Pulse Official Best-Of Rock 2021 (completed)
Nov 15, 2021 13:32:09 GMT -5
Post by Troy on Nov 15, 2021 13:32:09 GMT -5
It's that time of year again. Time to look back over the past 12 months. And to reflect on all of the great music of this past year. This will be the SEVENTH ANNUAL Pulse Official Best-Of Rock Songs list. This year Leo ✔ has offered to co-host with me - Thanks Leo!
So, now let's go over...
The Rules:
Pick your favorite rock songs of the year & then order & number them from 1 to no more than 200 & no less than 10 (you can sumbit a list of any length between 10 & 200). This list is about ROCK songs, so if something is obviously not even tangentially related to either Active, Alternative or AAA, then please do not include it. There are quite a few songs that can straddle the line, so I will give some leniency. The basic rule is that 75% of your list must include songs by artists that have charted on one of the 3 formats listed above (Billboard or Mediabase). The song itself didn't have to chart, but the artist must have appeared on the chart at least once. Also, I will enforce the 75% rule on the upper half of your list as well, that way you don't send 100 songs with the top 25 being all country, rap, dance, etc, while reserving the bottom 75 for your rock songs - that is NOT allowed.
The Songs:
OK, now you know about the artists you can choose from, but as far as the actual songs, they do not need to be official singles, they do not need to have even been released in the US or any particular country. You may choose singles, promos, b-sides, deep album tracks, internet-only, rare, obscure...it really doesn't matter. I do ask that you choose only songs from this year. Now, you say that there were songs from 2020 that you only found out about this year or too late to make last year's list? - that's fine. You say there was a song from 2001 that you just discovered this year - nope, that is not allowed. And finally, you may not use any songs that were in the top half of LAST YEAR's LIST - link to last year's list is found in first post of last years thread. So if a song was somewhere from 1 to 100, it is ineligible to repeat, but as a compromise, we are going to allow songs that were in the lower half another chance (but only if they were popular with you THIS year). Once we receive all of your lists, we will calculate the top rock songs & top rock artists of 2021 and reveal them here shortly after.
The Albums:
Same rules apply for albums as do for songs (see above), except your list must be between 10 and 50 albums. Reminder, please use a separate message thread for albums.
The Deadline:
I'm a believer that when you say 2021 that you really mean 2021 (January to December) & NOT November thru October or any BS like that. So, in order to have the full month of December to consider each song, the window for submitting your list for this year-end best-of will be 12:01am on Saturday 1/1/2022 thru 11:59pm on Sunday 1/9/2022. (please do not send your list until after midnight on NYE). We will then start the reveals sometime in the 2nd week of January.
OK, now that we have that out of the way, it's time for the fun part. Start looking over your weekly/monthly lists, give the songs another listen, calculate, reconsider, shift up & down & then reorganize until you feel your list fully represents your favorite rock songs of the past year. Then PM your lists to both Leo & myself (I'd prefer you send songs in one message & albums in a different message) during the submission window (remember if you paste into the "BBCode" tab that it will prevent lines from being inserted between each song - so that would be greatly appreciated). And, we'll take care of all of the hard stuff like putting all of your songs into Excel, writing the formulas & calculating the final rankings. And again, please remember to include both Leo ✔ & Troy in your messages when you send your lists.
The Participants:
...check back later...
The Results (albums):
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21 Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth
22 JPEGMAFIA - LP!
23 The Killers - Pressure Machine
24 Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy & The Voiced Concern
25 Squid - Bright Green Field
26 YOLA - Stand For Myself
27 Olivia Rodrigo - Sour
28 Foo Fighters - Medecine At Midnight
29 Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
30 Lorde - Solar Power
31 Lucy Dacus - Home Video
32 Chevelle - Niratias
33 Sweet Trip - Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals
34 Spellling - Turning Wheel
35 Bo Burnham - Inside (The Songs)
36 The Marias - Cinema
37 Clairo - Sling
38 Sufjan Stevens - Beginner's Mind
39 Durand Jones & Indicators - Private Space
40 Rise Against - Nowhere Generation
41 James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart
42 Floating Points - Promises
43 Duran Duran - Future Past
44 Spirit Box - Eternal Blue
45 Imagine Dragons - Mercury
46 Marina - Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land
47 Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny HaHa
48 Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
49 Aly & AJ - Touch Of The Beat Gets You Up On Your Feet...
50 Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club
The Results (songs):
001
002
003
004
005
006
007
008
009
010
011
012
013
014
015
016
017
018
019
020
021 Typhoons - Royal Blood
022 Bandit - Kings Of Leon
023 Chaise Lounge - Wet Leg
024 Brutal - Olivia Rodrigo
025 Vertigo - Alice Merton
026 Princess & The Clock - Kero Kero Bonito
027 Amoeba - Clairo
028 Good 4 U - Olivia Rodrigo
029 Last Man On Earth - Wolf Alice
030 Jackie - Yves Tumor
031 Shy Away - twenty-one pilots
032 Solar Power - Lorde
033 Look At The Sky - Porter Robinson
034 Brando - Lucy Dacus
035 Witchoo - Durand Jones
036 Hope - Arlo Parks
037 Hurt - Arlo Parks
038 Narrator - Squid
039 Cloud 9 - Beach Bunny
040 transparent soul - Willow (w/ Travis Barker)
041 Serotonin - Girl In Red
042 Pay Your Way In Pain - St Vincent
043 Last Day On Earth - beabadoobee
044 Back To Oz - Sufjan Stevens
045 Boys At School - Spellling
046 Mine Forever - Lord Huron
047 Working For The Knife - Mitski
048 Kiss Me More - Doja Cat (w/ SZA)
049 Distorted Light Beam - Bastille
050 Please - Jessie Ware
051 Hot & Heavy - Lucy Dacus
052 Slow (Loud) - black midi
053 Rainforest - Noname
054 You Asked For This - Halsey
055 Once Twice Melody - Beach House
056 Woman - Little Simz
057 Seventeen Going Under - Sam Fender
058 I Love You, I Hate You - Little Simz
059 Buzzcut - Brockhampton (w/ Danny Brown)
060 Silk Chiffon - MUNA (w/ Phoebe Bridgers)
061 Well Rested - Kero Kero Bonito
062 This Enchanted - Hatchie
063 Your Power - Billie Eilish
064 Stand For Myselef - YOLA
065 Procelain Slightly - Lil Ugly Mane
066 He Said, She Said - CHVRCHES
067 Oxytocin - Billie Eilish
066 Stargazing - The Neighborhood
069 Only Heartbreaker - Mitski
070 Quiet Town - The Killers
071 How Can I Make This OK? - Wolf Alice
072 Not Dead Yet - Lord Huron
073 Colors - Black Pumas
074 Melting Of The Sun - St Vincent
075 Self Destructor - Chevelle
076 NDA - Billie Eilish
077 Dance For Love - Zella Day
078 Keep Moving - Jungle
079 Taking Me Back - Jack White
080 Higher Power - Coldplay
081 Diamond Studded Shoes - YOLA
082 Mood Ring - Lorde
083 Wrecked - Imagine Dragons
084 Beautiful World - Parannoul
085 Underground - Meg Myers
086 Freaks - Surf Curse
087 Track X - Black Country, New Road
088 Take My Breath - The Weeknd
089 Faith Healer - Julien Baker
090 Wusyaname - Tyler, The Creator
091 John L - Black Midi
092 Venus Fly Trap - Marina
093 Analog Sentimentalism - Parannoul
094 Life Of The Party - Kanye West (w/ Andre 3000)
095 Holocene - Zella Day (w/ Weyes Blood)
096 Hurricane - Kanye West
097 Nowhere Generation - Rise Against
098 Hold Me Down - Happy Fits
099 Saturday - twenty-one pilots
100 Posing In Bondage - Japanese Breakfast
101 Every Mirror Is A Mirror - Joywave
102 2010 - Earl Sweatshirt
103 Drivers License - Olivia Rodrigo
104 Zitti E Buoni - Maneskin
105 Valley Of The Pagans - Gorillaz (w/ Beck)
106 Waiting On A War - Foo Fighters
107 Deja Vu - Olivia Rodrigo
108 Strawberry - Doss
109 Walking At A Downtown Pace - Parquet Courts
110 Valentine - Snail Mail
111 telepatia - Kali Uchis
112 Divine Chord - Avalanches (w/ MGMT & Johnny Marr)
113 1 Last Cigarette - Band Camino
114 Ceremony - Deftones
115 Justified - Kacey Musgraves
116 Theme Vision - Bruno Pernadas
117 Good Girls - CHVRCHES
118 Hysterical Us - Magdalena Bay
119 Pamphlets - Squid
120 Just For Me - Pink Panthress
121 Hold Yourself - tune-yards
122 Think I'm Crazy - Two Feet
123 Lumberjack - Tyler, The Creator
124 Stop Making This Hurt - Bleachers
125 No Gods, No Masters - Garbage
126 Wake Me Up - Foals
127 I Am Not A Woman, I Am A God - Halsey
128 Snow Day - Shame
129 Blackout - Turnstile
130 Cold - Chris Stapleton
131 Coloratura - Coldplay
132 1st Time - Bakar
133 Sun Hasn't Left - Modest Mouse
134 Nothing New - Taylor Swift w/ Phoebe Bridgers
135 All My Favorite Songs - Weezer
136 Constance - Spiritbox
137 Can You Handle My Love? - Walk The Moon
138 Industry Baby - Lil Nas X
139 Hard Drive - Cassandra Jenkins
140 Easy On Me - Adele
141 Knees - Injury Reserve
142 I Wanna Be Your Slave - Maneskin
143 Mystery - Turnstile
144 Chapters - Sweet Trip
145 That Life - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
146 Cure For Me - Aurora
147 Love Will Work it Out - Durand Jones & The Indications
148 Alfonsina Y El Mar - Natalia LaFourcade
149 Don’t Be So Hard On Your Own Beauty - Yeule
150 Love Again - Dua Lipa
151 Damage - HER
152 Smokin Out The Window - Silk Sonic
153 Great Mass Of Color - Deafheaven
154 No Other Way - SHAED
155 Hazard Duty Pay! - JPEGMAFIA
156 Can I Believe You - Fleet Foxes
157 Little Things - Big Thief
158 All About You - The Knocks w/ Foster the People
159 Symptom Of Your Touch - Aly & AJ
160 Oxygen - Beach Bunny
161 Hardline - Julien Baker
162 Deep End - Foushee
163 Making A Fire - Foo Fighters
164 Hardest Cut - Spoon
165 Chinatown - Bleachers w/ Bruce Springsteen
166 Deadline - Grouplove
167 Wolves - Garbage
168 Unfold - Porter Robinson, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
169 Plastic Beach - Future Islands
170 Save Your Tears - The Weeknd
171 One + One - Death From Above 1979
172 Little Dear - Spellling
173 Rebound! - JPEGMAFIA
174 Spies - Tori Amos
175 Feels Right - Roosevelt
176 Perpetual - DV-i
177 Headstart - Jade Bird
178 Mars Simula - Chevelle
179 Keel Timing - Manchester Orchestra
180 After Coffee - Joywave
181 All You Ever Wanted - Rag N Bone Man
182 Willow - Taylor Swift
183 Concorde - Black Country, New Road
184 Beautiful Desperation - Goldpark
185 Oh! - Linda Lindas
186 New Invention - I Don't Know How But They Found Me
187 Chemtrails Over The Country Club - Lana Del Rey
188 Chasing After You - Ryan Hurd w/ Maren Morris
189 R U 4 Me? - Middle Kids
190 My Ex's Best Friend - Machine Gun Kelly w/ Blackbear
191 Spit Of You - Sam Fender
192 Talking To Ourselves - Rise Against
193 Phoenix - Big Red Machine w/ Fleet Foxes
194 Cashmere - Tkay Maidza
195 Let Down - Michigander
196 Starlight - Yola
197 Don’t Shut Me Down - ABBA
198 Invisible - Duran Duran
199 Night Crawling - Miley Cyrus w/ Billy Idol
200 We Are Between - Modest Mouse
So, now let's go over...
The Rules:
Pick your favorite rock songs of the year & then order & number them from 1 to no more than 200 & no less than 10 (you can sumbit a list of any length between 10 & 200). This list is about ROCK songs, so if something is obviously not even tangentially related to either Active, Alternative or AAA, then please do not include it. There are quite a few songs that can straddle the line, so I will give some leniency. The basic rule is that 75% of your list must include songs by artists that have charted on one of the 3 formats listed above (Billboard or Mediabase). The song itself didn't have to chart, but the artist must have appeared on the chart at least once. Also, I will enforce the 75% rule on the upper half of your list as well, that way you don't send 100 songs with the top 25 being all country, rap, dance, etc, while reserving the bottom 75 for your rock songs - that is NOT allowed.
The Songs:
OK, now you know about the artists you can choose from, but as far as the actual songs, they do not need to be official singles, they do not need to have even been released in the US or any particular country. You may choose singles, promos, b-sides, deep album tracks, internet-only, rare, obscure...it really doesn't matter. I do ask that you choose only songs from this year. Now, you say that there were songs from 2020 that you only found out about this year or too late to make last year's list? - that's fine. You say there was a song from 2001 that you just discovered this year - nope, that is not allowed. And finally, you may not use any songs that were in the top half of LAST YEAR's LIST - link to last year's list is found in first post of last years thread. So if a song was somewhere from 1 to 100, it is ineligible to repeat, but as a compromise, we are going to allow songs that were in the lower half another chance (but only if they were popular with you THIS year). Once we receive all of your lists, we will calculate the top rock songs & top rock artists of 2021 and reveal them here shortly after.
The Albums:
Same rules apply for albums as do for songs (see above), except your list must be between 10 and 50 albums. Reminder, please use a separate message thread for albums.
The Deadline:
I'm a believer that when you say 2021 that you really mean 2021 (January to December) & NOT November thru October or any BS like that. So, in order to have the full month of December to consider each song, the window for submitting your list for this year-end best-of will be 12:01am on Saturday 1/1/2022 thru 11:59pm on Sunday 1/9/2022. (please do not send your list until after midnight on NYE). We will then start the reveals sometime in the 2nd week of January.
OK, now that we have that out of the way, it's time for the fun part. Start looking over your weekly/monthly lists, give the songs another listen, calculate, reconsider, shift up & down & then reorganize until you feel your list fully represents your favorite rock songs of the past year. Then PM your lists to both Leo & myself (I'd prefer you send songs in one message & albums in a different message) during the submission window (remember if you paste into the "BBCode" tab that it will prevent lines from being inserted between each song - so that would be greatly appreciated). And, we'll take care of all of the hard stuff like putting all of your songs into Excel, writing the formulas & calculating the final rankings. And again, please remember to include both Leo ✔ & Troy in your messages when you send your lists.
The Participants:
...check back later...
The Results (albums):
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21 Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth
22 JPEGMAFIA - LP!
23 The Killers - Pressure Machine
24 Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy & The Voiced Concern
25 Squid - Bright Green Field
26 YOLA - Stand For Myself
27 Olivia Rodrigo - Sour
28 Foo Fighters - Medecine At Midnight
29 Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
30 Lorde - Solar Power
31 Lucy Dacus - Home Video
32 Chevelle - Niratias
33 Sweet Trip - Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals
34 Spellling - Turning Wheel
35 Bo Burnham - Inside (The Songs)
36 The Marias - Cinema
37 Clairo - Sling
38 Sufjan Stevens - Beginner's Mind
39 Durand Jones & Indicators - Private Space
40 Rise Against - Nowhere Generation
41 James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart
42 Floating Points - Promises
43 Duran Duran - Future Past
44 Spirit Box - Eternal Blue
45 Imagine Dragons - Mercury
46 Marina - Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land
47 Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny HaHa
48 Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
49 Aly & AJ - Touch Of The Beat Gets You Up On Your Feet...
50 Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club
The Results (songs):
001
002
003
004
005
006
007
008
009
010
011
012
013
014
015
016
017
018
019
020
021 Typhoons - Royal Blood
022 Bandit - Kings Of Leon
023 Chaise Lounge - Wet Leg
024 Brutal - Olivia Rodrigo
025 Vertigo - Alice Merton
026 Princess & The Clock - Kero Kero Bonito
027 Amoeba - Clairo
028 Good 4 U - Olivia Rodrigo
029 Last Man On Earth - Wolf Alice
030 Jackie - Yves Tumor
031 Shy Away - twenty-one pilots
032 Solar Power - Lorde
033 Look At The Sky - Porter Robinson
034 Brando - Lucy Dacus
035 Witchoo - Durand Jones
036 Hope - Arlo Parks
037 Hurt - Arlo Parks
038 Narrator - Squid
039 Cloud 9 - Beach Bunny
040 transparent soul - Willow (w/ Travis Barker)
041 Serotonin - Girl In Red
042 Pay Your Way In Pain - St Vincent
043 Last Day On Earth - beabadoobee
044 Back To Oz - Sufjan Stevens
045 Boys At School - Spellling
046 Mine Forever - Lord Huron
047 Working For The Knife - Mitski
048 Kiss Me More - Doja Cat (w/ SZA)
049 Distorted Light Beam - Bastille
050 Please - Jessie Ware
051 Hot & Heavy - Lucy Dacus
052 Slow (Loud) - black midi
053 Rainforest - Noname
054 You Asked For This - Halsey
055 Once Twice Melody - Beach House
056 Woman - Little Simz
057 Seventeen Going Under - Sam Fender
058 I Love You, I Hate You - Little Simz
059 Buzzcut - Brockhampton (w/ Danny Brown)
060 Silk Chiffon - MUNA (w/ Phoebe Bridgers)
061 Well Rested - Kero Kero Bonito
062 This Enchanted - Hatchie
063 Your Power - Billie Eilish
064 Stand For Myselef - YOLA
065 Procelain Slightly - Lil Ugly Mane
066 He Said, She Said - CHVRCHES
067 Oxytocin - Billie Eilish
066 Stargazing - The Neighborhood
069 Only Heartbreaker - Mitski
070 Quiet Town - The Killers
071 How Can I Make This OK? - Wolf Alice
072 Not Dead Yet - Lord Huron
073 Colors - Black Pumas
074 Melting Of The Sun - St Vincent
075 Self Destructor - Chevelle
076 NDA - Billie Eilish
077 Dance For Love - Zella Day
078 Keep Moving - Jungle
079 Taking Me Back - Jack White
080 Higher Power - Coldplay
081 Diamond Studded Shoes - YOLA
082 Mood Ring - Lorde
083 Wrecked - Imagine Dragons
084 Beautiful World - Parannoul
085 Underground - Meg Myers
086 Freaks - Surf Curse
087 Track X - Black Country, New Road
088 Take My Breath - The Weeknd
089 Faith Healer - Julien Baker
090 Wusyaname - Tyler, The Creator
091 John L - Black Midi
092 Venus Fly Trap - Marina
093 Analog Sentimentalism - Parannoul
094 Life Of The Party - Kanye West (w/ Andre 3000)
095 Holocene - Zella Day (w/ Weyes Blood)
096 Hurricane - Kanye West
097 Nowhere Generation - Rise Against
098 Hold Me Down - Happy Fits
099 Saturday - twenty-one pilots
100 Posing In Bondage - Japanese Breakfast
101 Every Mirror Is A Mirror - Joywave
102 2010 - Earl Sweatshirt
103 Drivers License - Olivia Rodrigo
104 Zitti E Buoni - Maneskin
105 Valley Of The Pagans - Gorillaz (w/ Beck)
106 Waiting On A War - Foo Fighters
107 Deja Vu - Olivia Rodrigo
108 Strawberry - Doss
109 Walking At A Downtown Pace - Parquet Courts
110 Valentine - Snail Mail
111 telepatia - Kali Uchis
112 Divine Chord - Avalanches (w/ MGMT & Johnny Marr)
113 1 Last Cigarette - Band Camino
114 Ceremony - Deftones
115 Justified - Kacey Musgraves
116 Theme Vision - Bruno Pernadas
117 Good Girls - CHVRCHES
118 Hysterical Us - Magdalena Bay
119 Pamphlets - Squid
120 Just For Me - Pink Panthress
121 Hold Yourself - tune-yards
122 Think I'm Crazy - Two Feet
123 Lumberjack - Tyler, The Creator
124 Stop Making This Hurt - Bleachers
125 No Gods, No Masters - Garbage
126 Wake Me Up - Foals
127 I Am Not A Woman, I Am A God - Halsey
128 Snow Day - Shame
129 Blackout - Turnstile
130 Cold - Chris Stapleton
131 Coloratura - Coldplay
132 1st Time - Bakar
133 Sun Hasn't Left - Modest Mouse
134 Nothing New - Taylor Swift w/ Phoebe Bridgers
135 All My Favorite Songs - Weezer
136 Constance - Spiritbox
137 Can You Handle My Love? - Walk The Moon
138 Industry Baby - Lil Nas X
139 Hard Drive - Cassandra Jenkins
140 Easy On Me - Adele
141 Knees - Injury Reserve
142 I Wanna Be Your Slave - Maneskin
143 Mystery - Turnstile
144 Chapters - Sweet Trip
145 That Life - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
146 Cure For Me - Aurora
147 Love Will Work it Out - Durand Jones & The Indications
148 Alfonsina Y El Mar - Natalia LaFourcade
149 Don’t Be So Hard On Your Own Beauty - Yeule
150 Love Again - Dua Lipa
151 Damage - HER
152 Smokin Out The Window - Silk Sonic
153 Great Mass Of Color - Deafheaven
154 No Other Way - SHAED
155 Hazard Duty Pay! - JPEGMAFIA
156 Can I Believe You - Fleet Foxes
157 Little Things - Big Thief
158 All About You - The Knocks w/ Foster the People
159 Symptom Of Your Touch - Aly & AJ
160 Oxygen - Beach Bunny
161 Hardline - Julien Baker
162 Deep End - Foushee
163 Making A Fire - Foo Fighters
164 Hardest Cut - Spoon
165 Chinatown - Bleachers w/ Bruce Springsteen
166 Deadline - Grouplove
167 Wolves - Garbage
168 Unfold - Porter Robinson, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
169 Plastic Beach - Future Islands
170 Save Your Tears - The Weeknd
171 One + One - Death From Above 1979
172 Little Dear - Spellling
173 Rebound! - JPEGMAFIA
174 Spies - Tori Amos
175 Feels Right - Roosevelt
176 Perpetual - DV-i
177 Headstart - Jade Bird
178 Mars Simula - Chevelle
179 Keel Timing - Manchester Orchestra
180 After Coffee - Joywave
181 All You Ever Wanted - Rag N Bone Man
182 Willow - Taylor Swift
183 Concorde - Black Country, New Road
184 Beautiful Desperation - Goldpark
185 Oh! - Linda Lindas
186 New Invention - I Don't Know How But They Found Me
187 Chemtrails Over The Country Club - Lana Del Rey
188 Chasing After You - Ryan Hurd w/ Maren Morris
189 R U 4 Me? - Middle Kids
190 My Ex's Best Friend - Machine Gun Kelly w/ Blackbear
191 Spit Of You - Sam Fender
192 Talking To Ourselves - Rise Against
193 Phoenix - Big Red Machine w/ Fleet Foxes
194 Cashmere - Tkay Maidza
195 Let Down - Michigander
196 Starlight - Yola
197 Don’t Shut Me Down - ABBA
198 Invisible - Duran Duran
199 Night Crawling - Miley Cyrus w/ Billy Idol
200 We Are Between - Modest Mouse