Modern Rock Radio re:Play 12.01.07: Issue #7
Posted by Ben Czajkowski on 12.01.2007
Back after a week of sickness, turkey, and sinning, Ben Czajkowski brings you the best-selling albums of Thanksgiving Week(end), all the singles scheduled for release for the next month, and the Billboard Top 10 Modern and Mainstream Rock Songs. While you’re here, why not check out reviews for Coheed and Cambira’s “Running Free” and Eddie Vedder’s “Hard Sun?” You know you want to.
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Hey, everyone! Welcome to another MRRR. I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving.
It's been a busy week for music, as singles are just ‘asploding everywhere these days. In what I feel to, generally, be dry-music months, we're seeing some good things on the radio. Here are the notable album sales for the week:
Notable Rock/Metal Album Sales This Week (Top 100)
No. 05 - The Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden
No. 28 - Led Zeppelin - Mothership - 74,000
No. 32 - Kid Rock - Rock N' Roll Jesus - 45,000
No. 38 - Daughtry - Daughtry – 43,000
No. 41 - Nickelback - All The Right Reasons – 37,000
No. 48 - The Killers - Sawdust – 28,000
No. 190 - Sebastian Bach - Angel Down – 6,400
(Modern) Rock Radio Available For Airplay
DISCLAIMER: Some of these tracks will be released to modern rock and rock radio at different times. I realize that seems redundant, and to me, it is. These dates can and will vary from station to station, state to state, etc.
December 3
Drowning Pool "Enemy"
Jimmy Eat World "Always Be"
Jack Johnson "If I Had Eyes"
The Mars Volta "Wax Simulacra"
Spoon "Don't You Evah"
December 10
Monster In The Machine "Under Your Shadow"
Hellyeah "Thank You"
December 17
Bullet For My Valentine "Scream Aim Fire"
Evans Blue "Shine You Cadillac"
Metro Station "Control"
Modern Rock Top 10
According to the Billboard top rock tracks, here's the top 10 of what you care most about, in terms of modern rock:
01. Foo Fighters – The Pretender
02. Seether – Fake It
03. Serj Tankian – Empty Walls
04. Jimmy Eat World – Big Casino
05. Linkin Park – Bleed It Out
06. Finger Eleven – Paralyzer
07. Three Days Grace – Never Too Late
08. Chevelle – I Get It
09. Linkin Park - Shadow of the Day
10. The White Stripes - You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)
Mainstream Rock Top 10
According to the Billboard top rock tracks, here's the top 10 of what you care most about, in terms of mainstream rock:
01. Seether – Fake It
02. Foo Fighters – The Pretender
03. Sixx:A.M. – Life Is Beautiful
04. Alter Bridge – Rise Today
05. Serj Tankian – Empty Walls
06. Atreyu – Becoming the Bull
07. Avenged Sevenfold – Almost Easy
08. Godsmack - Good Times, Bad Times
09. Puddle of Mudd - Psycho
10. Three Days Grace – Never Too Late
Something like sixteen long years ago, which is a lifetime for many of you who are going to read this, a band from Seattle, Washington, released an epic album by the name of Ten. Pearl Jam, since then, has tried to hang on to that fame that the grunge scene fueled for them. As you all know, or should know, flannel is dead, but Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder are not. They've proved time and time again that Vedder is a quality lyricist and vocalist, despite dwindling record sales over the years.
Vedder has also demonstrates that he can cover a song and add such vitality to it. Back in 1999, Pearl Jam covered "Last Kiss", originally of Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders. Earlier this year, Vedder sang "Love, Reign O'er Me," same as the movie that it was the single from. Now, Vedder did an entire album's worth of vocals for the movie Into the Wild, including this Indio track "Hard Sun."
I've heard it a bunch on the radio now, and it's steadily climbing the charts. However, is the song worth all the attention? Is Vedder washed up? I disagree with both of those questions with a resounding "Hell No." The first couple times I heard the song, I shrugged it off as just more rock junk on the radio. However, after thinking about it, Vedder is too much of an iconic figure in the music industry still. And with this track, he proves that he still has the vocal range that is necessary to work in this struggling market. In this very folky single, Vedder just smoothly croons,"There's a big/a big hard sun/beating on the big people/in the big hard world." I think the payoff, though, is with the there sheer magnitude of the expression of Vedder. You can tell his heart is in it, and it won me over. A fantastic track for a wondrous movie.
Coheed and Cambria is redefining big hair bands. Or they need to stop sticking paperclips into electrical sockets. Either way, this progressive rock band from Kingston, NY, is back again with a new album Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow. The second volume has been out for a couple months now, and this single "Running Free" is doing everything in its power to support the album. It peaked at a much deserved Number 6, back in October.
This week, "Running Free" breaks into the Top 20 on the Modern Rock charts. I find that the song is going to propel Cambria, hopefully, to their first top 10 Rock hit. This track deserves this for many reasons. First of all, it's fresher than most things out there right now. I am so tired of hearing Linkin Park and old Metallica, and I find myself looking for an up-tempo song that really moves through itself effortlessly. Claudio Sanchez and his larger-than-life hairdo do their best to shake that emo typecast they've endured since A Flavor House Atlantic, and I find that they're successful. The most memorable part of the song, aside from the chorus, is the first verse. Sanchez sings, "All non-believers stand aside and fear/A new day's marching through the door/How could you ever think you'd make it here?/Did it bleed? Was it sore?/through the struggles you've endured."
3.75/5: Turn It Up
Chart Toppers and Hoppers
Tracks to really look out for in the future, both here and on the radio:
1. Korn – "Hold On"
2. Atreyu – "Becoming the Bull"
3. Hurt – "Ten Ton Brick"
4. Jimmy Eat World "Always Be"
5. Foo Fighters – "Long Way To Ruin"
Top 5 MP3s of the Week
5. Mudvayne – "Not Falling" (Demo)
4. Nine Inch Nails – "Gunshots By Computer"
3. Apocalyptica – "I'm Not Jesus"
2. Foo Fighters – "The Pretender"
1. Seether – "Like Suicide"
