Bonus Countdown: All-Time Top Alternative Songs (ca 2013) (Part 1)

Gorillaz

As you read this, I am in a van driving to Disney, Florida. I hope you are having a great Saturday so far and I hope this episode makes it better! You should go for a drive, too. Let's sync up our experiences! I'll try to put this on around noon (when it posts) as long as I think of it.

So in 2013 Billboard celebrated 25 years of our beloved Alternative Songs (nee Hot Modern Rock Tracks) chart. We celebrated by listening to the first Top Ten. Now we're going to spend the next two weeks counting down the Top 20 on this list that is just over 2 years old. I don't know how the past two years have affected things and I guess we won't know until 2038, when the chart celebrates 50 years ;-) (jk. I'm sure that there'll be something to commemorate the 30th anniversary)

So enjoy Part 1 of 2 Bonus Countdowns!


All-Time Top Alternative Songs (ca 2013) (Part 1)

***Featuring***
Audioslave
Gorillaz
Green Day
Lit
Live
Love and Rockets
Nickleback
Nirvana
Oasis
Staind
U2

New Countdown: The Boy Who Played With Alternative Songs

Walk the Moon

If I'm being honest, this podcast is late because I'm really really into the book I'm reading. And publishing it on time fell slightly below just blasting through it. It's The Girl Who Played With Fire which is the sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. It's super super compelling.

Please don't take my choices to indicate a bad week on the countdown, though. It was definitely a good one. We have such great songs on the show these days. Enjoy!

PS. Have you noticed that a full 60% of the songs on the Top Ten are by artists with names that start with either F or M? Weeeird.


Countdown #243

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
Death Cab For Cutie
Florence + the Machine
Foo Fighters
Milky Chance
Modest Mouse
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Robert DeLong
U2
Walk the Moon

New Countdown: Yeah, It's Late. But I think You'll Forgive Me

Young the Giant

Ok. Hi. So I know that everyone was super disappointed not to see the new countdown up yesterday, but the truth is that we were doing some major cleaning around the house and when I looked up, it was WAY later than I thought, and it was just not going to work to stay up putting this together

BUT I think you'll be ok with it. What I'm saying is that this countdown is literally CHOCK FULL of countdowny goodness so I feel alright with putting it up a little late. Enjoy! See you in about 100 minutes!

Countdown #181

***Featuring***
Arctic Monkeys
Bastille
Cage the Elephant
Fitz & the Tantrums
Imagine Dragons
Linkin Park
Lorde
The Neighbourhood
Pearl Jam
U2
Vampire Weekend
The White Stripes
Young the Giant

Monthly Poll: U2 - Zooropa

So I want to focus a little more on these Alternative Album Grammy Winners that I'm playing for bonus songs on the Countdown. So I think, on the first Monday of every month, I'm going to do a little retrospective poll related to the album from the proceeding month.

So, January's album was U2's Zooropa

Please answer the following questions in the comments section. (If you don't have an answer, feel free to skip the question)

1. What is your favorite track on Zooropa? (Spotify)

• Zooropa
• Babyface
• Numb
• Lemon
• Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
• Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
• Some Days Are Better Than Others
• The First Time
• Dirty Day
• The Wanderer

2. What is your favorite U2 album?

3. Which do you feel should have won the Grammy, if not Zooropa:

• Belly Star
• Nirvana In Utero
• Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
• R.E.M. Automatic For the People

New Countdown! Same Layout!

Well, Billboard changed the layout of their site between Friday night and Saturday morning. It's so disorienting but I'm managing. Thanks for your concern :)

Countdown #137

***Featuring***
Atlas Genius
The Black Keys
fun.
Imagine Dragons
The Lumineers
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Of Monsters and Men
Silversun Pickups
U2

New Countdown: "I Have a Dream" Version

Hey everyone!

Well, for the first year, I will be acknowledging the holiday on Monday. Not because I have made a point of not acknowledging it before, but because this is the first time that I've remembered that the holiday is on its way in time to make note of it on the show!

This is a good show, if I do say so myself, but there are one or two intros that I think I may have let my mind lead my tongue way off the beaten path. Oh well, such is life, I suppose :)

Countdown #136

***Featuring***
Atlas Genius
The Black Keys
fun.
Imagine Dragons
The Lumineers
Mumford and Sons
Muse
Of Monsters and Men
Passion Pit
Silversun Pickups
U2

And we're back! New Countdown, New Year!

It's 2013 and we find ourselves where we always do in the hazy morning of the week after an Artists of the Year Countdown: Back to work. It's a countdown this week that kicks things off with 3 songs we've never heard on the show before. So that's fun! (and 2 other bands as well ;-) )

Countdown #135

***FEATURING***
Atlas Genius
The Black Keys
fun.
Imagine Dragons
The Lumineers
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Of Monsters and Men
Passion Pit
Silversun Pickups
U2 featuring Johnny Cash

Day 2!

Well, here we are on day 2 of the Appetite For Distraction Podcast Marathon (or something like that) which will see a new podcast posted every day at 830 (with the exception of yesterday's when I didn't know that I was doing the 830 thing) until Monday! Today's podcast is....

Countdown #61

***Featuring***
The Airborne Toxic Event
AWOLNATION
Coldplay
Death Cab for Cutie
Foo Fighters
Foster the People
Incubus
Rise Against
Seether
Sublime with Rome
U2

Flashback Countdown for Memorial Day

Well, I'm here in Boston and it's time for the first, non-annual, whenever i need to go away for a while Flashback Countdown!!

Enjoy and have a great weekend! I'll see you next week. I can tell you that this week's chart was full of shake-ups so next week should be VERY interesting :)

Flashback Countdown #1