Billboard Top Rock Songs of Summer 2022 RD (Winner Up!)

[Daryl the Beryl]

It's been a long while since I opened up an RD, huh? Well, we have done this for the past couple years, so let's do this again, shall we?

The RD includes the top 20 songs of the summer of the rock airplay charts, namely alternative airplay, mainstream rock and adult alternative. There are exactly 60 songs; I removed the songs that were lower on a particular format.

Rules:
1) Rank the songs listed below from #1 being your favorite and #60 being your least.
2) Private message me, @ bcl your rankings by the deadline. You are also allowed to message me via Discord, especially for those participating in the same RD over there.
3) Please listen to each song in full.
4) There are several songs with multiple versions available. Rank the version you prefer. So, for example, if you want to rank the Em Beihold remix of Stephen Sanchez's "Until I Found You", you are allowed to do so if you prefer that to the original. Likewise, I attached shortened edits of songs if possible - if you want to rank the original or album versions of the song if you prefer them, go ahead.
5) The due date for this shall currently be October 23. More than two weeks after the main Summer RD to give y'all more time to listen to the songs as it's three times the number of songs. There will be no extensions as I believe this is enough time for the RD to be finished.
6) As I am currently at a more intensive job than last year, expect the reviews to be a bit more sporadic than usual. But I will try to finish this before the year-end RDs start.
7) Regarding Kate Bush: RUTH is eligible for this RD as it's not the YE one. She won't be in 2022 Alt but we will probably recognize it when we open the thread by listing its chart performance and that it won the retro Alt RD it was on.

Arcade Fire - Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)
Bad Omens - Like a Villain
Bad Wolves - If Tomorrow Never Comes
Bob Moses - Love Brand New
BoyWithUke - Toxic
Caamp - Believe
Cafuné - Tek It
Death Cab for Cutie - Here to Forever
Dermot Kennedy - Something to Someone
Dirty Heads - Life's Been Good
Disturbed - Hey You
Dorothy - Rest in Peace
Eva Under Fire f/ Spencer Charnas - Blow
Falling in Reverse - Voices in My Head
Five Finger Death Punch - AfterLife
Florence + the Machine - My Love
Fozzy - I Still Burn
Giovannie and the Hired Guns - Ramon Ayala
Harry Styles - As It Was
Highly Suspect - Natural Born Killer
Ice Nine Kills - The Shower Scene
Imagine Dragons - Bones
Imagine Dragons & JID - Enemy
Jack Johnson - One Step Ahead
Jack White - What's the Trick?
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
Korn - Worst is on Its Way
Maggie Rogers - That's Where I Am
Maggie Rogers - Want Want
Måneskin - Supermodel
Metric - All Comes Crashing
Milky Chance - Synchronize
Motionless in White - Masterpiece
Mt. Joy - Lemon Tree
Muse - Compliance
My Chemical Romance - The Foundations of Decay
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats - I'm on Your Side
Nothing More - Tired of Winning
Ozzy Osbourne f/ Jeff Beck - Patient Number 9
Panic! At the Disco - Viva Las Vengeance
Papa Roach - No Apologies
Phoebe Bridgers - Sidelines
Phoenix - Alpha Zulu
Pop Evil - Eye of the Storm
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Black Summer
Ripe - Settling
Sharon Van Etten - Mistakes
Shinedown - Daylight
Spoon - My Babe
Stephen Sanchez - Until I Found You
The Black Keys - Wild Child
The Killers - Boy
The Lumineers - Where We Are
The Maine, Taking Back Sunday & Charlotte Sands - Loved You a Little
Three Days Grace - Lifetime
Vance Joy - Clarity
Volbeat - Temple of Ekur
WALK THE MOON - Giants
Weezer - A Little Bit of Love
YUNGBLUD - The Funeral

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A Little Bit of Love
AfterLife
All Comes Crashing
Alpha Zulu
As It Was
Believe
Black Summer
Blow
Bones
Boy
Clarity
Compliance
Daylight
Enemy
Eye of the Storm
Giants
Here to Forever
Hey You
I Still Burn
I'm on Your Side
If Tomorrow Never Comes
Lemon Tree
Life's Been Good
Lifetime
Like a Villain
Love Brand New
Loved You a Little
Masterpiece
Mistakes
My Babe
My Love
Natural Born Killer
No Apologies
One Step Ahead
Patient Number 9
Ramon Ayala
Rest in Peace
Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
Settling
Sidelines
Something to Someone
Supermodel
Synchronize
Tek It
Temple of Ekur
That's Where I Am
The Foundations of Decay
The Funeral
The Shower Scene
Tired of Winning
Toxic
Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)
Until I Found You
Viva Las Vengeance
Voices in My Head
Want Want
What's the Trick?
Where We Are
Wild Child
Worst is on Its Way

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Pollen
American Idiot
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Mirago
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[Pollen]

The race is on for second place behind "Running Up That Hill".

[macattack]

Sept 7, 2022 13:30:47 GMT -5 Pollen said:

The race is on for second place behind "Running Up That Hill".

This is the real reason why RUTH isn't on Alt 2022, even though arguably it's more than justified to be there because this is based on actual airplay statistics and the 1985 rankdown RUTH won is based on guesstimation. There's absolutely no way RUTH doesn't win Alt 2022 if it was allowed in. Maybe "boy" by The Killers would get an upset? 

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I’ll do this!

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

I'll do this one. Songs are still fresh in my mind. Kinda like a preview to 2022's Rock Rds.

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[Daryl the Beryl]

Slightly less than 5 weeks left!

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[wrip]

Sept 7, 2022 13:30:47 GMT -5 Pollen said:

The race is on for second place behind "Running Up That Hill".

I'd argue it's a race for 3rd behind this and "Tek It" tbh

[Daryl the Beryl]

First set of extras!

ALTERNATIVE EXTRA


Scared Together
Silversun Pickups

Chart Peak: #27 | Weeks: 6

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ACTIVE EXTRA


Mystery
Turnstile

Chart Peak: #16 | Weeks: 7

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AAA EXTRA


Love Me More
Mitski

Chart Peak: #23 | Weeks: 10

[shoehola]

Just done listening.

Breakdown of my scores:

10/10 - 2 songs
9/10 - 4 songs
8/10 - 2 songs
7/10 - 8 songs
6/10 - 11 songs
5/10 - 30 songs
4/10 - 3 songs
2/10 - 1 song (Falling in Reverse - Voices in My Head)
Rating of the chart: 5.87

[Daryl the Beryl]

5 weeks left! Take note that there will be no extensions so please plan ahead.

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[taylor]

Bookmarked!

[Daryl the Beryl]

Our next set of extras have two songs that are still rising, and one that just missed the RD cutoff.

ALTERNATIVE EXTRA


Tippa My Tongue
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Chart Peak: #12 | Weeks: 3

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ACTIVE EXTRA


Strangers
Bring Me the Horizon

Chart Peak: #15 | Weeks: 8

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AAA EXTRA


You and Me on the Rock
Brandi Carlile f/ Lucius

Chart Peak: #19 | Weeks: 10

[Daryl the Beryl]

While I didn't like expect "Wake Up" to smash, I didn't think it would've done this bad. The Saint Asonia song underperformed as well though I don't think it's as good as The Hunted, but better than Better Place. Finally, this Black Keys era remains unimpressive; the singles are not too bad, but they're capable of much better and if this is the output they're gonna churn out now, I'd rather Dan Auerbach stick to producing.

ALTERNATIVE EXTRA


Wake Up
Young the Giant

Chart Peak: #31 | Weeks: 8

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ACTIVE EXTRA


Above It All
Saint Asonia

Chart Peak: #21 | Weeks: 10

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AAA EXTRA


It Ain't Over
The Black Keys

Chart Peak: #5 | Weeks: 6

[Daryl the Beryl]

ALTERNATIVE EXTRA


Happy Face
Jagwar Twin

Chart Peak: #36 | Weeks: 11

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Good but they're capable of better

ACTIVE EXTRA


The Steeple
Halestorm

Chart Peak: #2 | Weeks: 4

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Not as infuriating as other Michael Franti & Spearhead songs. I'll leave it as that.


AAA EXTRA


Brighter Day
Michael Franti & Spearhead

Chart Peak: #17 | Weeks: 10

[Daryl the Beryl]

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[Daryl the Beryl]

If you would've told me Gorillaz would get a top 10 in this day and age I would be shocked, but this is deserved.

ALTERNATIVE EXTRA


Cracker Island
Gorillaz f/ Thundercat

Chart Peak: #19 | Weeks: 7

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Still don't get I Prevail

ACTIVE EXTRA


Bad Things
I Prevail

Chart Peak: #10 | Weeks: 7

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The closest thing we'll get to see Oneohtrix Point Never on rock radio (and this is a quality song, too)


AAA EXTRA


Shotgun
Soccer Mommy

Chart Peak: #14 | Weeks: 8

[Daryl the Beryl]

Slightly less than 3 weeks left! Note again that there will not be any extensions.

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[Daryl the Beryl]

How did we go from Gorillaz to AJR

ALTERNATIVE EXTRA


I Won't
AJR

Chart Peak: #13 | Weeks: 5

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Good song

ACTIVE EXTRA


when we were young
Architects

Chart Peak: #20 | Weeks: 11

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How did the 1975 nearly top this chart


AAA EXTRA


Part of the Band
The 1975

Chart Peak: #2 | Weeks: 7

[Daryl the Beryl]

This song was a year too late unfortunately

ALTERNATIVE EXTRA


High Again
girlfriends

Chart Peak: #25 | Weeks: 13

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I like this one more than their past couple singles but it still misses the spark of the singles of their 2014 album.

ACTIVE EXTRA


Set You Free
Crobot

Chart Peak: #22 | Weeks: 13

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Shame on you AAA for not letting this go top 10 and for Republic not to even push this to alt. One of Florence's best.


AAA EXTRA


Free
Florence + the Machine

Chart Peak: #14 | Weeks: 10

[Daryl the Beryl]

The Interrupters tried to re-create "She's Kerosene"... to diminishing returns.

ALTERNATIVE EXTRA


In the Mirror
The Interrupters

Chart Peak: #19 | Weeks: 8

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The Offspring did better than I thought on alternative considering how poorly the lead was received and the fact that they're no longer in their prime.

ACTIVE EXTRA


Behind Your Walls
The Offspring

Chart Peak: #17 | Weeks: 11

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Band of Horses couldn't quite repeat the success of Crutch for its sequel. I do like this one a bit better.


AAA EXTRA


Warning Signs
Band of Horses

Chart Peak: #10 | Weeks: 8

[Daryl the Beryl]

On the topic of songs that did better than I thought...

ALTERNATIVE EXTRA


Something Loud
Jimmy Eat World

Chart Peak: #21 | Weeks: 11

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Active stop giving Five Finger Death Punch hits challenge (impossible)

ACTIVE EXTRA


Times Like These
Five Finger Death Punch

Chart Peak: #6 | Weeks: 7

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Given that we're now giving public radio favorites more love now, I thought Jeff Tweedy and co. would do a bit better here. Instead, this performed about the same level as their previous leads.


AAA EXTRA


Falling Apart (Right Now)
Wilco

Chart Peak: #19 | Weeks: 12

[Daryl the Beryl]

And for our final set of extras, we end the alternative one on a sour note, with what will inevitably end up in my bottom 10 for alt. Screw this Imagine Dragons crap. And AAA needs to stop playing this as well, it doesn't fit the format!

ALTERNATIVE EXTRA

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Blood Runs Red
Matt Maeson

Chart Peak: #22 | Weeks: 14

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Remember when this was at #16 for like 6 weeks?

ACTIVE EXTRA


Faded Out
Asking Alexandria f/ Within Temptation

Chart Peak: #16 | Weeks: 11

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This will eventually become her first top 10 on the format. I like this one more than "Jackpot", but not more than "Right Time". Pretty Sheryl Crow-y.


AAA EXTRA


First High
Nikki Lane

Chart Peak: #13 | Weeks: 11

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12 more days! Note again that there will not be any extensions.

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[Daryl the Beryl]

7 more days! Note again that there will not be any extensions. Thank you khan for submitting. We're now up to 13 lists on Pulse and 11 lists on TOTC.

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[Doc Indie Party Rock]

Sent/check.

Amazing how little of these songs I have actually charted myself.

[Daryl the Beryl]

4 more days! Note again that there will not be any extensions. Thank you khan for submitting. We're now up to 17 lists on Pulse and 11 lists on TOTC.

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