Pulse Official Best-Of Rock 2022 (revealing)
Dec 26, 2022 14:30:29 GMT -5
Post by Troy on Dec 26, 2022 14:30:29 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 EIGHTH ANNUAL Pulse Official Best-Of Rock Songs list. Thanks again to Leo ✔ who has offered to co-host with me again this year!
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 25 (you can sumbit a list of any length between 25 and 200 songs). 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 2021 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 1985 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 2022 and reveal them here shortly after.
this format is mandatory: <SONG TITLE FIRST> - <ARTIST NAME LAST>
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.
this format is mandatory: <ALBUM TITLE FIRST> - <ARTIST NAME LAST>
The Deadline:
I'm a believer that when you say 2022 that you really mean 2022 (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 Sunday, January 1st thru 11:59pm on Sunday, January 8th. (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:
Leo ✔
Troy
Walking Contradiction
HamedM1 💔
DadJokes
willapted33
BlurryKyle
The Results (albums):
01 Blue Rev - Alvvays
02 And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow - Weyes Blood
03 Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You - Big Thief
04 Ants From Up There - Black Country, New Road
05 Skinty Fia - Fontaines DC
06 Mr Morale & The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar
07 Hellfire - black midi
08 Giving The World Away - Hatchie
09 Expert In A Dying Field - The Beths
10 Being Funny In A Foreign Language - The 1975
11 Once Twice Melody - Beach House
12 Cheat Codes - Danger Mouse & Black Though
13 Light For Attracting Attention - The Smile
14 Melt My Eyez See Your Future - Denzel Curry
15 Laurel Hell - Mitski
16 Painless - Nilüfer Yanya
17 Wet Leg - Wet Leg
18 Preacher’s Daughter - Ethel Cain
19 Sometimes, Forever - Soccer Mommy
20 SOS - SZA
21 Dawn FM - The Weeknd
22 God Save The Animals - Alex G
23 Forever Story - JID
24 King’s Disease III - Nas
25 Renaissance - Beyoncé
26 Emotional Creature - Beach Bunny
27 Beatopia - beabadoobee
28 No Thank You - Little Simz
29 As I Try Not To Fall Apart - White Lies
30 Natural Brown Prom Queen - Sudan Archives
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32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
The Results (songs):
001 Bad Habit - Steve Lacy
002 Simulation Swarm - Big Thief
003 After The Earthquake - Alvvays
004 Tek It - Cafuné
005 Sidelines - Phoebe Bridgers
006 Jackie Down The Line - Fontaines DC
007 As It Was - Harry Styles
008 Quicksand - Hatchie
009 Cracker Island (w/ Thundercat) - Gorillaz
010 This Is Why - Paramore
011 American Teenager - Ethel Cain
012 Love Me More - Mitski
013 About Damn Time - Lizzo
014 Foundations Of Decay - My Chemical Romance
015 Lights On - Hatchie
016 Love Brand New - Bob Moses
017 Happiness - The 1975
018 Expert In A Dying Field - The Beths
019 Free - Florence + The Machine
020 Easy On Your Own? - Alvvays
021 God Turn Me Into A Flower - Weyes Blood
022 Spitting Off The Edge Of The World (w/ Perfume Genius) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
023 My Love - Florence + The Machine
024 Pharmacist - Alvvays
025 The Heart Part V - Kendrick Lamar
026 Shotgun - Soccer Mommy
027 Runner - Alex G
028 What's The Trick? - Jack White
029 Talk - beabadoobee
030 Silence is Golden - The Beths
031 In The Wake Of Your Leave - Gang Of Youths
032 10:36 - beabadoobee
033 Tonight (w/ Ezra Koenig) - Phoenix
034 Angelica - Wet Leg
035 Aquamarine - Danger Mouse & Black Thought
036 That's Where I Am - Maggie Rogers
037 Midnight Sun - Nilüfer Yanya
038 Wild - Spoon
039 Belinda Says - Alvvays
040 All You Do - Magdalena Bay
041 Burning - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
042 Boy - The Killers
043 Nosedive - Hatchie
044 Wet Dream - Wet Leg
045 All Comes Crashing - Metric
046 The Lightning I & II - Arcade Fire
047 Billions - Caroline Polachek
048 Free Yourself - Jessie Ware
049 Want Want - Maggie Rogers
050 Walkin - Denzel Curry
051 Home Maker - Sudan Archves
052 Superstar - Beach House
053 News - Paramore
054 Heavy Heart - Bartees Strange
055 Out Of Time - The Weeknd
056 Softly - Arlo Parks
057 Anything But Me - MUNA
058 Roman Holiday - Fontaines DC
059 Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift
060 Something In The Orange - Zach Bryan
061 Mistakes - Sharon Van Etten
062 Place Where He Inserted The Blade - Black Country, New Road
063 Tunnel Of You - Cannons
064 What, Me Worry? - Portugal. The Man
065 Next To Normal - Lucius
066 2am - Foals
067 King - Florence + the Machine
068 Zatoichi - Denzel Curry
069 Won't Stand Down - Muse
070 Maybe It's My Fault - WILLOW
071 Snow Globes - Black Country, New Road
072 Then It All Goes Away - Dayglow
073 I'm In Love With You - The 1975
074 Wild Child - Black Keys
075 Welcome To Hell - black midi
076 Roman Candles - Death Cab For Cutie
077 Little Things - Big Thief
078 Free In The Knowledge - The Smile
079 Should've Been Me - Mitski
080 Hardest Cut - Spoon
081 Wake Me Up - Foals
082 2001 - Foals
083 Here To Forever - Death Cab For Cutie
084 Mushroom Punch - Zella Day
085 About You - The 1975
086 Royal Blue Walls - Jane Remover
087 It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody - Weyes Blood
088 Dance Now - DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ
089 Sacrifice - The Weeknd
090 Porta - Sharon Van Etten
091 Mystery - Turnstile
092 Concorde - Black Country, New Road
093 Break My Soul - Beyonce
094 Virginia (Wind In The Night) - The Head & The Heart
095 On My Knees - Rufus Du Sol
096 You're On Your Own, Kid - Taylor Swift
097 Perfect Pair - Beabadoobee
098 Wake Up - Young The Giant
099 Grapevine - Weyes Blood
100 Billie Toppy - Men I Trust
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 25 (you can sumbit a list of any length between 25 and 200 songs). 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 2021 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 1985 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 2022 and reveal them here shortly after.
this format is mandatory: <SONG TITLE FIRST> - <ARTIST NAME LAST>
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.
this format is mandatory: <ALBUM TITLE FIRST> - <ARTIST NAME LAST>
The Deadline:
I'm a believer that when you say 2022 that you really mean 2022 (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 Sunday, January 1st thru 11:59pm on Sunday, January 8th. (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:
Leo ✔
Troy
Walking Contradiction
HamedM1 💔
DadJokes
willapted33
BlurryKyle
The Results (albums):
01 Blue Rev - Alvvays
02 And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow - Weyes Blood
03 Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You - Big Thief
04 Ants From Up There - Black Country, New Road
05 Skinty Fia - Fontaines DC
06 Mr Morale & The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar
07 Hellfire - black midi
08 Giving The World Away - Hatchie
09 Expert In A Dying Field - The Beths
10 Being Funny In A Foreign Language - The 1975
11 Once Twice Melody - Beach House
12 Cheat Codes - Danger Mouse & Black Though
13 Light For Attracting Attention - The Smile
14 Melt My Eyez See Your Future - Denzel Curry
15 Laurel Hell - Mitski
16 Painless - Nilüfer Yanya
17 Wet Leg - Wet Leg
18 Preacher’s Daughter - Ethel Cain
19 Sometimes, Forever - Soccer Mommy
20 SOS - SZA
21 Dawn FM - The Weeknd
22 God Save The Animals - Alex G
23 Forever Story - JID
24 King’s Disease III - Nas
25 Renaissance - Beyoncé
26 Emotional Creature - Beach Bunny
27 Beatopia - beabadoobee
28 No Thank You - Little Simz
29 As I Try Not To Fall Apart - White Lies
30 Natural Brown Prom Queen - Sudan Archives
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
The Results (songs):
001 Bad Habit - Steve Lacy
002 Simulation Swarm - Big Thief
003 After The Earthquake - Alvvays
004 Tek It - Cafuné
005 Sidelines - Phoebe Bridgers
006 Jackie Down The Line - Fontaines DC
007 As It Was - Harry Styles
008 Quicksand - Hatchie
009 Cracker Island (w/ Thundercat) - Gorillaz
010 This Is Why - Paramore
011 American Teenager - Ethel Cain
012 Love Me More - Mitski
013 About Damn Time - Lizzo
014 Foundations Of Decay - My Chemical Romance
015 Lights On - Hatchie
016 Love Brand New - Bob Moses
017 Happiness - The 1975
018 Expert In A Dying Field - The Beths
019 Free - Florence + The Machine
020 Easy On Your Own? - Alvvays
021 God Turn Me Into A Flower - Weyes Blood
022 Spitting Off The Edge Of The World (w/ Perfume Genius) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
023 My Love - Florence + The Machine
024 Pharmacist - Alvvays
025 The Heart Part V - Kendrick Lamar
026 Shotgun - Soccer Mommy
027 Runner - Alex G
028 What's The Trick? - Jack White
029 Talk - beabadoobee
030 Silence is Golden - The Beths
031 In The Wake Of Your Leave - Gang Of Youths
032 10:36 - beabadoobee
033 Tonight (w/ Ezra Koenig) - Phoenix
034 Angelica - Wet Leg
035 Aquamarine - Danger Mouse & Black Thought
036 That's Where I Am - Maggie Rogers
037 Midnight Sun - Nilüfer Yanya
038 Wild - Spoon
039 Belinda Says - Alvvays
040 All You Do - Magdalena Bay
041 Burning - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
042 Boy - The Killers
043 Nosedive - Hatchie
044 Wet Dream - Wet Leg
045 All Comes Crashing - Metric
046 The Lightning I & II - Arcade Fire
047 Billions - Caroline Polachek
048 Free Yourself - Jessie Ware
049 Want Want - Maggie Rogers
050 Walkin - Denzel Curry
051 Home Maker - Sudan Archves
052 Superstar - Beach House
053 News - Paramore
054 Heavy Heart - Bartees Strange
055 Out Of Time - The Weeknd
056 Softly - Arlo Parks
057 Anything But Me - MUNA
058 Roman Holiday - Fontaines DC
059 Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift
060 Something In The Orange - Zach Bryan
061 Mistakes - Sharon Van Etten
062 Place Where He Inserted The Blade - Black Country, New Road
063 Tunnel Of You - Cannons
064 What, Me Worry? - Portugal. The Man
065 Next To Normal - Lucius
066 2am - Foals
067 King - Florence + the Machine
068 Zatoichi - Denzel Curry
069 Won't Stand Down - Muse
070 Maybe It's My Fault - WILLOW
071 Snow Globes - Black Country, New Road
072 Then It All Goes Away - Dayglow
073 I'm In Love With You - The 1975
074 Wild Child - Black Keys
075 Welcome To Hell - black midi
076 Roman Candles - Death Cab For Cutie
077 Little Things - Big Thief
078 Free In The Knowledge - The Smile
079 Should've Been Me - Mitski
080 Hardest Cut - Spoon
081 Wake Me Up - Foals
082 2001 - Foals
083 Here To Forever - Death Cab For Cutie
084 Mushroom Punch - Zella Day
085 About You - The 1975
086 Royal Blue Walls - Jane Remover
087 It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody - Weyes Blood
088 Dance Now - DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ
089 Sacrifice - The Weeknd
090 Porta - Sharon Van Etten
091 Mystery - Turnstile
092 Concorde - Black Country, New Road
093 Break My Soul - Beyonce
094 Virginia (Wind In The Night) - The Head & The Heart
095 On My Knees - Rufus Du Sol
096 You're On Your Own, Kid - Taylor Swift
097 Perfect Pair - Beabadoobee
098 Wake Up - Young The Giant
099 Grapevine - Weyes Blood
100 Billie Toppy - Men I Trust