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The 2009 Year-End Crazy Ambition
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I'm with you on "21 Guns" losing its edge and "Russian Roulette" leaving us cold.
"The Fixer," on the other hand, is fantastic! A simple, straightforward, no nonsense good time.
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Matisyahu, Chevelle, Incubus.
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7/10
"21 Guns" <33333333333
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Great set here Ryan! Lovin' ze Pearl Jam.
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9/10
I'm as surprised as you are that "One Day" didn't become a hit. Out of the rest, there is nothing I can say I truly love or hate. I could give you a 10 but this list of 10 didn't have as much of an impact on me as the previous 10 so therefore you get a 9.
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A perfect set. BRAVO SIR!
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21 Guns, Russian Roulette & Supernova are my favorites of this set
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Russian Roulette and 21 Guns are both love. Keep ****in' that chciken, Ryan.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Master Shake
Russian Roulette and 21 Guns are both love. Keep ****in' that chciken, Ryan.
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You don't like Matisyahu?!!!??!?!
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Rihanna and GD
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Green Day & Ladytron
I don't like Russian Roulette
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I'm not a big fan of Pearl Jam, but I have to say that "The Fixer" is a great song!
Ladytron <333333333
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21, Russian Roulette, Let's go crazy <333333
Didn't know Kittie had new music. If i tell you the last song i heard from them you would choke and then choke me :-°
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Russian Roulette seems to grow on everyone, including me here. Good stuff. I also like 21 Guns, Supernova, and The Fixer.
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Rihanna, Green Day, Ladytron, Pearl Jam and Kittie
OMG at "21 Guns" that low. Check my list, you will love my set, seriously
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PJ, GD, and Ri.
I agree - such solid tunes, but yeah, not worthy of being incredibly high.
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21 Guns & Russian Roulette. No, I'm not a killer.
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ladytron
fixer and incubus
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The 2009 YECA: Top 100 Singles of 2009 (80-71)
I feel like today is going to be a day where I start pumping these out once every couple of hours. It just feels like one of those productive days. Regardless, let's kick New Year's Eve off with 80-71!
Where to begin here? Honestly, I wouldn't call the music that spectacular. The lyrics are pretty average, admittedly. The vocals are powerful and Pat Benetar-esque, but that's not enough to completely carry the song. I still, for the life of me, cannot figure out why I like this song as much as I do. Is it possible that that Pat Benetar comparison holds true, just if paired with a more hard rock band?
I mean, really, this song is just so catchy. All I need to say here is that song was inducted into the Catchy Songs Hall of Fame the moment Tonight: Franz Ferdinand first leaked. It was a freaking iPod song! That is all you need to know.
First off, if I terrified you with that picture in the graphic, good. That was the intent. Now, I know that I say (and will say) about many of the songs that they are too low on the countdown. Here's one that I'm probably going to look back at a year from now and wonder what the hell is wrong with me for putting it so low. It's just a complete tour de force of a metal tune, fierce and blistering in its pace, and it even features a chorus that is extremely fun to sing-along to!
Out of the three songs that qualified as "singles" from Manson's The High End of Low, this is the lowest. That's right, the only one with a slight amount of chart success is the one that wound up being the lowest. I'm turning into Johnald, aren't I? But I digress. It's still a very catchy song with a wonderful glam feeling that harkens back to Manson's glory days of the late 90's.
Just like Manson, this is the lowest of three Slipknot singles to make the top 100. Of course, this also wasn't a lead single, just a throwaway single between two far bigger singles (which are both much higher on this very countdown). It's just a shame that I didn't connect to this one more than I did, because, especially today, it's a song that I should have loved, adored, and then loved again. It's so bleak and dreary, and I can definitely love some bleak and dreary.
This was the only song (repeat: only song) off of U2's latest, No Line on the Horizon, that honestly felt like it could possibly stand up to U2's greatest songs. It sounds like what U2 SHOULD sound like in 2009: slightly revamped and updated to match the 2009 sound, but still sounding like U2, in the process. I totally dig the drum beat in this song in this song, by the way. Larry Mullen, Jr. never gets enough credit for being a drum god, if you ask me. Did you know that U2 was originally called "The Larry Mullen Band"? No joke.
Oh, you weren't expecting this one, were you? We tend to talk a lot of **** about Creed, and how Scott Stapp is an arrogant jerk, and, in some cases (especially in the case of Stapp being a jerk), it's true. But one thing that you CANNOT dispute is that Stapp's bandmates can be musically impressive, if given the opportunity. This was proven in the band that followed Creed, Alter Bridge, and it is proven here, as Stapp takes a back seat to a very driving and powerful song, with a solo to match.
How about another shocker? You may or may not have expected this to be top 30, maybe even top 20. Nope. It was up in that area for a long time, but time was not kind to this great, down-to-Earth Kings of Leon song that barely made a blip as a single. That's okay, because I still appreciate it for being a song that you can use to cool down with in any situation. This is the kind of song that was made for starry nights, just staring out at the sky while Caleb Followill carries you to a higher place.
As you start moving up the countdown, you will notice a lot of songs that could have made the top 30 in most years, if not higher. Case in point, "Crawl Back In" by Chester Bennington's side project with Julien-K, Dead by Sunrise. It's a nice introduction to the Dead by Sunrise universe, though it is more of a middle ground song, meant to introduce people to the band, while not scaring them away before they reach the real meat and juice of the album itself. 2009 was just a solid year for singles, hence why this is a top 100, as opposed to a top 50.
"Hey, hey, hey. Goodbye. GOOD RIDDANCE." The only reason this song is not higher (and by higher, I mean "top 50" higher) is because, if anything, it did more to bring Autotune into the spotlight than actually do anything to bring Autotune down, once and for all. The song itself is fiery, one of Jay-Z's more brutal beatdowns, with a bombastic beat to go along with it. It's just a shame that people took this song in a different direction than was originally intended.
80-71 is d-u-n done. Coming up: The single most diverse block of the top 100, as we delve into a metal, pop and rock-infested jungle of ten tunes. Stay tuned, because the ride's about to get even bumpier.
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You're on the shitlist for no show last night + Creed.
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