Friday, December 31, 2010

KCMP TOP 89 OF 2010

KCMP is the current -- Minnesota Public Radio -- leaning rock a little more than the average AAA Public Radio Station.



1. Dog Days Are Over - Florence And The Machine
2. Little Lion Man - Mumford and Sons
3. Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem
4. Wait So Long - Trampled By Turtles
5. The Cave - Mumford and Sons
6. Forget You - Cee Lo
7. White Blank Page - Mumford and Sons
8. Tighten Up - The Black Keys
9. January Wedding - The Avett Brothers
10. Dixon's Girl - Dessa
11. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
12. The High Road - Broken Bells
13. Ready To Start - Arcade Fire
14. Airplanes - Local Natives
15. Bloodbuzz Ohio - The National
16. You'll Be Bright - Cloud Cult
17. When My Time Comes - Dawes
18. Freefallin' - Atmosphere
19. The Chaconne - Dessa
20. Conversation 16 - The National
21. Winter Winds - Mumford and Sons
22. Running With the Wolves - Cloud Cult
23. Tightrope feat. Big Boi - Janelle Monae
24. This Too Shall Pass - OK Go
25. Carries On - Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
26. Howlin' For You - The Black Keys
27. The Ghost Inside - Broken Bells
28. Ambling Alp - Yeasayer
29. Rhinestone Eyes - Gorillaz
30. The Best Day - Atmosphere
31. Laredo - Band of Horses
32. O.N.E. - Yeasayer
33. Mouthful Of Diamonds - Phantogram
34. A Girl, a Boy, and a Graveyard - Jeremy Messersmith
35. Violet! - Jeremy Messersmith
36. Beg Steal Or Borrow - Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs
37. Basic Space - The XX
38. Cameras - Matt and Kim
39. I Can Change - LCD Soundsystem
40. Sinister Kid - The Black Keys
41. Down By The Water - The Decemberists
42. Not The Kid - Communist Daughter
43. From Above - Ben Folds and Nick Hornby
44. Cold War - Janelle Monae
45. Shutterbugg - Big Boi
46. Crown On The Ground - Sleigh Bells
47. That Western Skyline - Dawes
48. On Melancholy Hill - Gorillaz
49. Spanish Pipedream - The Avett Brothers
50. Swim Until You Can't See Land - Frightened Rabbit
51. Horchata - Vampire Weekend
52. Congratulations - MGMT
53. Norway - Beach House
54. Written In Reverse - Spoon
55. VCR - The XX
56. City With No Children - Arcade Fire
57. Half Light II (No Celebration) - Arcade Fire
58. I Walked - Sufjan Stevens
59. Odessa - Caribou
60. Zebra - Beach House
61. You Must Be Out Of Your Mind - The Magnetic Fields
62. Boyfriend - Best Coast
63. Sick Of You - Cake
64. Audience - Cold War Kids
65. Dillinger Eyes - Jeremy Messersmith
66. The Only One - The Black Keys
67. Beat The Devil's Tattoo - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
68. Victory - Trampled by Turtles
69. Bang Pop - Free Energy
70. Organ Donor - Jeremy Messersmith
71. Tall Boy - Har Mar Superstar
72. Giving Up The Gun - Vampire Weekend
73. In Sleep - Lissie
74. Gaudy Side of Town - Gayngs
75. Cousins - Vampire Weekend
76. I Learned The Hard Way - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
77. Crash Years - The New Pornographers
78. Pow Pow - LCD Soundsystem
79. Sound of Sunshine - Michael Franti and Spearhead
80. XXXO - M.I.A.
81. Bang Bang Bang feat. Q-Tip and MNDR - Mark Ronson
82. Lasso - Phoenix
83. Lost In The World feat. Justin Vernon - Kanye West
84. Shadow People - Dr. Dog
85. White Knuckles - OK Go
86. Die By The Drop - The Dead Weather
87. Go Do - Jonsi
88. Radioactive - Kings Of Leon
89. Terrible Love - The National

KSJO Top 92 of 2010

For the first time...and probably the last time once the sale of the station goes through...Channel 923 does a yearend countdown

1 PHOENIX Lisztomania
2 NEON TREES Animal
3 TEMPER TRAP Sweet Disposition
4 DIRTY HEADS Lay Me Down f/Rome
5 BROKEN BELLS High Road
6 MUSE Resistance
7 PHOENIX 1901
8 MUSE Uprising
9 WEEZER (If You're Wondering If I Want You To)I Want You To
10 MUMFORD & SONS Little Lion Man
11 BLACK KEYS Tighten Up
12 SILVERSUN PICKUPS The Royal We
13 CAGE THE ELEPHANT In One Ear
14 KINGS OF LEON Radioactive
15 BRANDON FLOWERS Crossfire
16 COLD WAR KIDS Audience
17 CAGE THE ELEPHANT Back Against The Wall
18 MUSE Undisclosed Desires
19 KINGS OF LEON Crawl
20 30 SECONDS TO MARS Kings & Queens
21 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Cousins
22 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Dog Days Are Over
23 ARCADE FIRE Ready To Start
24 PARAMORE Brick By Boring Brick
25 LINKIN PARK Waiting For The End
26 ANBERLIN Impossible
27 30 SECONDS TO MARS This Is War
28 METRIC Gold Guns Girls
29 CIVIL TWILIGHT Letters From The Sky
30 JIMMY EAT WORLD My Best Theory
31 STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Between The Lines
32 THE DEAD WEATHERDie By The Drop
33 PEARL JAM Just Breathe
34 JACK JOHNSON You And Your Heart
35 PEARL JAM The Fixer
36 AGAINST ME! I Was A Teenage Anarchist
37 TEMPER TRAP Fader
38 CAKE Sick Of You
39 LINKIN PARK The Catalyst
40 HOCKEY Song Away
41 PASSION PIT Little Secrets
42 FOO FIGHTERS Wheels
43 BIG PINK Dominos
44 FREE ENERGY Bang Pop
45 AFI Beautiful Thieves
46 GASLIGHT ANTHEM Boxer
47 OK GO This Too Shall Pass
48 MGMT Electric Feel
49 LIMOUSINES Internet Killed The Video Star
50 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Meet Me On The Equinox
51 SILVERSUN PICKUPS Substitution
52 THEM CROOKED VULTURES New Fang
53 MUMFORD & SONS The Cave
54 WEEZER Memories
55 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Giving Up The Gun
56 WEEZER I'm Your Daddy
57 JACK JOHNSON At Or With Me
58 MUSE Neutron Star Collision
59 30 SECONDS TO MARS Closer To The Edge
60 PARAMORE Ignorance
61 GREEN DAY East Jesus Nowhere
62 NEON TREES 1983
63 ATOMIC TOM Take Me Out
64 CRASH KINGS Mountain Man
65 HOLE Skinny Little Bitch
66 TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB Come Back Home
67 BUSH Afterlife
68 HEAVY How You Like Me Now?
69 STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Take A Load Off
70 JESSE MALIN/ST. MARKS SOCIAL Burning The Bowery
71 CEE LO GREEN F**k You (Forget You)
72 SLIGHTLY STOOPID 2:00 AM
73 FANFARLO Harold T. Wilkins
74 GASLIGHT ANTHEM American Slang
75 BAND OF HORSES Laredo
76 LINKIN PARK Burning In The Skies
77 NEW POLITICS Yeah Yeah Yeah
78 STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Cinnamon
79 PASSION PIT The Reeling
80 PARAMORE The Only Exception
81 CAGE THE ELEPHANT Ain't No Rest For The Wicked
82 DAN BLACK Symphonies
83 CAGE THE ELEPHANT Shake Me Down
84 GORILLAZ Stylo
85 MIDDLE CLASS RUT New Low
86 PEARL JAM Amongst The Waves
87 AMERICAN BANG Wild And Young
88 PORTUGAL THE MAN People Say
89 CRYSTAL CASTLES Not In Love
90 YOUNG THE GIANT My Body
91 EDWARD SHARPE + MAGNETIC ZEROS Home
92 ARCADE FIRE We Used To Wait

WTTS Top 50 of 2010

WTTS is a AAA station in Indianapolis. Not mind-blowing good, but compared to what passes for their alternative station it is heaven.

1. Avett Brothers “I & Love & You”
2. Pearl Jam “Just Breathe”
3. Ray Lamontagne “Beg Steal Or Borrow”
4. One Eskimo “Kandi”
5. Dave Matthews Band “You & Me”
6. Phoenix “1901”
7. Mumford & Sons “Little Lion Man”
8. Broken Bells “The High Road”
9. Train “Hey Soul Sister”
10. Michael Franti & Spearhead “The Sound Of Sunshine”
11. Jack Johnson “At Or With Me”
12. John Mayer “Half Of My Heart”
13. Avett Brothers “Head Full of Doubt”
14. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers “I Should Have Known It”
15. Black Keys “Tighten Up”
16. Jack Johnson “You And Your Heart”
17. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes “Home”
18. Lifehouse “Halfway Gone”
19. David Gray “Fugitive”
20. Dave Matthews Band “Why I Am”
21. Foo Fighters “Wheels”
22. John Mayer “Heartbreak Warfare”
23. Sara Bareilles “King Of Anything”
24. Dirty Heads “Lay Me Down”
25. Norah Jones “Chasing Pirates”
26. Robert Plant “Angel Dance”
27. Train “If It’s Love”
28. Snow Patrol “Just Say Yes”
29. Ingrid Michaelson “Maybe”
30. John Mayer “Who Says”
31. Goo Goo Dolls “Home”
32. Sheryl Crow “Summer Day”
33. Alpha Rev “New Morning”
34. Greg Laswell “Take Everything”
35. Brandon Flowers “Crossfire”
36. Eric Clapton “Run Back To Your Side”
37. David Gray “A Moment Changes Everything”
38. Kings Of Leon “Radioactive”
39. David Gray “Stella The Artist”
40. Mat Kearney “All I Have”
41. Shawn Mullins “Light You Up”
42. Melissa Etheridge “Fearless Love”
43. Train “Save Me San Francisco”
44. NeedToBreathe “The Outsiders”
45. Guster “Do You Love Me”
46. Neon Trees “Animal”
47. John Butler Trio “One Way Road”
48. Norah Jones “It’s Gonna Be”
49. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers “High In The Morning”
50. Dave Barnes “Little Lies”

WCYY Top 50 of 2010

Portland, Me's Commercial Alternative station is pretty much standard for the genre, with only the hilarious faux-hip hop tune "I'm Awesome" breaking up the monotomy.

1. DIRTYHEADS – LAY ME DOWN
2. RISE AGAINST – SAVIOR
3. MUSE – THE RESISTANCE
4. DISTURBED – ANOTHER WAY TO DIE
5. PHOENIX – 1901
6. CAGE THE ELEPHANT – IN ONE EAR
7. NEON TREES – ANIMAL
8. AVENGED SEVENFOLD - NIGHTMARE
9. SICK PUPPIES – ODD ONE
10. SPOSE – I’M AWESOME
11. BLACK KEYS – TIGHTEN UP
12. ALICE IN CHAINS – YOUR DECISION
13. ANBERLIN - IMPOSSIBLE
14. 30 SECONDS TO MARS – KINGS AND QUEENS
15. CAGE THE ELEPHANT – BACK AGAINST THE WALL
16. STONE SOUR – SAY YOU’LL HAUNT ME
17. SHINEDOWN – IF YOU ONLY KNEW
18. CRASH KINGS – MOUNTAIN MAN
19. THREE DAYS GRACE – THE GOOD LIFE
20. PHOENIX – LISZTOMANIA
21. BREAKING BENJAMIN – GIVE ME A SIGN
22. CHEVELLE – LETTER FROM A THIEF
23. KINGS OF LEON - RADIOACTIVE
24. SLIPKNOT – SNUFF
25. BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE – YOUR BETRAYAL
26. SICK PUPPIES - MAYBE
27. 30 SECONDS TO MARS – THIS IS WAR
28. MUMFORD & SONS – LITTLE LION MAN
29. GODSMACK – LOVE, HATE, SEX, PAIN
30. STONE TEMPLE PILOTS – BETWEEN THE LINES
31. PEARL JAM – JUST BREATHE
32. FLYLEAF – AGAIN
33. SHINEDOWN – THE CROW & THE BUTTERFLY
34. JIMMY EAT WOLRD – MY BEST THEORY
35. MUSE – UNDICLOSED DESIRES
36. DEFTONES – DIAMOND EYES
37. LINKIN PARK – THE CATALYST
38. PARAMORE – BRICK BY BORING BRICK
39. BUSH - AFTERLIFE
40. AGAINST ME! – I WAS A TEENAGE ANRACHIST
41. SWITCHFOOT – THE SOUND
42. BRANDON FLOWERS – CROSSFIRE
43. METRIC – GOLD GUNS GIRLS
44. PAPA ROACH – KICK IN THE TEETH
45. TEMPER TRAP – SWEET DISPOSITION
46. LINKIN PARK – WAITING FOR THE END
47. CRASH KINGS – YOU GOT ME
48. HELL YEAH – HELL OF A TIME
49. CAKE – SICK OF YOU
50. VIOLENT SOHO – JESUS STOLE MY GIRLFRIEND

Thursday, December 30, 2010

WDBM TOP 89 OF 2009

Here's a countdown from 2009 that I hadn't got around to recording yet. WDBM is the campus radio station of Michigan State.



1 fun. - All The Pretty Girls
2 Passion Pit - The Reeling
3 ApSci - Crazy Crazy Insane
4 Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
5 Volcano Choir - Island, IS
6 Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
7 Phoenix - 1901
8 Passion Pit - Little Secrets
9 Animal Collective - My Girls
10 Matt & Kim - Daylight
11 St. Vincent - Actor Out Of Work
12 Portugal, the Man – People Say
13 Yacht - Psychic City
14 Dan Deacon - Woof Woof
15 Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother
16 Deastro - Spritle
17 fun. - At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)
18 Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
19 Matt & Kim - Good Ol' Fashioned Nightmare
20 Andrew Bird - Oh No
21 Flight of the Conchords - Carol Brown
22 Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others
23 Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
24 of Montreal - Brush Brush Brush
25 Owl City - Fireflies
26 Thao With the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster
27 Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
28 Big Pink - Dominoes
29 Jemina Pearl f/ Iggy Pop - I Hate People
30 Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader
31 Islands - No You Don't
32 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
33 Foo Fighters - Wheels
34 Handsome Furs - I'm Confused
35 Trevor Hall f/ Matisyahu - Unity
36 Cotton Jones - Where You Stop For A Minute
37 Kings Of Convenience - Boat Behind
38 Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
39 Moby - Pale Horses
40 Peter, Bjorn & John - Nothing To Worry About
41 Raveonettes - Last Dance
42 Spoon - Got Nuffin
43 Them Crooked Vultures - New Fang
44 Whitest Boy Alive - 1517
45 Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double Or Triple
46 Camera Obscura - French Navy
47 Chairlift - Bruises
48 Fanfarlo - Harold T. Wilkins
49 Metric - Help, I'm Alive
50 N.A.S.A. f/ Lykke Li & Santigold - Gifted
51 Silversun Pickups - Substitute
52 Wilco - One Wing
53 XX - Basic Space
54 Coconut Recods - Microphone
55 Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You
56 Pearl Jam - Just Breathe
57 Wilco f/ Feist - You & I
58 Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart
59 El Perro Del Mar - Change of Heart
60 Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
61 Simian Mobile Disco f/ Chris Keating - Audacity of Huge
62 Owl City - Hello Seattle
63 Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
64 Very Best f/ Ezra Koenig - Warm Heart of Africa
65 Death Cab For Cutie - Meet Me On The Equinox
66 Echo & The Bunnymen - Think I Need It Too
67 Hockey - Too Fake
68 Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
69 Vetiver - Everybody
70 Weezer - I Want You To
71 Why? - Against Me
72 Apples in Stereo - King Of Carrot Flowers pt. 3
73 Bishop Allen - Dimmer
74 La Roux - Bulletproof
75 Chuck Ragan - Rotterdam
76 Books f/ Jose Gonzalez - Cello Song
77 Liam Finn & Eliza Jane - Plane Crash
78 Max Tundra - Which Song [Passion Pit Remix]
79 Say Anything - Do Better
80 Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy
81 Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me
82 Lily Allen - The Fear
83 Lissy Trullie - Just A Friend
84 NOFX - Creeping Out Sara
85 Paramore - Use Somebody
86 Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio
87 Taken By Trees - My Boys
88 Dodos - Fables
89 Girls - Lust For Life

CFRB Top 96 of 2010

Yes, it's an active rock station -- but it's an active rock station that plays the Vampire Weekend, Arcade Fire and Gaslight Anthem, which is more than I can say for say Chicago's Q101. On the other hand, check out what's number one!


1 Ozzy Osbourne--Let Me Hear You Scream
2 Kings Of Leon--Radioactive
3 Black Keys--Tighten Up
4 Pearl Jam--Amongst The Waves
5 Slash Feat. Andrew Stockdale--By The Sword
6 Soundgarden--Black Rain
7 Finger Eleven--Living In A Dream
8 Alice In Chains--Your Decision
9 Three Days Grace--The Good Life
10 Dirty Heads Feat. Rome--Lay Me Down
11 Danko Jones--Full Of Regret
12 Stone Temple Pilots--Between The Lines
13 Them Crooked Vultures--Mind Eraser, No Chaser
14 The Arcade Fire--Ready To Start
15 Foo Fighters--Word Forward
16 Against Me!--I Was A Teenage Anarchist
17 Metric--Gimmie Sympathy
18 Linkin Park--The Catalyst
19 Bleeker Ridge--Small Town Dead
20 Our Lady Peace--All You Did Was Save My Life
21 Jimmy Eat World--My Best Theory
22 Cage The Elephant--Shake Me Down
23 alexisonfire--The Northern
24 Cake--Sick Of You
25 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers--I Should Have Known It
26 Billy Talent--Devil On My Shoulder
27 Crash Kings--Mountain Man
28 Alice In Chains--Lesson Learned
29 The Gaslight Anthem--American Slang
30 Three Days Grace--World So Cold
31 Slash Feat. Myles Kennedy--Back From Cali
32 Social Distortion--Machine Gun Blues
33 Crash Karma--Awake
34 My Darkest Days--Porn Star Dancing
35 30 Seconds To Mars--Kings And Queens
36 Airbourne--Blonde Bad And Beautiful
37 Nickelback--Burn It To The Ground
38 Cypress Hill--Rise Up
39 Violent Soho--Jesus Stole My Girlfriend
40 Ozzy Osbourne--Life Won't Wait
41 The Dead Weather--Die By The Drop
42 Papa Roach--Kick In The Teeth
43 Jack Johnson--You And Your Heart
44 alexisonfire--The Dead Heart
45 Gord Downie & The Country Of Miracles--The East Wind
46 Billy Talent--Saint Veronika
47 Bush--Afterlife
48 Metric--Gold Guns Girls
49 Bedouin Soundclash--Mountain Top
50 Danko Jones--Active Volcanoes
51 Mumford & Sons--Little Lion Man
52 Cage The Elephant--Back Against The Wall
53 Slipknot--Snuff
54 The Trews--Highway Of Heroes
55 Hail The Villian--Take Back The Fear
56 Bobnoxious--Long Night
57 Stone Sour--Say You'll Haunt Me
58 Airbourne--No Way But The Hard Way
59 Thornely--Man Overboard
60 Our Lady Peace--Dreamland
61 Hole--Skinny Little Bitch
62 Arkells--John Lennon
63 Baptized In Blood--Dirty's Back
64 Default--Turn It On
65 Disturbed--Another Way To Die
66 Crash Karma--Fight
67 Billy Talent--Diamond On A Landmine
68 Black Mountain--Old Fangs
69 My Chemical Romance--Na Na Na
70 Godsmack--Cryin' Like A Bitch
71 Rise Against--Long Forgotten Sons
72 Metric--Stadium Love
73 Daniel Wesley--Drunk And Stoned
74 My Chemical Romance--Sing
75 alexisonfire--Midnight Regulations
76 Airbourne--Bottom Of The Well
77 Bad Religion--The Devil In Stiches
78 Tokyo Police Club--Wait Up (Boots Of Danger)
79 The Gaslight Anthem--Boxer
80 Broken Social Scene--Forced To Love
81 Apocalyptica Feat. Gavin Rossdale--End Of Me
82 Matthew Good--Last Parade
83 Taylor Hawkins & The Coattails Riders--Way Down
84 Mumford & Sons--The Cave
85 Hail The Villian--Runaway
86 Against Me!--White Crosses
87 Hot Hot Heat--Goddess On The Prairie
88 Coheed And Cambria--Here We Are The Juggernaut
89 Gord Downie & The Country Of Miracles--The Drowning Machine
90 Johnny Cash--Ain't No Grave
91 Jay Malinowski--Santa Monica
92 Saving Abel--The Sex Is Good
93 Vampire Weekend--Cousins
94 Broken Bells--The High Road
95 Skag Barons--The Better Things
96 Weezer--Memories

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

WERG Top 90 of 2010

WERG is the campus station of Gannon Univesity in Erie Pa. It plays a mix of alternative/AAA/active rock tunes and acts as the de facto alternative station for that city.

1. Mumford and Sons/Little Lion Man
2. The Kings of Leon/Radioactive
3. The Neon Trees/Animal
4. Train/Hey, Soul Sister
5. Phoenix/1901
6. The Black Keys/Tighten Up
7. Maroon 5/Misery
8. Brandon Flowers/Crossfire
9. Jimmy Eat World/My Best Theory
10. The Sick Puppies/Maybe
11. Owl City/Fireflies
12. Foo Fighters/Wheels
13. Broken Bells/The High Road
14. Muse/Undisclosed Desire
15. Temper Trap/Fader
16. Jack Johnson/At or With Me
17. John Mayer/Half of My Heart
18. Paramore/The Only Exception
19. The Elms/Back to Indiana
20. Alice in Chains/Your Decision
21. 30 Seconds to Mars/Kings and Queens
22. Band of Horses/Laredo
23. Vampire Weekend/Cousins
24. Keane/My Shadow
25. Snow Patrol/Just Say Yes
26. Arcade Fire/Ready To Start
27. The Broken Bells/The Ghost Inside
28. Linkin Park/The Catalyst
29. Phoenix/Lisztomania
30. The Scissor Sisters/Fire with Fire
31. Finger Eleven/Living in a Dream
32. Three Days Grace/World So Cold
33. Stone Sour/Say You’ll Haunt Me
34. Anberlin/Impossible
35. The Dave Matthews Band/You and Me
36. Panic at the Disco/New Perspective
37. Muse/Resistance
38. The Gorillaz/Rhinestone Eyes
39. The Crash Kings/You Got Me
40. Owl City/Vanilla Twilight
41. Civil Twilight/Letters from the Sky
42. The Dirty Heads/Stand Tall
43. Empire of the Sun/Walking on a Dream
44. Green Day/Last of the American Girls
45. Metric/Eclipse
46. Blue October/Should Be Loved
47. Vampire Weekend/Giving Up the Gun
48. Jack Johnson/You and Your Heart
49. Spoon/Written in Reverse
50. Against Me/Teenage Anarchist
51. Kings of Leon/Crawl
52. Flyleaf/Missing
53. Michael Franti & Spearhead/The Sound of Sunshine
54. Train/If It’s Love
55. Guster/Do You Love Me
56. Cage the Elephant/In One Ear
57. Breaking Benjamin/Lights Out
58. Alice in Chains/Lessons Learned
59. 30 Seconds to Mars/Closer to the Edge
60. Tegan & Sara/Northshore
61. Passion Pit/Little Secrets
62. Paramore/Brick by Boring Brick
63. Temper Trap/Sweet Disposition
64. Empire of the Sun/We Are the People
65. M.G.M.T/It’s Working
66. Alpha Rev/New Morning
67. Paramore/Careful
68. The Gorillaz/Stylo
69. The Dirty Heads/Lay Me Down
70. The Foo Fighters/Word for Word
71. Breaking Benjamin/Give Me a Sign
72. We the Kings/Heaven Can Wait
73. Chevelle/Letter from a Thief
74. The Crash Kings/Mountain Man
75. Metric/Gold, Girls, Guns
76. Train/Save Me, San Francisco
77. The Silversun Pickups/Substitution
78. The Cold War Kids/Audience
79. Tegan & Sara/Alligator Tears
80. The Bravery/Slow Poison
81. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes/Home
82. Mayday Parade/The Silence
83. Shinedown/If You Only Knew
84. Seawolf/O, Maria!
85. Switchfoot/The Sound
86. Keane/Stop for a Minute
87. Owl City/The Saltwater Room
88. Weezer/I’m Your Daddy
89. OK Go/This Too Shall Pass
90. Three Days Grace/The Good Life
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Friday, December 17, 2010

First Countdown of 2010 -- WTMD

The AAA station for Towson College -- their listeners apparently have good taste

1. Tighten Up by the The Black Keys
2. Forget You by Cee-Lo Green
3. Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons
4. Paris (Ooh La La) by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
5. MoneyGrabber by Fitz and the Tantrums
6. Zorbing by Stornoway
7. Laredo by Band Of Horses
8. Slippin by Quadron
9. Beg, Steal & Borrow by Ray Lamontagne & the Pariah Dogs
10. Rill Rill by Sleigh Bells
11. Ready to Start by Arcade Fire
12. Rolling in the Deep by Adele
13. Witchcraft by Matt Costa
14. BloodBuzz Ohio by The National
15. Empire by Jukebox the Ghost
16. Father's Son by Fistful of Mercy
17. The Mystery Zone by Spoon
18. From Above by Ben Folds
19. How I Wonder by Victoria Vox
20. Breakin the Chains of Love by Fitz & the Tantrums
21. Giving up the Gun by Vampire Weekend
22. The High Road by Broken Bells
23. Shadow People by Dr. Dog
24. Zebra by Beach House
25. Airplanes by Local Natives
26. Don't Break the Needle by J Roddy Walston & the Business
27. Sprawl II by Arcade Fire
28. Sweetest Thing by JJ Grey & Mofro
29. Radioactive by Kings of Leon
30. Haul Me Up by Richard Thompson
31. She Needs Me by Fyfe Dangerfield
32. Head Full of Doubt by Avett Brothers
33. Blue Streak Mama by Frazey Ford
34. We Used To Wait by Arcade Fire
35. Tightrope by Janelle Monae
36. Dilly of Band Of Horses
37. Boyfriend by Best Coast
38. Crash Years by New Pornographers
39. Always by Junip
40. Modern Man by Arcade Fire
41. Hannah by Freelance Whales
42. Wake Up Everybody by John Legend and The Roots
43. Total Life Forever by Foals
44. Do You Love Me by Guster
45. The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
46. In Sleep by Lissie
47. Hey Hey Hey by Michael Franti and Spearhead
48. Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap
49. Cousins by Vampire Weekend
50. Compared to What by John Legend and The Roots
51. The Ghost Inside by Broken Bells
52. When My Time Comes by Dawes
53. Colors by April Smith
54. Dance Yrself Clean by LCD Sound System
55. Angel Dance by Robert Plant
56. Hit 'em Up Style by The Carolina Chocolate Drops
57. Everlasting Light by The Black Keys
58. I Can Change by LCD Soundsystem
59. My Time by Minus the Bear
60. For the Summer by Ray Lamontagne & the Pariah Dogs
61. Let Him Go by The Meckatones
62. Norway by Beach House
63. Scissor Runner Jenny and Johnny
64. Amazing by One Eskimo
65. In the Sun by She and Him
66. One Day by Sharon Van Etten
67. Boy by Ra Ra Riot
68. Down by the Water by The Decembrists
69. Weekenders by The Hold Steady
70. Ambling Alp by Yeasayer
71. What's In it for? by Avi Buffalo
72. Howlin' For You by The Black Keys
73. If It Wasn't For Bad by Elton John & Leon Russell II
74. Madder Red by Yeasayer
75. On Melancholy Hill by Gorillaz
76. Burn It Down by Los Lobos
77. Half A Mind by Jason Spooner
78. Brave Man's Death by J. Roddy Walston & the Business
79. Written In Reverse by Spoon
80. Next Girl by The Black Keys
81. American Slang by Gaslight Anthem
82. On the Road to Charlie Parker by Anders Osborne
83. One Day by Kings Go Forth
84. I Believe In You by Black Dub
85. You Wouldn't Have to Ask by Bad Books
86. Bad Things by Jace Everett
87. WTF? by Ok Go
88. Conversation Missed by Benny Marchant
89. Hollywood by Codeine Velvet Club