Chevelle's "Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)" is Best Song of the Decade

*Originally posted to Fast Food Yummy blog on Friday, January 01, 2010

My List of 25 Best Rock Songs of the '00s

(Song(first),Recording Artist)
1. Vitamin R (Leading Us Along), Chevelle
2. Best of You, Foo Fighters
3. Sooner or Later, Breaking Benjamin
4. Scream, Billy Idol
5. The Day That Never Comes, Metallica
6. A Looking in View, Alice In Chains
7. So Far Away, Crossfade
8. Chop Suey!, System of a Down
9. Ugly, The Exies
10. East Jesus Nowhere, Green Day
11. Not Enough, Lacuna Coil
12. Break, Three Days Grace
13. All My Life, Foo Fighters
14. Stockholm Syndrome, Blink-182
15. Makototen, Gong
16. Fly From the Inside, Shinedown
17. Kolomiyka, Ruslana
18. Monsoon, Tokio Hotel
19. Modern Day Delilah, KISS
20. Anchor, Crossfade
21. Fire On The Inside, Pillar
22. L’Via L’Viaquez, The Mars Volta
23. Drowning (Face Down), Saving Abel
24. American Idiot, Green Day
25. Wheels, Foo Fighters


Note: Some of these songs are hard rock or metal, while others are soft rock or pop/rock. There are also songs somewhere in between hard rock and soft rock.

Posted by Scott McLean at 1/01/2010

Featured radio on the web

ZanZanA WebradiO of Tunisia is great rock and metal radio, playing a wide variety of rock and metal songs. Some people may find this many kinds of music in one place on the web quite unbelievable. It's one example of freedom in music, and such great variety of songs isn't played on local radio stations. I have no connection to this station, although I do care about Tunisia and my friends there. My hope is there will be more freedom everywhere including freedom of music throughout the world.

Bodyslam - คิดฮอด feat.ศิริพร อำไพพงษ์

The song คิดฮอด by Bodyslam is Number 1 on my list of 2010’s best rock songs. This is a beautiful song and it rocks. It’s listed in English letters as Kid Haud.

Bodyslam and Cherri Bomb

Bodyslam is Number 1 with the help of famous Thai singer Siriporn, as their song คิดฮอด is at the top of my list of 2010's best rock songs. Cherri Bomb is a very close second on the list with their song "Spin".

25 Best Songs of 2010

Band/Artist, Song

1. Bodyslam featuring Siriporn, คิดฮอด (Kid Haud)
2. Cherri Bomb, Spin
3. Black Country Communion, Medusa
4. UnSun, Why
5. Jacob Craner, Dimensionality
6. Cherri Bomb, Here To Rock
7. Gacharic Spin, Lock On!!
8. Океан Ельзи (Okean Elzy), Небо над Дніпром (Sky over the Dnieper)
9. The Indecent, Soybean (I Know)
10. Luminous Orange, Untold
11. Univers Zero, Soubresauts
12. UnSun, Mockers
13. Crossfade, Make Me A Believer
14. My Chemical Romance, Sing
15. Godsmack, Shadow of a Soul
16. Warpaint, Warpaint
17. Stone Temple Pilots, Take A Load Off
18. Luminous Orange, Sea of Lights
19. DEPRESI DEMON, Valium
20. Stray, Dirt Finger
21. Faust, Karneval
22. Tokyo Jihen, FAIR
23. Cold War Kids, Louder Than Ever
24. Apocalyptica feat. Lacey, Broken Pieces
25. Hole, Letter To God

Godsmack - Shadow of a Soul

Godsmack was back in 2010 with more powerful heavy-metal rock. Their song "Shadow of a Soul" is musically tight, has superb drumming, and I really like the guitar solo in the instrumental part of the song. Most of all, Sully Erna is fantastic and there's a lot of feeling in his singing of this song which will be in my list of 2010's best songs.

Sing - My Chemical Romance (***LYRICS***)

I think everyone knew the song "Sing" by My Chemical Romance was going to be in my list of 25 Best Rock Songs of 2010. Well, it's just a way of telling you that it seems so obvious.

So I guess they're saying to do a lot of singing for good reasons and those are some very nice thoughts and lyrics. It seems the first time I heard this song was on a local alternative radio station, so some radio stations know what they're doing. But still, this is one of the best songs I've heard on the radio, from 2010. Maybe I heard it in 2011 the first time, but I can't recall, and it could have been a dream that I heard it on the radio. This song is fabulous, including the music, lyrics, and of course the singing. That pretty much sums it up and probably why it's been such a popular song.

cherri bomb -here to rock

Cherri Bomb makes the 25 Best Rock Songs of 2010 with the song "Here To Rock" on the power of a great guitar solo. Also, the singing is very nice sounding. I liked their official video with this song.

Unfortunately, that video -- which showed a bunch of young teens in a school walking around a school, confronting the boys in a rather humorous way, and the girls of Cherri Bomb singing and rocking out -- is not there on YouTube anymore. At least I couldn't find it when I searched.

I notice some bands are doing new versions of their songs or videos and they have the right to do whatever they want with their songs and videos. But they don't need to remake their songs to impress me or anyone else.

Bands shouldn't listen to critics -- either the critical comment writers on YouTube and elsewhere, or music critics/reviewers who try to play god, ruin music careers, etc. -- because I've never thought much of music critics.

Songs don't get in the 25 best rock songs unless they are very good, and most are great songs. This, of course, is my opinion. With the song "Here To Rock", Cherri Bomb gets in again, but the before (song) hasn't been announced yet! Alright, that last sentence didn't make much sense, unless you were inside my head and then you would know that there is a top 5 and Cherri Bomb, with another one of their songs, and four other artists (bands and possibly a solo artist) have songs that made it to that top 5.

Note: I did not write the Title of this post and this is the way it appears on YouTube. The reviews, writing, and lists in this blog are my opinion.

Soybean (I Know) by The Indecent

It's a good thing that I extended my time limit in searching for songs that will make my list. I've only known about the band The Indecent and their song, and "Soybean (I Know)" for a few weeks or something like that. I'm can't recall how I found this video on YouTube, but maybe I was looking for grunge in 2010. It's very interesting and enjoyable video to watch, and under the video it tells viewers that Noah Hutton directed the video, so I look forward to seeing more of his videos. This was a very nice way to introduce the band to first-time listeners and to get new fans.

I know it's too early to start comparing The Indecent to legendary grunge band Nirvana, but I was listening to the Nirvana song "About a Girl" and Soybean, going back and forth listening to both and thinking, hey The Indecent are going places. I like their song a lot.

These two songs don't sound much alike but have some similarities. Both songs are from early in these bands' careers (only that Nirvana was starting out more than 20 years ago, in the '80s), also both songs have a slightly raw sound, not overproduced yet easy to listen to and enjoy often, and the songs appear to be influenced by rock bands and songs of the past, yet have their own unique sound and make me feel that rock music is still on the rise and at times getting better.

I do see some criticisms in the comments below the video in YouTube, and I'm only pointing this out because I wanted to write that those comments are wrong, so don't listen to them. I'm right about this song, it's a great song! "Soybean (I Know)" by The Indecent will be on my list of 25 Best Rock Songs of 2010.

CDinosaur?

Where are the CDs? I don't know. It's so much effort to figure out which stores stock the music I'm interested in buying, and maybe other people are having the same problem. Also, it's hard to know when a CD will be released to stores.

Tonight before 11 pm I called a Fred Meyer store, actually twice because I didn't ask enough questions the first time.

According to what I've seen on the internet, it looked like "We All Bleed" by Crossfade is scheduled to be in stores on June 21. A worker at Fred Meyer told me that it was going to be available on that day. I pointed out that the release date had been delayed before and that person indicated that does happen sometimes with CD releases.

I also asked if Cherri Bomb had a CD and was told by that worker that the store computer only recognized the name with a 'y'. I called back and spoke with another worker, just because that's who answered my call, and I asked about two other bands and they didn't have either CD but was nice to recommend other stores which might have those CDs. One of the bands is Seether and the other is a new band that has a downloadable album available for purchase, but I want to buy a CD if possible. Please see the next post (above) for the name of that band.

Note: I posted this to Monday because I called late Monday night, and now it's after midnight. This post isn't about me or my wants, it's intended to bring up an interesting topic.

Seether - Country Song (Lyrics)

One of my favorite songs of 2011, which is a big rock-radio hit, is "Country Song" by Seether. It has all tension and toughness in the lyrics we might expect if we were singing on the way to a relationship break-up, only much better words than I could come up with at at such a moment of feeling awful inside. So the lyrics compare very nicely to those of some of the best hard-rock/heavy-rock songs of the '00s decade.

This is great hard rock in the modern style which is alternative plus heavy-rock power. The country style is mixed in and starts the song off in such a nice way and then gets right to rocking hard, and I love it. This song does remind me of Nickelback.

The new Seether album "Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray" will be in stores on May 17, according to the Seether official site. You can hear some of their songs which they are playing on their site, so let's all get psyched up about the new album.

Note: I have no connection to the upload and post on YouTube and do not know if the lyrics or other information is all correct. The title is the way it appears on YouTube and I don't upload music videos on YouTube and don't write the titles.

What I do here is express my opinion and back it up, also hoping music fans will support the bands I write about, as well as many other bands, by buying their albums, as CDs, album downloads, etc.

Warpaint - Warpaint.

The song "Warpaint" is wonderful experimental art-rock and everything about this song is gorgeous and nice sounding. The lyrics are interesting though seem open to interpretation. This song by the band Warpaint will be on my list of 25 best rock songs of 2010.

Foo Fighters - Rope (Audio)

"Rope" is a great rock song by Foo Fighters and the album "Wasting Light" is outstanding hard-rock/heavy metal that is both alternative hard-rock and similar to the great hard-rock of the '70s, including some '70s rock groups which unfortunately don't get played on many radio stations these days. Don't worry, some of those groups and their songs will be on my list of 100 Best Songs(1970 to 2010).

This is a 2011 release, so it will be eligible if I do a best songs list for this year, which wouldn't appear until next year. But, there's no question about it, "Rope" is going to be on that list.

Please buy the CD "Wasting Light" because I already bought it twice and maybe I'll buy it again for a gift.