Remember the days when hard rock artists were able to release a ballad without having to justify their inclusion on an album?  With the power of social media, everyone can be a critic, and fans are not shy about questioning their favorite bands for expanding their horizons.  As I read Sully Erna’s interview stating that he can’t spend time worrying about the reaction from metal fans for including “Under Your Scars” on the band’s most recent release, it made me wish that there was greater barrier to entry for fans to share their opinions.  It’s not only unfair, but totally unrealistic to expect artists to remain inside some preconceived box as their sound evolves with maturity.  Any fans who can’t appreciate “Under Your Scars” because it isn’t heavy enough, are too closed-minded to fully appreciate an artist. Terms of Use [32] THE RAVEN AGE – “Fleur de lis”. [1] SHINEDOWN – “ATTENTION ATTENTION”. You might be thinking that the #99 position doesn’t show much gratitude to a friend like this, but “Breathe” was placed here for a specific reason…the flow of the playlist.  The song is so unique, that it fit best as the opening act (so to speak) for the final song of the year (and decade)…, The kneejerk reaction to seeing Tool is the #100 position is probably one of confusion, if not downright outrage.  But there are a few reasons that Tool is anchoring this annual list this year…. The first song that I heard was “Gimme Gimme Rockaway.”  I was instantly hooked.  With the exception of those familiar with “Rockaway Beach” by the Ramones, it’s likely that those outside the NYC area are probably not too familiar with this tightknit community.  A community that has a number of people who work for the NYPD or FDNY.  A community that suffered tremendous loss on 9/11, and then again when Hurricane Sandy devastated the area. Fast forward 20 years.  Buckcherry is still going strong with their eighth studio album, Warpaint.  They headline shows, but not the arenas that I figured they would.  They get radio play, but not as much as they should.  Had they made their debut a decade earlier, history would probably tell a different story about Josh Todd and company.  Still, the band continues to deliver a rock and roll swagger that is virtually unrivaled. However, Shinedown can do it successfully because of their previous track record, and more importantly, because of the brilliant, soulful, unique vocals of Brent Smith. © 2019 Billboard. Find out now! Filed Under: Hard Rock Song Lists Tagged With: Active Rock Songs 2019, Alter Bridge, Badflower, Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch, Godsmack, Mike Portnoy, Myles Kennedy, Shinedown, Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, Slipknot, Songs Played On Octane, Top 100 Hard Rock Songs of 2019. Thanks for all of your hard work throughout the year. Although the song might be looked at as sad or depressing, in a way, it’s actually an uplifting reminder that our choices shape our future.  Once again, there seems to be a Yin and Yang at play here, where joy and pain coexist.  “Zombie” is the song that put Bad Wolves on the map.  The success of their inspired cover has to feel bittersweet given the fact that Dolores O’Riordan was supposed to contribute vocals on the day of her tragic passing. Tesla doesn’t necessarily feel like a band that has been around for several decades, but they have.  I was one of the fortunate ones to be in attendance when they played their first American arena show in October of 1987 as the opening act for Def Leppard.  But I digress…. It doesn’t matter whether you think of Sum 41 as punk, pop punk, skater punk, or something else.  The bottom line is that “Out For Blood” is a song that transcends any sub-genre in a way that is both edgy and fun.  This is exactly the kind of music that is needed to escape the news and the palpable tension that seems to be pervading society today.  Ironically, the song seems to be tackling that very issue.  However, it is done in a way that conjures up the joyful defiance and “us against the world” mentality that is the foundation upon which punk rock is built.  Is it a case of misery loves company?  Perhaps, but at its core, “Out For Blood” feels more like a unifying anthem than anything else. https://beginnerguitar.pro/easy-guitar-rock-songs-for-beginners W The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending December 28, 2019. View Charts Legend. [40] TAKE THE DAY – “Song For The Broken”. Even if fans never act on the inspirational messages contained within the lyrics of Shinedown songs, there is something cathartic and healing about their brand of rock and roll.  To fully appreciate their impact, you need to see them perform live.  They are every bit as good as the legends who filled arenas back in the day. If you read the band’s bio, you might think that the thing that makes them “special” is their rock and roll heritage.  Trev Lukather on guitar, and Sam Porcaro on bass is only part of the story.  Yes, Lukather’s dad (Steve) is the original lead guitarist of Toto, and Porcaro’s dad (Mike) was the bass player in the band for over two decades, but this band is not Toto 2.0. I eventually realized that Tate and the rest of the band were headed in different directions both musically and personally.  The time came to embrace the change.  Which brings us to today…. California Privacy Rights Whenever I listen to Crash Midnight, I am taken back in time to the early days of Def Leppard and Guns N’ Roses.  This band has an “it factor” that makes you wonder how big they would have been if they made their debut in the mid-‘80s. Over the course of the past 15 years, Alter Bridge has been remarkably consistent (releasing albums every three years like clockwork), while also evolving as time passes.  This evolution can be heard in both the band’s sound and their lyrics. In 2019, Savage Messiah released their fifth album since their formation over a decade ago.  This UK metal band (now on their third record label) has made a splash across the pond, but has yet to breakthrough in America because their brand of metal has trouble finding footing on radio.  With the heaviness and speed of The Big Four thrash icons, Savage Messiah blends the melodic qualities of European power metal.  “The Bitter Truth” features thunderous speed metal drumming, classic dual guitar thrash riffs, soulful raspy vocals, and a surprising twist of melodic vocal harmonies. According to frontman Michael Del Pizzo…, ” ‘Turn Away’ was coming to fruition no matter how many times we tried to toss it aside.  It just seemed to have a life of its own, and is now what we consider to be the most important track of our career.”. Steel Panther is known for embracing every aspect of the hair bands of the ‘80s and writing songs that would make even the most debaucherous rockers of that era blush.  By way of comparison, “She’s Tight” borders on childlike innocence for the band, but they do this Cheap Trick cover justice.  It certainly helps to have Robin Zander providing guest vocals on the track.  Though Steel Panther has their fair share of Generation X fans, they also appeal to a younger audience, one that may not even be familiar with the 1982 original version of the song.  The 2019 version stays pretty true to the original.  All these years later, it’s still a song that brings a smile to your face and makes you groove to the beat. But his rock and roll journey began back in 2002 as a member of Edge Of Forever.  The band released their fourth album in 2019, leaving a gap of a decade between albums. Knowing the backstory makes this high octane track even more intriguing. Crash Midnight is the epitome of a rock and roll band that fully embraces the lifestyle that made bands like Aerosmith, Guns N’ Roses, and Motley Crue famous.  With a timeless, blues rock sound, this is a band that will resonate with fans who long for the days of larger-than-life rock stars. Discovering N’Tribe presented a bit of a challenge, at least when it came to matching the band with the song.  On more than one occasion, I heard “Staring Down The Barrel” as a commercial after another song played on YouTube.  It’s a bit odd that YouTube doesn’t let you know what you’re listening to, because it kind of defeats the purpose of the ad.  It took writing down a decent amount of the lyrics in Google to match the song to the band.  It was worth the extra effort though. “Gimme Gimme Rockaway” is not about the tragic moments that have hit the area in recent times.  Quite the opposite!  It’s an homage to life in and around the area.  While not quite in the pure punk realm of The Ramones, there is a punk quality to the song that is definitively New York.  There’s also a little bit of the glam of the Sunset Strip infused into the song.  You don’t have to be able to relate personally or feel the nostalgia of the lyrics to appreciate this killer tune. When Jon and I met for the first time earlier in the year, we went out to grab drinks and a bite to eat.  An overall fun and enlightening evening that we jokingly refer to as “The Broccoli Incident.”  Let’s just say that neither one of us expected our first meeting to result in my needing the Heimlich maneuver to “breathe.”  Thankfully, things turned out okay, and I was able to continue putting out these year-end lists. About a month after revealing the diagnosis, Pretty Maids released the song “Will You Still Kiss Me (If I See You In Heaven).”  Musically, the song has an upbeat melodic vibe, but lyrically, it tells an entirely different story.  One of loss, and watching someone that you love slip away.  It’s a cruel twist of fate that the song was released shortly after Atkins’ surprising diagnosis.  Though a bit eerie, it was not written from the perspective of a man facing his own mortality. I can’t tell you the exact day that I discovered most artists, but I can tell you the day that I discovered Steve Conte.  It was 9/11/19.  A mutual friend of ours shared Conte’s post about his first cousin, who by a seemingly miraculous twist of fate, ended up being the lone survivor of the Engine 33 firefighters who responded to the call to the Twin Towers.  The firehouse is located in the neighborhood where both of my parents grew up, and where my grandmother lived until she passed away in her mid-90s.  The story, and the kinship that I felt with Conte before ever listening to his music was established by a bond that ties New Yorkers together, especially those of us who have close ties to the events of 9/11. [78] STEEL PANTHER (f. ROBIN ZANDER) – “She’s Tight”. It’s taken me forty years to realize that Foreigner’s “Dirty White Boy” is actually a bit ironic.  The song is as clean and melodic as the band itself.  I heard shades of “Dirty White Boy” in the opening vocals of “Helluva Ride,” but in this case, it is not at all ironic.  Frontman Dylan Villain is dirty in the way that you want your rock stars to be. It wasn’t shocking to see the movie glamorizing the debauchery of Crue in the ’80s…sex, drugs, rock n’ roll and a healthy dose of devil-may-care destruction.  These days, the band would probably never get away with the damage that they left in their wake during the decade of decadence.  If you grew up listening to Crue, you couldn’t help but smile throughout the movie and get pangs of nostalgia for the good old days. “Drowning In The Sound” is a single that is rumored to be a holdover from Trivium’s 2017 album, The Sin And The Sentence.  If this is true, and it was done intentionally, it was a shrewd decision on Trivium’s part.  It seems like the next logical step in artist promotion to release singles on a regular basis.  Gone are the days where most artists can come off the road for any length of time to record.  As a result, the album cycles have continued to grow with artists putting out albums every 2-3 years.  The challenge with an album is that once it’s released, the limited shelf life immediately starts to kick in.  Usually with a few days of an album release, all of the songs can be streamed by the masses.  By holding songs over to release purely as singles, artists get to keep fresh material on hand. [7] ALTER BRIDGE – “Wouldn’t You Rather”. The Dead Daisies were already on the scene long before the classic rock revival started to take hold for modern hard rock bands. Studies have shown that we form our impression of someone within the first seven seconds of meeting them.  Some research even has shown that it takes only a tenth of a second to start determining traits like trustworthiness.  Even if we don’t consciously “judge a book by its cover,” we do so subconsciously.  Standards may change, but the scientific process remains. Wanting to know more about the band, I did some digging, and found out that the band originally formed as a four-piece unit in 1991 under the moniker Bold As Love.  Another name change a few years later, followed by a personnel change, and eventual disbanding in 2000.  They reformed as Bold As Love in 2010 and released an independent album in 2012.  Shortly thereafter, they became a three-piece unit, and changed their name to Sonny Jim (a name that might be familiar to people in the UK, but not likely in other places).  The band’s name comes from a famous line in a Welsh sports comedy film of the ‘70s…“What’s up with you, Sonny Jim?”, “Don’t Know What You Got Til It’s Gone” has nothing to do with Cinderella, but there is a connection in both bands influences and sounds. [62] SONNY JIM – “Don’t Know What You Got Til It’s Gone”. CoreLeoni is an interesting original/cover hybrid band.  At least it is for guitarist Leo Leoni, one of the co-founders of the Swiss hard rock band, Gotthard.  This popular European band was somewhat derailed by the tragic death of co-founder, vocalist Steve Lee in 2010.  Lee was replaced by Nic Maeder. Thanks! [96] MATT MITCHELL & THE COLDHEARTS – “Black Diamonds”. They were already an easy band to root for before the accident, even more so afterwards.  This is not to say that they only deserve attention for overcoming adversity.  Shallow Side is one of the more intriguing up-and-coming bands on the scene today.  Aside from their natural appeal to Active Rock radio listeners, they also have an appreciation for classic rock.  Take a listen to their outstanding cover of “Renegade” by Styx, and listen for riffs in “Sound The Alarm” that are reminiscent of Bad Company’s “Feel Like Making Love.” Â, [70] DISMANTLE – “Better When You’re Gone”. Individuals like to come up with their weirdest best dance moves when rock songs with a catchy chorus are playing. One of the most versatile modern rock bands in recent memory is also one of the most underrated.  If generic Active Rock is a puddle of standing water, Royal Bliss is a free flowing river filled with unexpected twists and turns.  In recent times, the band has vacillated between a southern rock sound with country flair to classic hard rock that harkens back to the ’80s to their current single which seems to be right in the Active Rock pocket.  But there is nothing generic about “Pain.”  Buoyed by an atypical, staccato riff, this song grabs your attention from the first note. At times, it has a melodic Papa Roach vibe. [72] TRIVIUM – “Drowning In The Sound”. “Bent” is mixture of charisma, angst, and rage, but it’s not about binging on drugs or debaucherous sex; it’s about battling inner demons.  This kind of self-actualization only comes after experiencing the highs and lows of life, and having the maturity to realize that power comes from within.  At face value, “Bent” is a powerful song that doesn’t stray too far from the foundation that Buckcherry has laid over the past two decades. However, if you peel back the layers of the meaning behind the song, that power is magnified in an inspirational way. Annual Report 2019; Best of the 2010s; Top 100 Albums; Top 100 Songs; Top 100 Singers; Top 100 Music Venues; Best of the 2000s; Wellness. Taking on a song like this is risky.  Change it too much, and it changes the entire complexity of the original.  Stay true to the original, and face the daunting prospect of being compared to Bowie.  Perhaps it’s Depp’s theatricality that allowed this cover to stay true to the original and still not fall short of Bowie’s in any meaningful way.  While there are some slight differences, overall, this cover really hits the mark. Then, on Valentine’s Day, like the pinnacle moment of a John Hughes film, Coverdale hit us over the head with “Shut Up & Kiss Me.”  It’s a slice of nostalgia that will take you back to the ‘80s, a time when the world was far less serious and rock and roll was a lot more decadent and fun. Seeing new music pop up from Charm City Devils earlier this year was the equivalent of finding a $20 bill in the pocket of a jacket that you haven’t worn in years.  I had just assumed that the band, like so many other developing artists, had decided to call it a day.  Thankfully, it was just an extended hiatus.  Though there have been some lineup changes, and some new influences in their music, there are elements of “Skipping Stone” that remind you just what you’ve been missing during their break…big hooks and John Allen’s vocals. “Goodbye Divinity” is a virtuoso clinic melded with an infectious hook and soaring melody.  Thundering intensity seamlessly yields to beautiful vocal harmonies and the showcasing of each musician without ever feeling gratuitous.  It’s the kind of song that makes you yearn to see these musical geniuses in a live setting. The sweet, soulful presence of Led Zeppelin meets the sleazy, gritty, ’80s Sunset Strip sound of Guns N’ Roses and Motley Crue on Dirty Honey’s “When I’m Gone.”  Dirty Honey is not only the moniker of these L.A. rockers, it is also an accurate description of their sound.  It wasn’t that long ago when bands like this, talented though they may be, didn’t have a home on Active Rock radio.  There is undoubtedly a classic rock revival going on, due in no small part to the impact that has been made by Greta Van Fleet.  They have their fair share of critics, but they deserve credit for blazing a trail for bands like Dirty Honey to garner radio attention.   “When I’m Gone” has a distinct Zeppelin vibe, but because of the infusion of the Sunset Strip sound of yesteryear (from the band’s hometown), Dirty Honey is unlikely to feel the wrath of critics and fans for being too derivative.  Ironically, the evolution of Active Rock radio may very well be defined by going back in time and embracing timeless rock and roll from bands like Dirty Honey.
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