Though it was overplayed, I’m going with Gotye for this year. Alternative songs from 2012 I liked:
Metz - Headache
Bob Mould - The Descent
The Men - Open Your Heart
Chromatics - Kill For Love
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Jeremy
King Tuff - Unusual World
Redd Kross - Stay Away From Downtown
Crocodiles - Endless Flowers
Off! - Wiped Out
Toy - My Heart Skips A Beat
“Lonely Boy” is a carryover from 2011, and the song I voted for in that poll to boot, but I gotta give it the rub again this year. The Black Keys are hands-down the best modern band with a classic rock sound, and “Lonely Boy” is one of their best (joined with such not-appearing-in-this-poll-series greats as “Little Black Submarines”, “Gotta Get Away”, and “Howling For You”.
I am surprised at how durable the Lumineers song is - and how I can’t stand to hear Mumford and Sons anymore.
fun. really stood out to me. I guess I will go with We Are Young 'cuz I like Janelle Monae, too.
decent year.
I like the Blackies. I voted for Gold on the Ceiling.
I’m going off the beaten path this year and picking a song that has no chance whatsoever in the poll. I thought “Too Close” is a very underrated song. It’s nothing fancy, but I just think it’s a really solid effort.
Man, if the 1989 Myself had heard the songs in this list, I’d be thinking why are they playing songs from the Pop and Folk charts?
Eh, also remember ripping that Goyte song for a lady friend at the time, and not really loving it no matter how much the rest of mankind did. Also, I thought Fun’s ‘We Are Young’ was in a lot more commercials than Wiki states it was. Oh well, guess it just seemed that way.
OK, can give Lonely Boys it’s up-vote now…
2012 Also Rans from Playlist research. Hmm, I see Bush, No Doubt, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarten, Offspring and Green Day are represented there. While I like their songs on that list, even I have to admit those songs would NOT have been out of place being played on WDRE 20 years earlier. Not entirely sure what that means :dubious:
“Tongue Tied” by Group Love!
So as it turns out, 2012 is the year that “rock” completely gave up. Even in the extended list, there are what, four or five songs that would have fit in with a rock station five years before? Chevelle, Volbeat, holdovers from Three Days Grace and The Offspring, Soundgarden’s attempt at a new release, and that’s the list. Black Keys started getting rock radio play around then, I guess - while I think they fit in really well since they’re so strongly influenced by classic rock, they just weren’t on those playlists prior to El Camino, at least not on the east coast.
On the plus side, this was an excellent year for “alternative”. Gotye was overplayed because it was a great track, and outside of The Lumineers and I-still-can’t-handle-how-far-you’ve-fallen Linkin Park, this is a stacked list. Did Imagine Dragons just not get popular until the following year? Because they’re heavy in the also-rans as well and in my memory they were the biggest thing in this time period.
Anyways, I went with Gold on the Ceiling, which I like a bit more than Lonely Boy. If Little Black Submarines had made it higher than the #2 it peaked at, that would have been the vote.
I have to say, I keep getting surprised at what tops these Modern/Alternative charts. It really just is mainstream rock, ain’t it? Anyhow, I went with “We Are Young,” but I can’t say I’m particularly riveted by any of these.“Lonely Boy” ain’t bad, either. “Somebody I Used to Know” for some reason sounds like a Sting, or possibly Police, song to me, though I can’t place what song it’s reminding me of (or maybe it just has that general white reggae-ish vibe to it). I have to keep reminding myself it’s Gotye.
That’s the only one I’ve never heard. I will have to check it out. I’ve probably heard every of other song on the list 1000s of times and still unintentionally hear some, like the Black Keys songs, regularly today.
True, that. It got my vote.
Rest of his stuff is very good, too (although it seems Kimbra’s the one getting all the attention nowadays, which is fair do’s, I suppose.)