
BRKN LOVE - Shot Down
Chevelle - Sleep Walking Elite
Gary Clark Jr. - What About Us
Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog
Dorothy - Who Do You Love
A Perfect Circle - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
A Day to Remember - Degenerates
Through Fire - All Animal
Like a Storm - Complicated (Stitches & Scars)
Blacktop Mojo - Can't Sleep
All That Remains - Everything's Wrong
FEVER 333 - One of Us
Royal Bliss - Pain
Halestorm - Black Vultures
The Dose - Vervain
The Black Moods - Bella Donna
blink-182 - Blame It on My Youth
The Dirty Nil - That's What Heaven Feels Like

*All Pulse members are welcome to participate, if anyone wants to be added to or removed from the tag list let me know. I did add to this list some regular rock posters that haven't participated before in the rock chart rankdowns.

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Daryl the Beryl Red peacebone singingrulebritannia @humanshazam wheatsquares33 Lordef†ones Doc Indie Party Rock American Idiot janinho rgreen0625 craziaskowboi dm2081 Beno maine Web Butterflies & Hurricanes rainie Az Paynter @carseatlegrest lyhom YotamTS @doinktheclown Geometrical Walking Contradiction House Lannister alexcuse morneaumispelled @trilogy LBTrocks ChicaCherry콜라 krissirge CoJoFan macattack dgarcia3377 Mandrakegray BlurryKyle bkeysfan hitmanhs bigd79

Participants:
lyhom
@humanshazam
janinho
Daryl the Beryl
wheatsquares33
singingrulebritannia
Red
peacebone
@trilogy
rowellfarm490
American Idiot
dgarcia3377
Geometrical
LBTrocks
Doc Indie Party Rock
@doinktheclown
House Lannister
fearlessarrow
Beno
Az Paynter
CarnoTorrential
Alex1901
Butterflies & Hurricanes
ChicaCherry콜라

[rowellfarm490]

Welcome to the 2019 Year-End Active Rock rankdown, your real R̸͢͠A̸̷̴W̴͝҉̷̨K̴̕͟͢ rankdown of the year! Hello again, this is Rowell and for the third straight year I will be your guide as we rank down the top 100 Billboard Mainstream Rock songs from 2019.

It was another year of dominance for active staples like Shinedown, Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat, and Halestorm. Other bands like Bad Wolves, Badflower, and Greta Van Fleet continued to build on their recent success on the radio format. The Glorious Sons and Dirty Honey, along with several other bands, had breakout years. We also got new releases from Korn, Papa Roach, Slipknot and, after a 13-year wait, TOOL! There were also some...er, interesting...returns for Pulse favorites Green Day and Highly Suspect.

So which of these bands will fare the best in this year's Active rankdown? That is up for you to decide as your participation and ranking determines the fate for each of these 100 songs. Have fun and happy ranking!

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[Red]

Does this mean I actually have to work on this now?

[lyhom]

I'm glad I did this ahead of time because this list (like a lot of the active rankdowns honestly) got rough at times, but there still is a lot to like here and I'm not too sure how the results will pan out, so looking forward to this

[dgarcia3377]

Gonna try this out. It will probably take 2 weeks to complete for me

[Daryl the Beryl]

Songs moved to 2020:

Ozzy Osbourne - Under the Graveyard
Bad Wolves - Killing Me Slowly
Shinedown - Attention Attention
Theory of a Deadman - History of Violence
Saint Asonia f/ Sully Erna - The Hunted
I Prevail - Hurricane
Starset - Manifest
Volbeat f/ Neil Fallon - Die to Live
Crobot - Low Life
Fozzy - Nowhere to Run
Fire from the Gods - Right Now
The Hu f/ From Ashes to New - Yuve Yuve Yu
Slipknot - Nero Forte
Dirty Honey - Rolling 7s
Whiskey Myers - Gasoline
The Blue Stones - Shakin' Off the Rust
BONES UK - Pretty Waste
Otherwise - Lifted
Any Given Sin - Another Life
Rubikon - Blood on My Hands

Depending on how well "Take What You Want" holds, it might appear in 2020. By the time submissions close we'll find out if it's an extra here or for 2020.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

A much better list of songs for me to play with.

[rowellfarm490]

ACTIVE 2019 BALLOT UPDATE #1

Starring the rankings of lyhom , @humanshazam , janinho , Daryl the Beryl , wheatsquares33 , and singingrulebritannia ! This rankdown may have just opened up a few days ago but we already have enough participants to do one of these. Let's see how the rankdown is shaping up so far!

-It's been a tight battle at the top with 3 songs having spent time in first place. The current leader is only ahead of #2 by 2 points. The entire top 5 is within 15 points of #1.
-7 songs have been in the top ten the entire time
-Songs #11 to #16 are all within 50 pts of #10. 15 different songs have been in the top ten at one point or another.
-The highest ranked song to have never been in the top ten is at #12.

-Things are much less exciting at the bottom. Only one song has been at #100 so far. It's not too far behind #99 though trailing it by only 8 points. #98 is less than 20 points away as well.
-Just 4 songs have been constants in the bottom ten
-Songs #83 to #90 are in the danger zone being within 50 pts of #91. 15 different songs have spent time in the bottom ten.
-The lowest ranked song to have never been in the bottom ten is at #89.

-Moving on to point thresholds, the top 46 have all earned 300 points with the top 11 being the first to reach 500 points.
-No song in the bottom quarter has gotten to 200 points yet and the bottom 11 have not even been able to muster 100 points.
-The top 5 highest SDs are at #65, #64, #45, #48, and #26.
-The top 5 lowest SDs are at #99, #100, #96, #95, and #2.

-And now for Pulse's Favorite Part of the Ballot Update...

-Ties abound in this early update but none are in the top ten. We do have ties at #12, #50, #55, #65, #68, #71, #81, #87, and #93.

[rowellfarm490]

This is a friendly reminder that your rankings are due 2 weeks from today.

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[craziaskowboi]

I'll do this sometime next week. I have a shitload of rankdowns to finish in the next couple of days.

[dgarcia3377]

I'm gonna try to finish this today or tomorrow. Down to the last 30 songs. I'm gonna rehear some songs just to be sure of my ranking.

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

as much as I don’t want to sit through some of these songs, there are a handful that I really want to support...so I guess you can expect me to submit right before the deadline (as I still have to finish AAA & Prince rankdowns as well)

[rowellfarm490]

ACTIVE 2019 BALLOT UPDATE #2

Starring the rankings of Red , peacebone , @trilogy , rowellfarm490 , American Idiot , and dgarcia3377 . Hey, sure why not, let's do another one of these right now!

-We have a fluid situation at the top with the #1 song changing twice since the last update! Both of these songs had been in first place earlier on. The current #1 holds a small lead of 6 points over #2 and songs #3 & #4 aren't much further behind trailing the leader by less than 15 points.
-Only 5 top ten constants now remain after 2 songs got knocked out of the top ten for the first time.
-Songs #11 to #15 are within striking distance of the top ten being less than 50 points away from #10. 15 different songs have spent time in the top ten.
-The highest ranked song to have never been in the top ten is at #13.

-There's also been a change at the bottom as we now have a new #100! #99 is 12 points ahead of last place but both of these songs are considerably behind the rest of the pack trailing #98 by almost 40 points. They are also the only 2 songs to have yet to scrap together 100 points.
-Just 3 songs have been in the bottom ten the entire time as one former constant managed to escape during this update.
-Songs #87 to #90 are at risk being within 50 points of #91. 17 different songs have been in the bottom 10 at one point or another.
-The lowest ranked song to have never been in the bottom ten is at #88.

-The top 31 songs have all earned 800 points with the top 8 all now breaking 4 figures at over 1000 points. Only the leader has reached 1100 pts.
-The bottom 49 haven't gotten to 600 points yet. The bottom 18 all have less than 300 with the bottom 7 all failing to put together 200 pts.

-The top 5 highest SDs are at #75, #39, #66, #35, and #44.
-The top 5 lowest SDs are at #100, #1, #99, #96, and #6.
-The highest and lowest standard deviations are the same songs as last update but the remaining songs in the top 5 highest and lowest SDs are all different.

-The song at #10 had the best update as it jumped up 16 spots. 5 other songs also improved their position by 10 or more spots.
-The song at #35 had the worst update plummeting 17 spots this update. 5 additional songs also fell down at least 10 positions.

-And now for Pulse's Favorite Part of the Ballot Update...

-There's not too much excitement to be had here but we do have ties at #25, #40, #42, #55, and #68.

[rowellfarm490]

10 more days!

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[ChicaCherry콜라]

I’ll try to tackle this this weekend! Thanks for the tag!

[rowellfarm490]

Friendly reminder that your rankings are due in 1 week!

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[rowellfarm490]

5 more days to send in your lists! I'm not going to be able to offer an extension so if you want to participate do plan on submitting your rankings before the due date.

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[Lordef†ones]

I won't be able to make this.

[House Lannister]

I'm going to do this...probably starting tomorrow.

[BlurryKyle]

Sorry, I'm not able to submit for this.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

I'm surprise people can't do this RD , but somehow were able to sit through Alt 2019. How does that work?

[BlurryKyle]

Jan 13, 2020 21:42:37 GMT -5 Doc Indie Party Rock said:

I'm surprise people can't do this RD , but somehow were able to sit through Alt 2019. How does that work?

I was already familiar with every song on Alt 2019.  While most of the songs on this RD would be first listen for me.  

[Beno]

I'll be doing this but expect me right at the deadline

[rowellfarm490]

Reminder that your rankings are due in 3 DAYS!

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[CarnoTorrential]

I'm gonna try and get this one done (realized I know more of these than I thought at first + have some favorites in here), but in case I don't, I'd like to be tagged in the results.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

Just sent. Here is my breakdown BTW, if you get the right 40 songs on a playlist you have an incredibly triumphant day at the gym.

1-40
Hard Rock is alive and well. Couldn't be prouder to be called a rocker.

41-60
good songs by bands who have done better.

61-70
couple of rough spots but otherwise clear sailing.

71-85
Sacrificial but listenable.

86-100
er.... you must be looking for the CHR chart?

[Daryl the Beryl]

Jan 13, 2020 21:42:37 GMT -5 Doc Indie Party Rock said:

I'm surprise people can't do the AAA RD , but somehow were able to sit through Alt 2019 and Active 2019. How does that work?

Fixed for correction.

#self-promotion

Though for real, I feel that AAA has less crap than either Alt and Active.

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Jan 14, 2020 23:08:32 GMT -5 Beno said:

I'll be doing this but expect me right at the deadline

ditto

[rowellfarm490]

I've moved the due time on Saturday January 18th to 9PM EST. So if you want to participate you have slightly less than 48 HOURS left to send in your ranking.

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