Sunday, March 28, 2010

WWCD -- CD101's Top 101 of 2009

Evidence that Columbus Ohio is a far cooler place than you expected. Seattle wishes it had a commercial alternative station this good (KNDD used to be, but that's another story)

1. Daylight -- Matt & Kim
2. 1901 -- Phoenix
3. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
4. I Know What I Am -- Band of Skulls
5. No You Girls -- Franz Ferdinand
6. Percussion Gun -- White Rabbits
7. Help, I'm Alive -- Metric
8. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon
9. I've Got Friends -- Manchester Orchestra
10. Zero -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
11. Walking On a Dream -- Empire of the Sun
12. Oscar Wilde -- Company of Thieves
13. Wrong -- Depeche Mode
14. Spaceman -- The Killers
15. Grafitti Eyes -- Stellastarr
16. Around the Bend -- Asterods Galaxy Tout
17. So Far So Good -- Karate Coyote
18. Notion -- Kings of Leon
19. Last Man Standing -- People in Planes
20. Grapevine Fires -- Death Cab for Cutie
21. Uprising -- Muse
22. Sometime Around Midnight -- The Airborne Toxic Event
23. Pale Bride -- Von Bondies
24. Just Impolite -- Plushgun
25. Too Fake -- Hockey
26. Heads Will Roll -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
27. Get Yours -- Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
28. My Last Mistake -- Dan Auerbach
29. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant
30. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
31. I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked -- Ida Maria
32. Wishing Well -- The Airborne Toxic Event
33. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To -- Weezer
34. The Reeling -- Passion Pit'
35. The '59 Sound -- Gaslight Anthem
36. Hard Times -- Parlor Mob
37. Never Forget You -- Noisettes
38. Good Days Bad Days -- Kaiser Chiefs
39. One Day -- Matishyahu
40. Airstream Driver -- Gomez
41. Consoler of the Lonely -- The Raconteurs
42. Sugarfoot -- Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
43. Ulysses -- Franz Ferdinand
44. Fire -- Kasabian
45. Life In Technicolor II -- Coldplay
46. Old Whtie Lincoln -- The Gaslight Anthem
47. Nothing to Worry About -- Peter Bjorn & john
48. Know Your Enemy -- Green Day
49. Slow Poison -- The Bravery
50. White Winter Hymnal -- Fleet Foxes
51. A Dustland Fairytale -- The Killers
52. Back Against the Wall -- Cage the Elephant
53. You Never Know -- Wilco
54. New Moon Rising -- Wolfmother
55. Two Weeks -- Grizzly Bear
56. One Week of Danger -- The Virgins
57. Hang You From the Heavens -- The Dead Weather
58. Ignorance -- Paramore
59. Ghost Town -- Shiny Toy Guns
60. Shove It -- Santogold
61. Propane Nightmares -- Pendulum
62. Crying Lightning -- Arctic Monkeys
63. Kingdom of Rust -- The Doves
64. Your English Is Good -- Tokyo Police Club
65. Meet Me On the Equinox -- Death Cab for Cutie
66. Living Things -- Oxygen
67. Got Nuffin -- Spoon
68. Substitution -- Silversun Pickups
69. Anything 'Cept the Truth -- Eagles of Death Metal
70. Fireflies -- Owl City
71. Check My Brain -- Alice in Chains
72. Great Expectations -- The Gaslight Anthem
73. Treat Me Like Your Mother -- The Dead Weather
74. My Delerium -- Ladyhawke
75. I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris -- Morrisey
76. I've Seen Enough -- Cold War Kids
77. Games for Days -- Julian Plenti
78. How You Like Me Now? -- The Heavy
79. Turn Me Off -- Audre Sessions
80. Youthless -- Beck
81. Kim & Jessie -- M83
82. Brother -- Pearl Jam
83. Wheels -- Foo Fighters
84. Say Please -- Monsters of Folk
85. 21 Guns -- Green Day
86. Let It Rain -- Living Things
87. Hell -- Tegan & Sara
88. Don't Believe Word -- Third Eye Blind
89. Day Drean Nation -- Envleope
90. I Hate People -- Jemina Pearl
91. Sweet Disposition -- Temper Trap
92. Say It -- Blue October
93. Full Moon -- Black Ghosts
94. Sacred Trickster -- Sonic Youth
95. Daniel -- Bat for Lashes
96. My Sunken Treasure -- Duke Spirit
97. Dirt Room -- Blue October
98. Non Dairy Creamer -- Third Eye Blind
99. Hey You -- 311
100. Lightning Storm -- Flogging Molly
101. Like A Vibration -- The Whigs

Saturday, March 27, 2010

WXPN Year in Review 2009

Another listener poll from the station that's the gold standard for NPR AAA radio. WXPN out of Philadelphia

1. Home -- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
2. I and Love and You -- The Avett Brothers
3. 1901 -- Phoenix
4. When I Go Away -- Levon Helm
5. Two Weeks -- Grizzly Bear
6. The Great Defector -- Bell X1
7. Kandi -- One Eskimo
8. Lisztomania -- Phoenix
9. Dear God (Sincerely MOF) -- Monsters of Folk
10. Sea of Heartberak -- Rosanne Cash
11. You and I -- Wilco feat. Feist
12. Backwards Down the Number Line -- Phish
13. Meet Me On the Equinox -- Death Cab For Cutie
14. Pale Horses -- Moby
15. Say Please -- Monsters of Folk
16. Say Yes -- Langhorne Slim
17. You Never Know -- Wilco
18. Working on a Dream -- Bruce Springsteen
19. Never Going Back to Memphis -- Sherrnkia Copeland
20. Magnificent -- U2
21. Why I Am -- Dave Matthews Band
22. The Rake's Song -- The Decembrists
23. The Reeling -- Passion Pit
24. Little Secrets -- Passion Pit
25. People Got a Lot of Nerve -- Neko Case
26. Who Will Comfort Me? -- Melody Gerdot
27. Just Breathe -- Pearl Jam
28. Caroline -- Brandi Carlisle
29. Laughing With -- Regina Spektor
30. Just Ain't Gonna Work Out -- Mayer Hawthorne
31. It'a All Good -- Bob Dylan
32. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
33. Kick Drum Heart -- The Avett Brothers
34. Amongst the Waves -- Pearl Jam
35. Animal -- Miike Snow
36. Airstream Driver -- Gomez
37. My Girls -- Animal Collective
38. Never Had Nobody Like You -- M. Ward
39. Sleepyhead -- Passion Pit
40. Born Again -- Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons
41. Down to the Wire -- Son Volt
42. The Fear -- Lily Allen
43. Cleaning My Gun -- Mark Knopler
44. Dreams -- Brandi Carlisle
45. Nothing to Worry About -- Peter, Bjorn & John
46. Maybe -- Ingrid Michaelson
47. Bull Black Nova -- Wilco
48. Low Rising -- The Swell Season
49. The Mountain -- Heartless Bastards
50. 40 Day Dream -- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
51. French Navy -- Camera Obscura
52. When the Suns Out -- James Murdock
53. Gimme Sympathy -- Metric
54. The Walls Are Coming Down -- Fanfarlo
55. One Wing -- Wilco
56. Summertime Clothes -- Animal Collective
57. Wait for Me -- Moby
58. Horchata -- Vampire Weekend
59. Daniel -- Bat for Lashes
60. Eet -- Regina Spektor
61. Sugarfoot -- Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
62. Eet -- Regina Spektor
63. Breathe -- U2
64. Fugitive -- David Grey
65. First Train Home -- Imogen Heap
66. Hell -- Tegan and Sara
67. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
68. Slow Burning Crimes -- East Hundred
69. Second Chance -- John Lilley
70. Periodically Double or Triple -- Yo Lo Tengo
71. Down in the Flood -- Derek Trucks Band
72. Gunpowder -- Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
73. Geraldine -- Glasvegas
74. The Ruminant Band -- Fruit Bats
75. Empire State of Mind -- Jay Z feat. Alicia Keys
76. This Tornado Loves You -- Neko Case
77. Funny the Way It Is -- Dave Matthews Band
78. Stillness Is the Move -- Dirty Projectors
79. Wavin' Flag -- K'naan
80. Wilco (The Song) -- Wilco
81. Taller Children -- Elizabeth & The Catapult
82. Beyond Here Lies Nothin' -- Bob Dylan
83. Fitz & The Dizzyspells -- Andrew Bird
84. Baby -- Devendra Barnhart
85. When My Time Comes -- Dawes
86. Got Nuffin -- Spoon
87. Root of the Industry -- Hoots and Hellmouth
88. Smoke -- Lucero
89. Chasing Pirates -- Norah Jones
90. It Don't Move Me -- Peter, Bjorn and John
91. Even If It Breaks Your Heart -- Will Hoge
92. Last Summer -- Peter Yorn
93. These Roads Don't Move -- Jasy Farrar & Ben Gibbard
94. Laundry Room -- The Avett Brothers
95. Percussion Gun -- White Rabbits
96. Little Bribes -- Death Cab for Cutie
97. Santa Cruz -- Erin McKeown
98. My Last Mistake -- Dan Auerbach
99. Buster Voodoo -- Rodrigo & Gabriela
100. Mama's Eyes -- Justin Townes Earle

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2009

Another long running countdown from Chicago's WKQX -- the station whose main mission in life is making WXRT look good.

1. Savior -- Rise Against
2. The Feel Good Drag -- Anberlin
3. Dirt Room -- Blue October
4. You're Going Down -- Sick Puppies
5. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
6. Jars -- Chevelle
7. Audience of One -- Rise Against
8. Uprising -- Muse
9. The Night -- Disturbed
10. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant
11. New Divide -- Linkin Park
12. Second Chance -- Shinedown
13. Blood On My Hands -- The Used
14. Love Hurts -- Incubus
15. I Will Not Bow -- Breaking Benjamin
16. Indestructable -- Disturbed
17. Half Truism -- The Offspring
18. Sex On Fire -- Kings of Leon
19. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To -- Weezer
20. You're Gonna Go Far Kid -- The Offspring
21. Re-education (Through Labor) -- Rise Against
22. Break -- Three Days Grace
23. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon
24. Sound of Madness -- Shinedown
25. Eyesore -- Janus
26. Back Agaisnt the Wall -- Cage the Elephant
27. Check My Brain -- Alice in Chains
28. Careless Whisper -- Seether
29. Champagne -- Cavo
30. Notion -- Kings of Leon
31. Dead Memories -- Slipknot
32. Sometime Around Midnight -- Airborne Toxic Event
33. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
34. Street Fighter (War) -- Sick Puppies
35. Kings and Queens -- 30 Seconds to Mars
36. I've Got Friends -- Manchester Orchestra
37. Young -- Hollwood Undead
38. Breaking -- Anberlin
39. I Almost Told You That I Loved You -- Papa Roach
40. She's A Genius -- Jet
41. Sink Into Me -- Taking Back Sunday
42. Know Your Enemy -- Green Day
43. If You Only Knew -- Shinedown
44. Lifeline -- Papa Roach
45. Black Heart Inertia -- Incubus
46. Snuff -- Slipknot
47. Hey You -- 311
48. Medicate -- AFI
49. Help I'm Alive -- Metric
50. Cyanide -- Metallica
51. Brother -- Pearl Jam
52. Troublemaker -- Weezer
53. East Jesus Nowhere -- Green Day
54. Meet Me On the Equinox -- Death Cab for Cutie
55. 21 Guns -- Green Day
56. All Nightmare Long -- Metallica
57. Whiskey Hangover -- Godsmack
58. Crawl Back In -- Dead By Sunrise
59. Wheels -- Foo Fighters
60. New Fang -- Them Crooked Vultures
61. Lollipop -- Framing Hanley
62. Undead -- Hollywood Undead
63. Wrong -- Depeche Mode
64. All I Want -- Staind
65. Bad Girlfriend -- Theory of a Deadman
66. The '59 Sound -- Gaslight Anthem
67. Broken, Beat & Scarred -- Metallica
68. Substitution -- Silversun Pickups
69. Odd One -- Sick Puppies
70. 100 Little Curses -- Street Sweeper Social Club
71. Hate My Life -- Theory of a Dead Man
72. Do What You Do -- Mudvayne
73. It's Alright -- 311
74. Again -- Flyleaf
75. Say It -- Blue October
76. Crash -- Cavo
77. Slow Poison -- The Bravery
78. Wars -- Hurt
79. Scream With Me -- Mudvayne
80. Drowning (Face Down) -- Saving Abel
81. Letter From A Thief -- Chevelle
82. Shake It Out -- Manchester Orchestra
83. Kristy, Are You Doing OK? -- The Offspring
84. One Day -- Matishyahu
85. Everywhere I Go -- Hollywood Undead
86. G.L.O.W. -- Smashing Pumpkins
87. Lightning Storm -- Flogging Molly
88. Desolation Row -- My Chemical Romance
89. Ignorance -- Paramore
90. Your Decision -- Alice in Chains
91. Forever In Your Hands -- All that Remains
92. Death of Me -- Red
93. Just Breathe -- Pearl Jam
94. Pork and Beans -- Weezer
95. New Moon Rising -- Wolfmother
96. Spaceman -- The Killers
97. Inside the Fire -- Disturbed
98. Changing -- Saosin
99. Crawl -- Kings of Leon
100. The Day That Never Comes -- Metallica
101. Hammerhead -- The Offspring

Monday, March 22, 2010

XETRA "91x" Top 91 of 2009

2009 was a weird year for rock station year end countdowns. Several stations that have been doing them for years skipped this year -- and maybe are discontinuing forever -- KITS in San Francisco, KNDD in Seattle, KGSR in Austin all discontinued their longrunning countdowns. Even KROQ downsized its countdown to 20 (they did top 20s for each year of the last decade) KNDD also substituted a top 100 of the '00's for its yearly countdown, as did Canadian alt rocker CJZN.

XETRA out of Tijuana, Mexico (with studios in San Diego) is a station that has been doing countdowns for years and they didn't let us down this year.

1. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon
2. Kids -- MGMT
3. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant
4. Savior -- Rise Against
5. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
6. Pany -- Far
7. New Divide -- Linkin Park
8. The Feel Good Drag -- Anberlin
9. Uprising -- Muse
10. Second Chance -- Shinedown
11. 21 Guns -- Green Day
12. Medicate -- AFI
13. Fireflies -- Owl City
14. Black Heart Inertia -- Incubus
15. Meet Me On the Equinox -- Death Cab for Cutie
16. 1901 -- Phoenix
17. Spaceman -- The Killers
18. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To -- Weezer
19. I Love College -- Asher Roth
20. Know Your Enemy -- Green Day
21. Undead -- Hollywood Undead
22. Audience of One -- Rise Agaisnt
23. Ignorance -- Paramore
24. Supermassive Black Hole -- Muse
25. Say Hey (I Love You) -- Michael Franti & Spearhead
26. Sex on Fire -- Kings of Leon
27. Kings and Queens -- 30 Seconds to Mars
28. Check My Brain -- Alice in Chains
29. Just Breathe -- Pearl Jam
30. No You Girls -- Franz Ferdindand
31. Back Agaisnt the Wall -- Cage the Elephant
32. Help, I'm Alive -- Metric
33. Sometime Around Midnight -- Airborne Toxic Event
34. Breaking -- Anberlin
35. Wrong -- Depeche Mode
36. Decode -- Paramore
37. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
38. Mess of Me -- Switchfoot
39. Notion -- Kings of Leon
40. You're Gonna Go Far Kid -- The Offspring
41. One Day -- Matishyahu
42. For What It's Worth -- Placebo
43. Ride to California -- Paper Tongues
44. Last One to Die- Rancid
45. I Would Do For You -- Slightly Stoopid
46. Slow Poison -- The Bravery
47. East Jesus Nowhere -- Green Day
48. Lifeline -- Papa Roach
49. Re-Education (Through Labor) -- Rise Against
50. Vida La Vida -- Coldplay
51. I Don't Care -- Apocalyptica feat. Adam Gontier
52. Take Me Home -- After Midnight Project
53. To Lose My Life -- White Lies
54. 100 Little Curses -- Street Sweeper Social Club
55. Ulysses -- Franz Ferdinand
56. Substitution -- Silversun Pickups
57. Hey You -- 311
58. Electric Feel --MGMT
59. Heartless -- The Fray
60. Wishing Well -- Airborne Toxic Event
61. Wheels -- Foo Fighters
62. Sink Into Me -- Taking Back Sunday
63. Pork and Beans -- Weezer
64. Daylight -- Matt and Kim
65. New Dark Ages -- Bad Religion
66. In This City -- Iglu & Hartly
67. 2 AM -- Slightly Stoopid
68. Brother -- Pearl Jam
69. Human -- The Killers
70. Sinner -- Big B feat. Scott Russo
71. Die For You -- Pennywise
72. Wake Up -- Arcade Fire
73. If Rap Gets Jeolous -- K'naan
74. United States of Eurasia -- Muse
75. Hammerhead -- The Offspring
76. A Dustland Fairytale -- The Killers
77. Shadow of the Day -- Linkin Park
78. New Fang -- Them Crooked Vultures
79. If You Only Knew -- Shinedown
80. Time to Pretend -- MGMT
81. I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked -- Ida Maria
82. Crawl Back In -- Dead By Sunrise
83. Break -- Three Days Grace
84. Grapevine Fires -- Death Cab for Cutie
85. The Western World -- Pennywise
86. True Faith -- Anberlin
87. Resistance -- Muse
88. Jars -- Chevelle
89. Beautiful Thieves -- AFI
90. Wannabe in L.A. -- Eagles of Death Metal
91. Again -- Flyleaf

Saturday, March 20, 2010

KPNT Top 105 Songs of 2009

KPNT is St. Louis' alternative station that wished it was an active rock station.

1. Savior -- Rise Against
2. The Feel Good Drag -- Anberlin
3. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant
4. Audience of One -- Rise Against
5. I Will Not Bow -- Breaking Benjamin
6. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon
7. New Divide -- Linkin Park
8. Sex on Fire -- Kings of Leon
9. Careless Whisper -- Seether
10. Check My Brain -- Alice in Chains
11. Indestructable -- Disturbed
12. Eyesore -- Janus
13. Dirt Room 00 Blue October
14. Sound of Madness -- Shinedown
15. You're Going Down -- Sick Puppies
16. Champagne -- Cavo
17. Break -- Three Days Grace
18. Uprising -- Muse
19. Dead Memories -- Slipknot
20. Jars -- Chevelle
21. Street Fighter -- Sick Puppies
22. Know Your Enemy -- Green Day
23. I've Got Friends -- Manchester Orchestra
24. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
25. Undead -- Hollywood Undead
26. Kings and Queens -- 30 Seconds to Mars
27. The Night -- Disturbed
28. Lifeline -- Papa Roach
29. Half Truims -- The Offspring
30. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To -- Weezer
31. Two Weeks -- All That Remains
32. Blood On My Hands -- The Used
33. There Was A Time -- Brookroyal
34. Whiskey Hangover -- Godsmack
35. Back Against the Wall -- Cage the Elephant
36. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
37. Young -- Hollywood Undead
38. If Only You Knew -- Shinedown
39. Sink Into Me -- Taking Back Sunday
40. Breaking -- Anberlin
41. Medicate -- AFI
42. Crash -- Cavo
43. Cyanide -- Metallica
44. Again -- Flyleaf
45. Wars -- Hurt
46. Snuff -- Slipknot
47. 21 Guns -- Green Day
48. Black Heart Inertia -- Incubus
49. I Almost Told You That I Loved You -- Papa Roach
50. Notion -- Kings of Leon'
51. Wheels -- Foo Fighters
52. New Fang -- Them Crooked Vultures
53. Crawl Back In -- Dead By Sunrise
54. Hey You -- 311
55. Scream -- Avenged Sevenfold
56. Broken, Beat & Scarred -- Metallica
57. East Jesus Nowhere -- Green Day
58. 100 Little Curses -- Street Sweeper Social Club
59. Desolation Row -- My Chemical Romance
60. Brother -- Pearl Jam
61. Odd One -- Sick Puppies
62. This Is It -- Staind
63. Storm to Pass -- Atreyu
64. Changing -- Saosin
65. Do What You Do -- Mudvayne
66. New Moon Rising -- Wolfmother
67. Dragonfly -- Shaman's Harvest
68. She's A Genius -- Jet
69. Decode -- Paramore
70. All You Did Was Save My Life -- Our Lady Peace
71. Mountain Man -- Crash Kings
72. Hard Times -- The Parlor Mob
73. Everywhere I Go -- Hollywood Undead
74. Shake It Out -- Manchester Orchestra
75. Spaceship -- Puddle of Mudd
76. Overcome -- Creed
77. Scream With Me -- Mudvayne
78. Substitution -- Silversun Pickups
79. I Get Off -- Halestorm
80. 100 in a 55 -- Pop Evil
81. It's Alright -- 311
82. Contagious -- Trapt
83. A Looking In View -- Alice In Chains
84. Take Me Home -- After Midnight Project
85. Seasons -- The Veer Union
86. Just Breathe -- Pearl Jam
87. Sulfer -- Slipknot
88. Hard to See -- Five Finger Death Punch
89. Ignorance -- Paramore
90. Hate My Life -- Theory of a Dead Man
91. Letter From A Thief -- Chevelle
92. All Nightmare Long -- Metallica
93. Wrong -- Depeche Mode
94. Say It -- Blue October
95. Had Enough -- Papa Roach
96. Armageddon -- Marilyn Manson
97. Your Decision -- Alice in Chains
98. Back Round -- Wolfmother
99. Born to Quit -- The Used
100. Hang You From the Heavens -- The Dead Weather
101. Ghost Town -- Shiny Toy Guns
102. Drowning (Face Down) -- Saving Abel
103. On My Way -- Billy Boy on Poison
104. Beautiful Thieves -- AFI
105. Get On Your Boots -- U2

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

WXPK Top 107 of 2009

If you live in Westchester County New York or on the North Shore of Long Island around the Nassau -- Suffolk County border (where I grew up) you're in AAA heaven. You can listen to non-commerical WFUV from Fordham University, which not only plays a varied and interesting mix of folk and lite indie, and has two great long running electic music programs on Saturday Night -- Idiot's Delight with Vin Scelsa and Pete Fornatale. There's also Alternative-AAA-Classic hybrid WRXP, which is getting better all the time. Then there's WRXP "The Peak", one of the more adventurous commercial AAA stations in hte country.

1. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon
2. Magnificent -- U2
3. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
4. Funny the Way It Is -- Dave Matthews Band
5. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
6. Life In Technicolor II -- Coldplay
7. Crack the Shutters -- Snow Patrol
8. 1901 -- Phoenix
9. Chasing Pirates -- Norah Jones
10. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want YOu To -- Weezer
11. Lovers in Japan -- Coldplay
12. Scumbag Blues -- Them Crooked Vultures
13. I and Love and You -- Avett Brothers
14. The Great Defector -- Bell X1
15. Little Bribes -- Death Cab for Cutie
16. Working on a Dream -- Bruce Springsteen
17. Airstram Driver -- Gomez
18. You Found Me -- The Fray
19. Two Weeks -- Grizzly Bear
20. Why I Am -- Dave Matthews Band
21. You Never Know -- Wilco
22. 21 Guns -- Green Day
23. Fugitive -- David Gray
24. Wheels -- Foo Fighters
25. Who Says -- John Mayer
26. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant
27. Backwards Down the Number LIne -- Phish
28. Maybe -- Ingrid Michaelson
29. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight -- U2
30. Heaven -- Brett Dennen
31. Help I'm Alive -- Metric
32. One Day -- Matishyahu
33. Nothing Ever Hurt like You -- James Morrison
34. Down in the Flood -- Derek Teucks Band
35. Uprising -- Muse
36. 30 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet) -- Bob Schneider
37. Meet Me On the Equinox -- Death Cab for Cutie
38. Her Diamonds -- Rob Thomas
39. Just Breathe -- Pearl Jam
40. Relator -- Peter Yorn & Scarlett Johansem
41. Mykonos -- Fleet Foxes
42. Say Please -- Monsters of Folk
43. A Whole Lot Better -- Brendan Benson
44. Just Say Yes -- Snow Patrol
45. Notion -- Kings of Leon
46. Closer to Love -- Matt Kearney
47. Buster Voodoo -- Rodrigo & Gabriela
48. Born Again -- Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons
49. Cousins -- Vampire Weekend
50. Santa Cruz -- Pearl Jam
51. Can't Stop the World -- Gavin Rossdale
52. What Are You Like? -- Indigo Girls
53. We Let Her Down -- Chris Isaak
54. Staring Down -- Collective Soul
55. Wire to Wire -- Razorlight
56. Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat -- Beck
57. Don't Wanna Cry -- Peter Yorn
58. Know Your Enemy -- Green Day
59. As If I Could -- The Boat People
60. Get On Your Boots -- U2
61. Spaceman -- The Killers
62. Fitz and the Dizzy Spells -- Andrew Bird
63. Love's A Mystery -- The Pretenders
64. Complcated Shadows -- Elvis Costello
65. Ok It's Alright with Me -- Eric Hutchinson
66. Beyond Here Lies Nothin' -- Bob Dylan
67. Low Rising -- Swell Season
68. Little Pieces -- Gomez
69. At the End of the Day -- Everclear
70. Better Together -- Jack Johnson
71. 'Cause I Sez So -- New York Dolls
72. Everybody -- Ingrid Michaeslon
73. Tear Down the Walls -- Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam
74. Hazel Black -- 7 Worlds Collide
75. Gasoline -- Airborne Toxic Event
76. Ny Lucky Day -- Bruce Springsteen
77. You and Me -- Dave Matthews Band
78. Shady Esperanto and the Young Hearts -- Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
79. Even If It Breaks Your Heart-- Will Hoge
80. Doomsday Dance -- Willie Nile
81. What's So Bad (About Feeling Good) -- Ben Lee
82. Happenstance -- The Church
83. You Can Make It -- Hill Country Revue
84. Never Had Nobody Like You -- M. Ward
85. Black Heart Inertia -- Incubus
86. I Need to Know Where I Stand -- Rhett Miller
87. If Love Can't Find A Way -- Eric Lindell
88. Shimmer and Shine -- Ben Harper and the Relentless Seven
89. You and I -- Wilco feat. Feist
90. The Ruminant Band -- Fruit Bats
91. Oh No -- Andrew Bird
92. Go My Way (The IPOD Song) -- The Bacon Brothers
93. Hard Times -- The Bottle Rockets
94. 55 Pictures -- The Damnwells
95. Candy -- Paolo Nuiti
96. Wavin' Flag -- Kannan
97. Complicated -- Yonder Mountain String Band
98. Love, Save the Empty -- Erin McCarley
99. Back Again -- 16 Frames
100. Last Summer -- Peter Yorn
101. Crying Lightning -- Arctic Monkeys
102. Little Bit of Red -- Serena Ryder
103. Little White Lies -- Fastball
104. This is the Life -- Amy McDonald
105. Get What You Deserve-- Derek Trucks Band
106. Honey Let Me Sing You a Song -- Matt Hires
107. Wreckin' Ball -- Bruce Springsteen

Monday, March 15, 2010

103.9 Top Songs of '09 -- KCXX

KCXX is a hard rocking alternative station basically covering the western Mojave desert & San Bernadino area. KCXX is proof that independence from large chain ownership is no guarantee of commitment to Indie rock. Although they do slip in a surprise here and there.


1. Dead Memories -- Slipknot
2. The Feel Good Drag -- Anberlin
3. Audience of One -- Rise Against
4. Lifeline -- Papa Roach
5. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
6. Snuff -- Slipknot
7. Savior -- Rise Against
8. Sex on Fire -- Kings of Leon
9. Sometime Around Midnight -- Airborne Toxic Event
10. You're Going Down -- Sick Puppies
11. Sinner -- Big B feat. Scott Russo
12. Scream -- Avenged Sevenfold
13. Jars -- Chevelle
14. Careless Whisper -- Seether
15. Love Hurts -- Incubus
16. I Will Not Bow -- Breaking Benjamin
17. New Divide -- Linkin Park
18. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon
19. Second Chance -- Shinedown
20. Dirt Room -- Blue October
21. Breakdown -- Seether
22, Decode -- Paramore
23. Break -- Three Days Grace
24. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant
25. Kids -- MGMT
26. Uprising -- Muse
27. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To -- Weezer
28. Breaking -- Anberlin
29. I Don't Care -- Apocalyptica feat. Adam Gontier
30. Inside the Fire -- Disturbed
31. Notion -- Kings of Leon
32. Medicate -- AFI
33. The Night -- Disturbed
34. Sink Into Me -- Taking Back Sunday
35. Substitution -- Silversun Pickups
36. One Day -- Matishyahu
37. She's A Genius -- Jet
38. Ignorance -- Paramore
39. Wrong -- Depeche Mode
40. Last One to Die -- Rancid
41. Back Against the Wall -- Cage the Elephant
42. Check My Brain -- Alice in Chains
43. Walk Away -- Five Finger Death Punch
44. Street Fighter (War)-- Sick Puppies
45. It's Alright -- 311
46. 21 Guns -- Green Day
47. Kings and Queens -- 30 Seconds from Mars
48. Blood on My Hands -- The Used
49. Wheels -- Foo Fighters
50. Again -- Flyleaf
51. Overcome -- Creed
52. Crawl Back In -- Dead By Sunrise
53. If You Only Knew -- Shinedown
54. Where I'm Going -- Kottonmouth Kings
55. The Downfall of Us All -- A Day to Remember
56. All Nightmare Long -- Metallica
57. I've Got Friends -- Manchester Orchestra
58. Sound of Madness -- Shinedown
59. Heartless -- The Fray
60. Odd One -- Sick Puppies
61. Drowning (Face Down) -- Saving Abel
62. Hey You -- 311
63. Mess of Me -- Switchfoot
64. Half Truism -- The Offspring
65. Cahmpagne -- Cavo
66. Pony -- Far
67. Storm to Pass -- Atreyu
68. Hard to See -- Five Finger Death Punch
69. Young -- Hollywood Undead
70. Changing -- Saosin
71. Meet Me on the Equinox -- Death Cab For Cutie
72. Ride to California -- Paper Tongues
73. Know Your Enemy -- Green Day
74. New Perspective -- Panic at the Disco
75. East Jesus Nowhere -- Green Day
76. 1901 -- Phoenix
77. Black Heart Inertia -- Incubus
78. Letter from a Thief -- Chevelle
79. Had Enough -- Papa Roach
80. Renegade -- Hed PE
81. I Love College -- Asher Roth
82. Sunday -- Big B
83. Whiskey Hangover -- Godsmack
84. I Almost Told You That I Loved You -- Papa Roach
85. Mountain Man -- Crash Kings
86. I Am Everything --Tech N9ne
87. Just Breathe -- Pearl Jam
88. Scream With Me -- Mudvayne
89. Your Decision -- Alice in Chains
90. Crawl -- Kings of Leon
91. The Mission -- Puscifer
92. Black Hearts (On Fire) -- Jet
93. Perfect -- Depeche Mode
94. World So Cold -- Three Days Grace
95. Heart Killer -- H.I.M.
96. Let Down -- Dead By Sunrise
97. Born to Quit -- The Used
98. Give Me A Sign -- Breaking Benjamin
99. Hero of War -- Rise Against
100. True Faith -- Anberlin
101. 100 Little Curses -- Street Sweeper Social Club
102. Seasons -- The Veer Union
103. Say It -- Blue October

Sunday, March 14, 2010

The Essential Eleven -- March 2010

There are lots of stations that call themselves "alternative" or "adult alternative", but which stations really are worthy of that name, and which are the pretenders to the throne? This is a short list of the current new songs that push the envelope, that make alternative, alternative. This is not a list of my favorites, but a list of the current songs that epitomise "alternative"

Check out your station's current playlist (it should be available on their website or on Yes.com) Check it against this list. See how your station stacks up using this handy scale

If 9-11 of these songs are on your station's playlist, cancel your Sirius subscription. You're wasting your money when you got this station for free.
6-8 Lock this station into your presets NOW
3-5 There may be hope for this station yet. Get on the request line ot their online listener panel to counteract the Seether fans
0-2 Time to check out the Pandora and Last FM websites,your station is beyond help.

Couains -- Vampire Weekend
Sweet Disposition -- Temper Trap
Lisztomania -- Phoenix
Gold Guns Girls -- Metric
Written in Reverse -- Spoon
The High Road -- Broken Bells
Stylo -- Gorillaz
Mountain Man -- Crash Kings
Little Secrets -- Passion Pit
Out of the Blue -- Julian Casablancas
Letters from the Sky -- Civil Twilight

CJLX Top 91 of 2009

CJLX is the radio station of Loyalist College (you don't get college names more Canadian than that) in Belleville Ontario. It serves as the alternative station for that city, so they don't go for that high falutin Animal Collective and Flaming Lips stuff like other college stations. This seems to be a common theme among most of the college stations that do year end countdowns. Unusually for a Canadian countdown, there's relatively little Canadian content. No Canadian artists until no. 33 -- and that one's Nickelback.

1. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
2. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon
3. Uprising -- Muse
4. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant
5. New Divide -- Linkin Park
6. Savior -- Rise Against
7. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To -- Weezer
8. The Feel Good Drag -- Anberlin
9. Audience of One -- Rise Against
10. Know Your Enemy -- Green Day
11. Lifeline -- Papa Roach
12. Notion -- Kings of Leon
13. Love Hurts -- Incubus
14. Second Chance -- Shinedown
15. Hey You -- 311
16. 21 Guns -- Green Day
17. Jars -- Chevelle
18. Kings and Queens -- 30 Seconds to Mars
19. Sound of Madness -- Shinedown
20. Check My Brain -- Alice In Chains
21. Brother -- Pearl Jam
22. You're Gonna Go Far Kid -- The Offsping
23. Wheels -- Foo Fighters
24. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
25. Decode -- Paramore
26. Sometime Around Midnight -- Airborne Toxic Event
27. I Will Not Bow -- Breaking Benjamin
28. Get On Your Boots -- U2
29. Sex On Fire -- Kings of Leon
30. Human -- The Killers
31. Careless Whisper -- Seether
32. Medicate -- AFI
33. Something In Your Mouth -- Nickelback
34. Do What You Do -- Mudvayne
35. Spaceman -- The Killers
36. My Turn -- Hoobastank
37. Kristy, Are You Doing OK? -- The Offspring
38. Kids -- MGMT
39. No You Girls -- Franz Ferdinand
40. You're Going Down -- Sick Puppies
41. Ignorance -- Paramore
42. I Don't Care -- Fall Out Boy
43. Help I'm Alive -- Metric
44. 1901 -- Phoenix
45. Champagne -- Cavo
46. Re-education (Through Labor) -- Rise Against
47. Dirt Room -- Blue October
48. I've Got Friends -- Machester Orchestra
49. Gotta Be Somebody -- Nickelback
50. The Day That Never Comes -- Metallica
51. Zero -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
52. Grapevine Fires -- Death Cab for Cutie
53. She's A Genius -- Jet
54. Black Heart Inertia -- Incubus
55. Lost! -- Coldplay
56. Ricochet -- Shiny Toy Guns
57. Wrong -- Depeche Mode
58. Dead Memories -- Slipknot
59. Breakdown -- Seether
60. Sink Into Me -- Taking Back Sunday
61. Hate My Life -- Theory of a Dead Man
62. Wishing Well -- Airborne Toxic Event
63. Overcome -- Creed
64. Break -- Three Days Grace
65. Half Truism -- The Offspring
66. Drowning (Face Down) -- Saving Abel
67. Meet Me On the Equinox -- Death Cab for Cutie
68. Funny the Way It Is -- Dave Matthews Band
69. Breaking -- Anberlin
70. Cyanide -- Metallica
71. Snuff -- Slipknot
72. Desolation Row -- My Chemical Romance
73. Ulyssses -- Franz Ferdinand
74. Magnificent -- U2
75. Gives You Hell -- All American Rejects
76. In This City -- Iglu and Harty
77. The Night -- Disturbed
78. Burn It to the Ground -- Nickelback
79. Substitution -- Silversun Pickups
80. New Moon Rising -- Wolfmother
81. If You Only Knew -- Shinedown
82. East Jesus Nowhere -- Green Day
83. Back Against the Wall -- Cage the Elephant
84. Life In Technicolor II -- Coldplay
85. If Today Was Your Last Day -- Nickelback
86. Through and Through and Through -- Joel Plaskett
87. I Almost Told You That I Loved You -- Papa Roach
88. Say It -- Blue October
89. Again -- Flyleaf
90. I Get Off -- Halestorm
91. I Love College -- Asher Roth

Saturday, March 13, 2010

WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2009

WBWC "The Sting" is the radio station of Baldwin-Wallace College in the Cleveland area. It is more mainstream than the average college station

1. Fireflies -- Owl City
2. Breaking -- Anberlin
3. 21 Guns -- Green Day
4. The Fox, the Crow and the Cookie -- Me Without You
5. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To -- Weezer
6. Desolation Row -- My Chemical Romance
7. The Downfall of Us All -- A Day to Remember
8. New Perspective -- Panic at the Disco
9. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon
10. Forget and Not Slow Down -- Reliant K
11. Know Your Enemy -- Green Day
12. At the Bottom -- Brand New
13. New Divide -- Linkin Park
14. Love Me Dead -- Ludo
15. Luck and Love -- Jonas Sees in Color
16. Notion -- Kings of Leon
17. Sometime Around Midnight -- Airborne Toxic Event
18. I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked -- Ida Maria
19. Kids -- MGMT
20. I've Got Friends -- Manchester Orchestra
21. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant
22. Sink Into Me -- Taking Back Sunday
23. Help I'm Alive -- Metric
24. Little Bribes -- Death Cab for Cutie
25. Say It -- Blue October
26. Crawl -- Two Tounges
27. Brick by Boring Brick -- Paramore
28. Say Please -- Monsters of Folk
29. Audience of One -- Rise Against
30. Few That Remain -- Set Your Goals
31. Ignorance -- Paramore
32. Spaceman - The Killers
33. Don't Trust Me -- 3Oh3
34. Over and Out -- Alkaline Trio
35. Changing -- Saosin
36. You're Gonna Go Far Kid -- The Offspring
37. Hello Seattle -- Owl City
38. Sinner -- Big B
39. My Temperature Is Rising -- Audition
40. All the Pretty Girls -- Fun
41. Zero -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
42. We Can Try -- Between the Trees
43. Right as Rain -- Adele
44. Relator -- Peter Yorn & Scarlett Johannsen
45. I Hate Everyone -- Say Anything
46. A Dustland Fairytale -- The Killers
47. Perfect -- Depeche Mode
48. Heads Will Roll -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
49. One Day -- Matishyahu
50. Lisztomania -- Phoenix
51. Last One to Die -- Rancid
52. Swim -- Jack's Mannequin
53. She Loves Everybody -- Chester French
54. Hey You -- 311
55. Sawdust Man -- Ben Kweller
56. Bruises -- Chairlift
57. Hell -- Tegan and Sara
58. Uprising -- Muse
59. You Better Pray -- Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
60. Love Drunk -- Boys Like Girls
61. This Town -- O.A.R.
62. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
63. Savior -- Rise Against
64. Second Chance -- Shinedown
65. You Found Me -- The Fray
66. Blood Bank -- Bon Iver
67. Grapevine Fires -- Death Cab for Cutie
68. Kings and Queens -- 30 Seconds to Mars
69. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
70. Don't Believe a Word -- Third Eye Blind
71. Microphone -- Coconut Records
72. Vanilla Twilight -- Owl City
73. Careless Whisper -- Seether
74. Back Against the Wall -- Cage the Elephant
75. Bonfire -- Third Eye Blind
76. Cope -- Red Beard
77. Come Around -- Sing It Loud
78. Cape Canaveral -- Conor Oberst
79. Half Truism -- The Offspring
80. No You Girls -- Franz Ferdinand
81. Nothing to Worry About -- Peter Bjorn & John
82. Wheels -- Foo Fighters
83. Break -- Three Days Grace
84. Don't Let Her Pull You Down -- New Found Glory
85. Dirt Room -- Blue October
86. The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived -- Weezer
87. Kristy Are You Doing OK? -- The Offspring
88. 1,2,3,4 I Love You -- Plain White T's

Thursday, March 11, 2010

WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2009

WRSI is a station in rural Massachussets, apparently run by a bunch of old hippies from the look of this list. WRSI polled theit listeners to compile this list.They apparently are a bunch of hackey sack playing Phish fans & coffee house folkies. Then again the list the station gave the listeners to pick from wasn't exactly filled with Alice in Chains songs. This station shares absolutely no songs with active rock leaning KPNT, not even the Pearl Jam ballad.

1. Home -- Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
2. I and I Love You -- Avett Brothers
3. My Uncle -- Sweetback Sisters
4. Obama Song -- Michael Franti & Spearhead
5. This Tornado Loves You -- Neko Case
6. You Are the Best Thing -- Ray LaMontagne
7. Santa Cruz -- Erin McKeown
8. Run Chicken Run -- Felice Brothers
9. Mykonos -- Fleet Foxes
10. Horchata -- Vampire Weekend
11. People Got a Lot of Nerve -- Neko Case
12. And It Spread -- Avett Bothers
13. Folding Chair -- Regina Spektor
14. Magnificent -- U2
15. Dreams -- Brandi Carlisle
16. I Love You, But Goodbye -- Langhorne Slim
17. Rain Roll In -- Ellen Jewel
18. You and I -- Wilco feat. Feist
19. Gasoline and Matches -- Buddy and Julie Miller
20. Sugarfoot -- Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears
21. Relator -- Peter Yorn and Scarlett Johannsen
22. Backwards Down the Number Line -- Phish
23. Two Weeks -- Grizzly Bear
24. Low Rising -- Swell Season
25. Cozy Razor's Edge --Heather Maloney
26. 509 -- Academy Frieghtshakers
27. The Hazards of Love -- The Decembrists
28. Telephone Road -- National Convention
29. 100 Days, 100 Nights -- Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
30. French Navy -- Camera Obscura
31. To Ohio -- Low Anthem
32. 100 Yard Dash -- Raphael Saadiq
33. Ruby -- David Rawlings
34. Godspeed -- Jenny Lewis
35. I'm Amazed -- My Morning Jacket
36. You Never Know -- Wilco
37. Vacationland -- David Hales and the Frost Heaves
38. The Great Defector -- Bell X1
39. Surpise, Surprise -- Chris Smither
40. Shakin All Over -- Ellen Jewel
41. The Right Place -- Monsters of Folk
42. She's Got You -- Rosannne Cash
43. The Trouble I'm In -- Unit 7
44. Magdelena -- Willie Nile
45. Fugitive -- David Gray
46. These Roads Don't Move -- Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard
47. Rave On -- M. Ward
48. Old Enough -- The Raconteurs feat. Ricky Skaggs
49. I'll Fight -- Wilco
50. Shake It Out -- Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
51. Chasing Pirates -- Norah Jones
52. Complicated Shadows -- Elvis Costello
53. I Wish I Knew How It Would Be to Be Free -- Levon Helm
54. Say Please -- Monsters of Folk
55. Candy -- Paolo Nuiti
56. Cry -- Slaid Cleaves
57. Make You Crazy -- Brent Dennen & Feta Kuti
58. First Train Home -- Imogen Heap
59. Love Vigilantes -- Iron and Wine
60. Superman -- Willy Nelson
61. War Diary -- Oweihops
62. Always a Friend -- Alejandro Escovedo
63. Nikorette -- Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
64. Valentino -- Diane Birch
65. Radio Song -- Felice Brothers
66. Roots of the Industry -- Hoots and Hellmouth
67. Natural Forces -- Lyle Lovett
68. Love's A Mystery -- The Pretenders
69. Sin Eater -- Ray Mason
70. Written In Reverse -- Spoon
71. Never Let You Go -- Taj Mahal
72. Bitter Heart -- Zee Avi
73. Right as Rain -- Adele
74. Forgetful Heart -- Bob Dylan
75. Cheater's Town -- Chris Isaak
76. Top of the Bottom -- John Wesley Harding
77. Never Had Nobody Like You -- M. Ward
78. Pale Horses -- Moby
79. Never Forget You -- Noisettes
80. Down to the Wire -- Son Volt
81. Got Nuffin -- Spoon
82. Lungs -- Steve Earl
83. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa -- Hot Chip feat. Peter Gabriel
84. What Are You Like -- Indigo Girls
85. Hello Again -- Raul Malo
86. Wilco (The Song) -- Wilco
87. Fitz and the Dizzyspells -- Andrew Bird
88. Beyond Here Lies Nothin' -- Bob Dylan
89. Working On a Dream -- Bruce Springsteen
90. Cookie Jar -- Chris Collingwood
91. Johnny Got A Boom Boom -- Imelda May
92. Instead -- Madeline Peyroux
93. Wiat for Me -- Moby

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

WRFF Year End Survey

Another listener countdown. This time from from that rarest of phenonema -- a listenable Clear Channel station. WRFF is the alternative station of Philadelphia, Pa. and it gets some of the highest ratings in the country for the format.

1. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon
2. Uprising -- Muse
3. Daylight -- Matt and Kim
4. (If You're Wondering If I Want You to) I Want You To -- Weezer
5. Kids -- MGMT
6. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
7. Sometime Around Midnight -- Airborne Toxi Event
8. Decode -- Paramore
9. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant
10. Feel Good Drag -- Anberlin
11. 1901 -- Phoenix
12. Oscar Wilde -- Company of Thieves
13. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
14. No You Girls -- Franz Ferdinand
15. Notion -- Kings of Leon
16. Wheels -- Foo Fighters
17. Audience of One -- Rise Against
18. Just Breathe -- Pearl Jam
19. New Fang -- Them Crooked Vultures
20. Grapevine Fires -- Death Cab for Cutie
21. Savior -- Rise Against
22. 21 Guns -- Green Day
23. Back Against the Wall -- Cage the Elephant
24. Funny the Way It Is -- Dave Matthews Band
25. Check My Brain -- Alice in Chains
26. New Divide -- Linkin Park
27. Bonfire -- Third Eye Blind
28. Spaceman -- The Killers
29. Meet Me On the Equinox -- Death Cab for Cutie
30. Again -- Flyleaf
31. Time to Pretend -- MGMT
32. Ignorance -- Paramore
33. Zero -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
34. The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived -- Weezer
35. Sex on Fire -- Kings of Leon
36. Substitution -- Silversun Pickups
37. You Found Me -- The Fray
38. Don't Believe a Word -- Third Eye Blind
39. Kings and Queens -- 30 Seconds to Mars
40. Fireflies -- Owl City
41. Resistance -- Muse
42. Medicate -- AFI
43. Brick by Boring Brick -- Paramore
44. Brother -- Pearl Jam
45. Wishing Well -- Airborne Toxic Event
46. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight -- U2
47. Propane Nightmares -- Pendulum
48. Wrong -- Depeche Mode
49. Life In Technicolor II -- Coldplay
50. Dirt Room -- Blue October
.5 Heartless -- The Fray
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Friday, March 5, 2010

WBER 2009 Listemer Countodown

WBER "The only station that matters" is a major reason to live near Rochester, NY. It is the radio station of the Monroe County Board of Cooperative Rducation. That's the state funded board that runs vocationsal/continuating education programs. As far as I know this is the only BOCES in the state that runs a radio station. A really good one, as evidenced by the countdown. The reason for all the ties is that it's a listener poll.

1. Kids -- MGMT
2. Help I'm Alive -- Metric
3. Das Spiegel -- The Chemical Brothers
4. Walking the Dog -- Fun
5. The Fear -- Lily Allen
6. Spirraling -- Keane
7. Drown In hte Now -- Chrystal Method
8. Daylignt -- Matt & Kim
9. Hello -- Dirty Little Rabbits
10. Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
11. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To -- Weezer
12. Twenty-Three -- MC Lars
13. Propane NIghtmares -- Pendulum
14. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
15. Uprising -- Muse
16. Sway -- The Kooks
17. Nothing to Worry About -- Peter Bjorn and John
18. Turn On, Tune In Drop Out With Me -- Cracker
19. Eet -- Regina Spektor
20. 2 O'Clock in the A.M. -- Swati
21. The Step and the Walk -- The Duke Spirit
22. This Gigantic Robot Kills -- MC Lars
23. Just Breathe -- Pearl Jam
24. I Am -- Novel
25. Full Moon -- The Black Ghosts
26. Wrong -- Depeche Mode
27T. Smiling Underneath -- Ani DiFranco
27T. I Don't Know -- Lisa Hannigan
27T. Crocodile --Underworld
30. I've Got Friends -- Manchester Orchestra
31. Whole Thing -- Big Blue Ball
32T. Black Hearted Love -- P.J. Harvey & John Parish
32T. Wrestlers -- Hot Chip
32T. Relator -- Peter Yorn & Scarlett Johansen
35. Orange Shirt --Discovery
36. At the Bottom -- Brand New
37. Ulysses -- Franz Ferdinand
38T. Pumpkin Soup -- Kate Nash
38T. In My Sight --Chris Trapper
40. Zero -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
41T. Meet Me On the Equinox -- Death Cab for Cutie
41T. I'm So Heavy -- Sonny J
41T. There Is Nobody -- Yoav
44T. Boys With Girlfriends -- Meiko
44T. Rock Like War -- Rustic Overtones
46. Human -- The Killers
47. Omen -- The Prodigy
48T. Treat Me Like Your Mother -- The Dead Weather
48T. First Train Home -- Imogen Heap
50. Unitl We Bleed -- Kleerup
51T. Battle for the Sun -- Placebo
51T. Vid Spilum Endalaust -- Sigur Ros
53. Cath -- Death Cab For Cutie
54. Gives You Hell -- All American Rejects
55. Little Pieces -- Gomez
56. Since We've Been Wrong -- The Mars Volta
57. Red Socks Pugie -- Foals
58. Very Busy People -- Limosines
59. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
60T. Jetstream -- The Doves
60T. Booming Right At You -- Junkie XL
62T. Never Miss A Beat -- Kaiser Chiefs
62T. Fire and Rain -- Matt Kearney
64T. Happy Apple Poison -- Lovedrug
64T. I Can Barely Breathe -- Manchester Orchestra
66T. Your New Twin Sized Bed -- Death Cab for Cutie
66T. Know Your Enemy -- Green Day
66T. Ignorance -- Paramore
69. Little Motel -- Modest Mouse
70. Show Me What I'm Looking For -- Carolina Liar
71. Wild International -- One Day as a Lion
72. Tremble and Tear -- John Vanderslice
73. So Hi So Lo -- Matishyahu
74. Battle Royale -- Does It Offend You Yeah?
75. Predict the Day -- Ladytron
76T. Siren Song -- Bat for Lashes
76T. When I Hit the Ground -- Enders, Ace and a Million
78T. Sink Into Me -- Taking Back Sunday
78T. Two Lovers -- The Twang
80T. Welcome to England -- Tori Amos
80T. Be Careful -- Dolores O'Riordan
82T. Halo -- Bloc Party
82T. Gift -- O.A.R.
82T. Sacred Trickster -- Sonic Youth
85T. Jars -- Chevelle
85T. Get On Your Boots -- U2
87T. Shooting Star -- Air Traffic
87T. Last One to Die -- Rancid
87T. Resistance Now -- Senser
87T. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight -- U2
91T. Help Me -- Alkaline Trio
91T. Fire -- Kasabian
91T. Last Dance -- Raveonettes
94T. Fever Dream -- Tyler Bates
94T. Learning -- Green River Ordinance
96T. On Your Side -- Coulton Graham
96T. New Perspective -- Panic at the Disco
98. April Storm -- Jeremy Engel
99T. September Brought the Fall -- Farewell
99T. Titanium Vandalism -- The Go! Team
101. Sky -- Joshua Radin
102T. Bottle Baby -- Augie March
102T. Tilt -- Wild Sweet Orange
104. Supernova -- Mr. Hudson
105T. The Bridge -- The Loved Ones
105T. So Much to Say -- Matthew Puckett

Thursday, March 4, 2010

CHDI 2009 Year in Rerview

CHDI is Edmonton Alberta's alternative rock station. This one wasn't easy to get because it is only posted on the DJ Rick Lee's blog.

1. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon
2. Gimme Sympathy -- Metric
3. Kids -- MGMT
4. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
5. Laces Out --U.S.S.
6. The Mission -- Pucsifier
7. Re-education (Through Labor) -- Rise Against
8. No You Girls -- Franz Ferdinand
9. You're Gonna Go Far Kid -- The Offspring
10. Uprising -- Muse
11. Help, I'm Alive -- Metric
12. Pork and Beans -- Weezer
13. Sometime Around Midnight --Airborne Toxic Event
14. Rusted from the Rain -- Billy Talent
15. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant
16. Zero -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
17. All Fall Down -- Thornley
18. Savior -- Rise Against
19. Body of Years -- Mother Mother
20. Devil on My Shoulder -- Billy Talent
21. Ulysses -- Franz Ferdinand
22. Oh! The Boss is Coming -- The Arkells
23. Sex on Fire -- Kings of Leon
24. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To -- Weezer
25. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
26. Your English Is Good -- Tokyo Police Club
27. Love Is A First -- The Tragically Hip
28. I Know What I Am-- Band of Skulls
29. Hammerhead -- The Offspring
30. Decode -- Paramore
31. Turn Your Back -- Billy Talent and Anti-Flag
32. Time to Pretend -- MGMT
33. Hell -- Tegan and Sara
34. East Jesus Nowhere -- Green Day
35. I Will Possess Your Heart -- Death Cav For Cutie
36. Believe in Me -- Sloan
37. Heads Will Roll -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
38. All You Did Was Save My Life -- Our Lady Peace
39. The '59 Sound -- Gaslight Anthem
40. Audience of One -- Rise Against
41. Cocaine Trade -- Christian Hansen and the Autistics
42. Wrong -- Depeche Mode
43. Being Here -- The Stills
44. New Divide -- Linkin Park
45. Call It Off -- Tegan and Sara
46. Troublemaker -- Weezer
47. 1901 -- Phoenix
48. Lost! -- Coldplay
49. Anti-Venom -- U.S.S.
50. Love Hurts -- Incubus
51. Know Your Enemy -- Green Day
52. Meet Me on the Equinox -- Death Cab for Cutie
53. Ignorance -- Paramore
54. Last Parade -- Matthew Good
55. Them Kids -- Sam Roberts Band
56. Half Trusim -- The Offspring
57. Sick Muse -- Metric
58. Put the Phone Down -- Pilot Speed
59. To Lose My Life -- White Lies
60. Ballad of Hugo Chavez -- The Arkells
61. Wheels -- Foo Fighters
62. Sleeping Sickness -- City and the Colour
63. Human -- The Killers
64. Break -- Three Days Grace
65. Back Against the Wall -- Cage the Elephant
66. Fireflies -- Owl City
67. Don't Talk Down -- The Stills
68. Crawl -- Kings of Leon
69. Desolation Row-- My Chemical Romance
70. O My Heart -- Mother Mother
71. Medicate -- AFI
72. Show Me What I'm Looking For -- Carolina Liar
73. Born and Raised -- Alexisonfire
74. Cath -- Death Cab for Cutie
75. 21 Guns -- Green Day
76. Sink Into Me -- Taking Back Sunday
77. All Empires Fall -- The Waking Eyes
78. Brother -- Pearl Jam
79. Take it for Granted -- Ill Scarlet
80. Love Me Dead -- Ludo
81. Notion -- Kings of Leon
82. Young Cardinals -- Alexisonfire
83. Check My Brain -- Alice in Chains
84. Alive Again -- Champion
85. Crawl Back In -- Dead By Sunrise
86. Hero of War -- Rise Against
87. I'm With You -- The Stills
88. Feel Good Drag -- Anberlin
89. Substitution -- Silversun Pickups
90. Fixed to Ruin -- Sam Roberts Band
91. New Fang -- Them Crooked Vultures
92. Just Breathe -- Pearl Jam
93. Always --Sum 41
94. For What It's Worth -- Placebo
95. She's A Genius -- Jet
96. Camilo (The Magician) -- Said the Whale
97. New Moon Rising -- Wolfmother
98. Say Hey (I Love You) -- Michael Franti & Spearhead
99. Last One To Die -- Rancid
100. Awake -- Crash Karma
101. In This City -- Iglu and Hartly
102. Get on Your Boots -- U2

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

KCMP Top 89 of 2009

KCMP ("The Current")is Public Radio rock in Minneapolis-St. Paul Minn., a city without a commerical alternative station and a Clear Channel AAA station so this is about it if you're in that listening area. This is a listener poll,so you can tell that the listeners have good taste.

1. Home -- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
2. My Girls -- Animal Collective
3. I and Love and You -- The Avett Brothers
4. 1901 -- Phoenix
5. Two Weeks -- Grizzly Bear
6. The Field -- Mason Jennings
7. Dominos -- The Big Pink
8. The Rake's Song -- The Decembrists
9. Lisztomania -- Phoenix
10. Help I'm Alive -- Metric
11. Fresh Air -- Brother Ali
12. Chrystalized -- The XX
13. Love Vigilantes -- Iron and Wine
14. Heads Will Roll -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
15. This Tornado Loves You -- Neko Case
16. Stillness Is the Move -- Dirty Projectors
17. While You Wait for the Others -- Grizzly Bear
18. Summertime Clothes -- Animal Collective
19. Horchata -- Vampire Weekend
20. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant
21. I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked -- Ida Maria
22. Get Over It -- Solid Gold
23. Don't Haunt This Place -- The Rural Alberta Advantage
24. French Navy -- Camera Obscura
25. Zero -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
26. Gimme Sympathy -- Metric
27. The Reeling -- Passion Pit
28. Fitz and the Dizzy Spells -- Andrew Bird
29. I'll Fight -- Wilco
30. Tenuousness -- Andrew Bird
31. Heavy Cross -- Gossip
32. Strange Overtones -- David Byrne & Brian Eno
33. I Cut Like A Buffalo -- The Dead Weather
34. Fresh Blood -- Eels
35. 49 Day Dream -- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
36. The Fear -- Lily Allen
37. Little Secrets -- Passion Pit
38. Never Had Nobody Like You -- M. Ward
39. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To -- Weezer
40. Drumming Soong -- Florence and the Machine
41. Daniel -- Bat for Lashes
42. Optimist (We Are Not For Them) -- P.O.S.
43. Pull My Heart Away -- Jack Penate
44. Us-- Brother Ali
45. Percussion Gun -- White Rabbits
46. The Hazards of Love 1 -- The Decembrists
47. People Got A Lot of Nerve -- Neko Case
48. Prizefighter -- The Eels
49. Uprising -- Muse
50. Bruises -- Chairlift
51. Geraldine -- Glasvegas
52. Meet Me On the Equinox -- Death Cab For Cutie
53. No You Girls -- Franx Ferdinand
54. Laughing With -- Regina Spektor
55. Walking On a Dream -- Empire of the Sun
56. Dreams -- Brandi Carlisle
57. The '59 Sound -- The Gaslight Anthem
58. These Are My Twisted Words -- Radiohead
59. Relator -- Peter Yorn & Scarlett Johanssen
60. Ambling Alf -- Yeasayer
61. Crying Lightning -- Arctic Monkeys
62. Hell -- Tegan and Sara
63. Tightrope -- Yeasayer
64. Death By Diamonds and Pearls -- Band of Skulls
65. Velvet -- The Big Pink
66. Hang You From the Heavens -- The Dead Weather
67. Just Breathe - Pearl Jam
68. When We Swam -- Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
69. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
70. Never Forget You -- The Noisettes
71. Kick Drum Heart -- The Avett Brothers
72. Not Fair -- Lily Allen
73. Ain't No Friend of Mine -- Mason Jennings
74. Wilco (The Song) -- Wilco
75. Hurt Feelings -- The Flight of the Conchords
76. The Calculation -- Regina Spektor
77. My Love -- The Bird and the Bee
78. Love Long Distance -- Gossip
79. Bible Thumper -- Solid Gold
80. You and I -- Wilco feat. Feist
81. Heartbroken in Disrepair -- Dan Auerbach
82. Savion Glover -- P.O.S.
83. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
84. Oh No -- Andrew Bird
85. Laundry Room -- The Avett Brothers
86. First Train Home -- Imogen Heap
87. Beach Baby -- Bon Iver
88. Daylight -- Matt and Kim
89. Sweet Disposition -- The Temper Trap

Monday, March 1, 2010

WPBZ Top 103 Buzz Cuts of 2009

WPBZ is West Palm Beach's excuse for a alternative station -- down in Florida they like their women tanned, their weather sunny and their rock active

1. Love Hurts -- Incubus
2. Savior -- Rise Against
3. You're Gonna Go Far Kid -- The Offspring
4. Leave Out All the Rest -- Linkin Park
5. Careless Whisper -- Seether
6. Second Chance -- Shinedown
7. No You Girls -- Franz Ferdinand
8. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon
9. Breath -- Breaking Benjamin
10. Jars -- Chevelle
11. Viva La Vida -- Coldplay
12. Hammerhead -- The Offspring
13. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant
14. Sex on Fire -- Kings of Leon
15. I Don't Care -- Apocalyptica feat. Adam Gontier
16. Believe -- Staind
17. Wrong -- Depeche Mode
18. Break -- Three Days Grace
19. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
20. Notion -- Kings of Leon
21. One Day -- Matishyahu
22. Kings and Queens -- 30 Seconds to Mars
23. I Will Not Bow -- Breaking Benjamin
24. Audience of One -- Rise Against
25. Inside the Fire -- Disturbed
26. Check My Brain -- Alice In Chains
27. Take Me Home -- After Midnight Project
28. New Divide -- Linkin Park
29. Feel Good Drag -- Anberlin
30. Know Your Enemy -- Green Day
31. Sound of Madness -- Shinedown
32. The Night -- Disturbed
33. 21 Guns -- Green Day
34. The Pretender -- Foo Fighters
35. Bad Girlfriend -- Theory of a Deadman
36. Medicate -- A.F.I.
37. Wheels -- Foo Fighters
38. Believe -- The Bravery
39. Blood On My Hands -- The Used
40. Half Truism -- The Offspring
41. Indestructible -- Disturbed
42. Lifeline -- Papa Roach
43. Ignorance -- Paramore
44. Stand for Something -- Skindred
45. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
46. Hate My Life -- Theory of a Deadman
47. Dirt Room -- Blue October
48. Kids -- MGMT
49. Brother -- Pearl Jam
50. 1901 -- Phoenix
51. Zero -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
52. Sink Into Me -- Taking Back Sunday
53. East Jesus Nowhere -- Green Day
54. Uprising -- Muse
55. Black Heart Inertia -- Incubus
56. Drowning (Face Down) -- Saving Abel
57. Back Against the Wall -- Cage the Elephant
58. Champagne -- Cavo
59. Hey You -- 311
60. Decode -- Paramore
61. Spaceman -- The Killers
62. Something In Your Mouth -- Nickelback
63. Life In Technicolor II -- Coldplay
64. Contagious -- Trapt
65. Shake It Out -- Manchester Orchestra
66. Lollipop -- Framing Hanley
67. Breaking -- Anberlin
68. Snuff -- Slipknot
69. Again -- Flyleaf
70. Ulysses -- Franz Ferdinand
71. I Almost Told You That I Loved You -- Papa Roach
72. She's A Genius -- Jet
73. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight -- U2
74. I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked -- Ida Maria
75. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To -- Weezer
76. Burn It To the Ground -- Nickelback
77. Dead Memories -- Slipknot
78. Slow Poison -- The Bravery
79. Hate Everyone -- Say Anything
80. Changing -- Saosin
81. If You Only Knew -- Shinedown
82. Where I'm Going -- Kottonmouth Kings
83. Desolation Row -- My Chemical Romance
84. The End Is Where We Begin -- Our Lady Peace
85. All You Did Was Save My Life -- Our Lady Peace
86. Meet Me On the Equinox -- Death Cab for Cutie
87. You Better Pray -- Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
88. Undead -- Hollywood Undead
89. Substitution -- Silversun Pickups
90. On My Way -- Billy Boy On Poison
91. Lost! -- Coldplay
92. 100 Little Curses -- Sweet Sweeper Social Club
93. Whiskey Hangover -- Godsmack
94. Overcome -- Creed
95. Scarlet Letters -- Mudvayne
96. Letter From A Thief -- Chevelle
97. Odd One -- Sick Puppies
98. Get On Your Boots -- U2
99. It's Alright -- 311
100. Crawl Back In -- Dead By Sunrise
101. Kiss With A Fist -- Florence and the Machine
102. True Faith -- Anberlin
103. Family Reunion -- Saliva