Without further adieu, I present to you the Top 75 songs from this year’s Countdown. Only a handful of my songs made the Countdown this year: Sound City Players‘ “Your Wife is Calling”, Black Sabbath‘s “Damaged Soul”, “Hush” by Deep Purple, Dio‘s “Rainbow in the Dark”, and “Stonehenge” by Spinal Tap.
| 1 | More Human Than Human | White Zombie |
| 2 | Red Tide Rising | Orange Goblin |
| 3 | Welcome to the Family | Avenged Sevenfold |
| 4 | Awake | Godsmack |
| 5 | Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap) | AC/DC |
| 6 | Detroit Rock City | KISS |
| 7 | Fuck Her Gently | Tenacious D |
| 8 | Give Up the Funk | Parliament |
| 9 | Subdivisions | Rush |
| 10 | A Warriors Call | Volbeat |
| 11 | A Lil Piece of Heaven | Avenged Sevenfold |
| 12 | Back in Black | AC/DC |
| 13 | Dying Earth | The Sword |
| 14 | I | Black Sabbath |
| 15 | Funk 49 | James Gang |
| 16 | War Pigs | Black Sabbath |
| 17 | Hawks and Serpents | The Sword |
| 18 | Red Hot Mama | Funkadelic |
| 19 | Man in the Box | Alice in Chains |
| 20 | Higher Ground | Stevie Wonder |
| 21 | Children of the Damned | Iron Maiden |
| 22 | Snowblind | Black Sabbath |
| 23 | Red Barchetta | Rush |
| 24 | Master of Puppets | Metallica |
| 25 | Seek and Destroy | Metallica |
| 26 | White Rabbit | Jefferson Airplane |
| 27 | TNT | AC/DC |
| 28 | Hooker with a Penis | Tool |
| 29 | Testify | Rage Against the Machine |
| 30 | Le Grange | ZZ Top |
| 31 | Chop Suey | System of a Down |
| 32 | Good Times Bad Times | Led Zeppelin |
| 33 | Seven Nation Army | White Stripes |
| 34 | The Wind Cries Mary | Jimi Hendrix |
| 35 | Aerials | System of a Down |
| 36 | Save Me | Avenged Sevenfold |
| 37 | The Veil of Isis | The Sword |
| 38 | Chapter 4 | Avenged Sevenfold |
| 39 | Wherever I May Roam | Metallica |
| 40 | Are You Mine? | The Arctic Monkeys |
| 41 | The Prisoner | Iron Maiden |
| 42 | Them Bones | Alice in Chains |
| 43 | Carry on my Wayward Son | Kansas |
| 44 | Squonk | Genesis |
| 45 | Losfer Words | Iron Maiden |
| 46 | Damaged Soul | Black Sabbath |
| 47 | Earth Rocker | Clutch |
| 48 | Stonehenge | Spinal Tap |
| 49 | Seasons in the Abyss | Slayer |
| 50 | Under the Sun | Black Sabbath |
| 51 | Tales of Brave Ulysses | Cream |
| 52 | Right Place Wrong Time | Doctor John |
| 53 | A Day in the Life | War |
| 54 | Hush | Deep Purple |
| 55 | Slow Ride | Foghat |
| 56 | Emotional Rescue | The Rolling Stones |
| 57 | Sign of the Gypsy Queen | April Wine |
| 58 | Rainbow in the Dark | Dio |
| 59 | Mongoose | Fu Manchu |
| 60 | Lies | Down |
| 61 | Dogs of War | Motorhead |
| 62 | Money | Pink Floyd |
| 63 | Wife is Calling | Sound City Players |
| 64 | Awaken | Yes |
| 65 | Give it to Me Baby | Rick James |
| 66 | Frankenstein | Edgar Winter Group |
| 67 | Where the Devil Don’t Stay | Drive By Truckers |
| 68 | Machine Gun | The Commodores |
| 69 | Millionaire | Dr Hook |
| 70 | Warriors | Thin Lizzy |
| 71 | Jukebox Hero | Foreigner |
| 72 | Heart of Gold | Neil Young |
| 73 | Intro to Reality/Belly of the Beast | Anthrax |
| 74 | Roller | Sasquatch |
| 75 | Long Way to the Top | AC/DC |
Not bad! Some great songs on there!
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Not too shabby eh? Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic, all good!
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On the DVD for “Brave” there is a preview for “Planes” – the soundtrack for the Planes Preview? The Sausagefest #1.
In the mid-90s, if you’d told me Rob Zombie would one day be providing music for Disney ads, I think only Marilyn Manson would have been a more unlikely pairing!
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That’s how I felt hearing Iggy Pop pimping for Mitsubishi. “Lust For Loot” Mr Osterberg?
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I guess everyone has a price. But honestly, at this point, Iggy probably couldn’t give a fuck anymore about selling out. Just a guess, I don’t know the man.
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I certainly don’t begrudge him some well-earned money. But it seemed he was ALL over the dial last year. “The Passenger” in a couple campaigns, cool. “Lust for Life” in a couple, with one re-recorded with a female choir instead of him…. erm Iggy? what’s going on? Then I heard an AM-friendly version of The Stooges’ “Loose” for some Travel Co. and that’s when I snapped !
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I remember hearing Crazy Crazy Nights by Kiss in a TV ad. I couldn’t believe it! THAT song, of all their songs? I was just glad to see it get some exposure.
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Stuff like this used to bother me. It doesn’t really anymore. I kind of crumpled after Van Halen did the Crystal Pepsi thing.
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It’s a good pooint. They’re a long way from the Bare Necessities (koffkoff). Anyway, I hope this discussion can expand, it’s a post all on its own. Oh, wait! I just did that on the KMA!
http://keepsmealive.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/cartoon-metal/
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NO. WAY. And that title is a reference to Blade Runner, a movie no child should see until they’re old enough!
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Red Hot Mama Squonking the Man In The Box in the RIGHT place, but the WRONG time- giving up the Funk 49 in Detroit Rock City.
Yes yes yes I kin get down with this.
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This list definitely gives you an idea of the groove we’re in.
Although as I mentioned, in past years there was more country, jazz, folk stuff like Lightfoot…this year it was more geared to rock. It all depends on those votes.
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I love Hooker With A Penis!
Er… wait…
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Oh, my future hits…
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This is a pretty damn good list of songs, by and large.
Does somebody, somewhere (no, not you, Platinum Blonde) have a spreadsheet to keep track of every song played so that there’s no duplication, year after year?
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Yes…I don’t know how far back the records go but at least 5 years. Every 5 years or so they might do a “reset” and put songs back on the table. The “exclusions” list gets emailed out every year. Returning it is referred to as “paying your rock and roll taxes”. So when Tom sends an email saying, “GET YER FUCKIN’ TAXES IN!” it means they need to compile songs because it’s time to start recording!
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