HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 6/20/20

  HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 6/20/20

Each week on HardRockDaddy.com.  The HRD Radio Report digs deeper into the weekly Active Rock charts, providing commentary, reviews, recommendations and predictions.  It also features opinion pieces on chart action and the music business in general. The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 6/20/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART	CHART	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	RADIO
POSITION	POSITION			SPINS
THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
1	1	BAD WOLVES	Sober	1873
2	3	FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH	A Little Bit Off	1781
3	2	GODSMACK	Unforgettable	1561
4	5	KORN	Can You Hear Me	1442
5	6	ASKING ALEXANDRIA	Antisocialist	1396
6	7	PRETTY RECKLESS	Death By Rock And Roll	1321
7	9	VOLBEAT	Leviathan	1148
8	12	SHINEDOWN	Atlas Falls	1066
9	4	GREY DAZE	Sickness	1034
10	13	THE HU (f. JACOBY SHADDIX)	Wolf Totem	989
11	11	HIGHLY SUSPECT	These Days	920
12	8	OZZY OSBOURNE (f. ELTON JOHN)	Ordinary Man	853
13	16	POP EVIL	Work	792
14	15	MOTIONLESS IN WHITE	Another Life	720
15	14	A DAY TO REMEMBER	Resentment	699
16	17	BUSH	Flowers On A Grave	658
17	19	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE	I Can’t Be The Only One	600
18	18	THEORY OF A DEADMAN	World Keeps Spinning	596
19	20	STARSET	Trails	571
20	21	IN THIS MOMENT	The In-Between	500
21	22	SAINT ASONIA	Blind	464
22	24	THE BLACK MOODS	Sunshine	455
23	23	SKILLET	Save Me	449
24	26	WEEZER	Hero	411
25	25	DED	A Mannequin Idol (Lullaby)	373
26	27	BIFFY CLYRO	Instant History	365
27	28	SCOTT STAPP	Survivor	344
28	31	TRIVIUM	Bleed Into Me	283
29	34	BREAKING BENJAMIN (f. LACEY STURM)	Dear Agony	276
30	32	CROBOT	Gasoline	262
31	29	CORY MARKS	Outlaws & Outsiders	209
32	38	FROM ASHES TO NEW	Panic	201
33	33	THROUGH FIRE	Listen To Your Heart	192
34	37	10 YEARS	The Shift	157
35	30	PEARL JAM	Superblood Wolfmoon	155
36	35	RED	The War We Made	142
37	36	KILLERS	Caution	137
38	40	FAME ON FIRE	Headspace	113
39	39	AMITY AFFLICTION	Soak Me In Bleach	109
40	41	STITCHED UP HEART	Warrior	82
41	46	KINGDOM COLLAPSE	Uprise	77
42	47	DREAMERS (f. GRANDSON)	Heat Seeker	74
43	42	FIT FOR A KING	Breaking The Mirror	72
44	52	THE VIOLENT	Fly On The Wall	66
45	43	SLEEP SIGNALS	Fireproof	66
46	45	OTHERWISE	Crossfire	61
47	49	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Level Of Concern	53
48	57	SONS OF SILVER	Read ’em Their Rights	50
49	48	POP EVIL	Let The Chaos Reign	50
50	88	ADELITAS WAY	Shine On	49

 

 

PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)

THE PRETTY RECKLESS – “Death by Rock and Roll”

Death is something that most people fear and dread thinking about because of the finality of it all.  It certainly isn’t something that people think of as sexy, but Taylor Momsen manages to make it so with her sultry delivery of some pretty grim lyrics.  In what can best be described as the lovechild conceived during an orgy between Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin, “Death by Rock and Roll” is a modern song that takes you back to a time when rock and roll was more dangerous and unpredictable.  In the song, Momsen describes a number of different tragic ways to die, but cleverly puts each one under the larger subheading of “Death by Rock and Roll.”  The lyrics conjure up memories of the famous Hunter S. Thompson quote…

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!'”

This is not to say that Momsen is cavalier about death or tragedies, because she’s not.  “Death by Rock and Roll” was inspired by two painful losses in her life…Chris Cornell (her musical hero), and Kato Khandwala (producer of The Pretty Reckless’ first three albums).  Both men died within a year of each other.  Cornell by suicide, and Khandwala in a motorcycle crash.  Both causes of death are mentioned in the song.

In an interview with Kerrang!, Momsen shared…

“It took me into what I can only describe as an extraordinarily dark downward spiral.  I was in a hole that I didn’t know how to get out of, or if I was going to get out of it.  It sounds cliched, but it was the music that was the thing that brought me back to life.  The only thing that I could turn to was music and that eventually led me to just writing how I was feeling.  ‘Death by Rock and Roll’ represents that salvation that my favorite music brings me.  Rock is freedom, and this song is about living life the way that you want.”

“Death by Rock and Roll” may very well be The Pretty Reckless’ best single yet.

 

 

HRD SPIN CONTROL (by Adam Waldman and Jon Loveless)

The following is a list of songs that we feel deserve to be added to Active Rock playlists…

KINGDOM COLLAPSE – “Uprise”

ANY GIVEN SIN – “Insidious”

VIOLENT IDOLS (f. AARON NORDSTROM) – “Fuck You”

THE WILD! – “King Of This Town”

DEAD DAISIES – “Unspoken”

KIRRA – “Caving In”

RIDING WITH KILLERS – “Self Destruct”

BLACK HEART SAINTS – “Misery”

COLD KINGDOM – “Devil In Me”

THE OUTFIT – “Come Alive”

ARMORED DAWN – “Zombie Viking”

ALL TIME LOW – “Monsters”

TENSE MACHINE – “Best Mistake”

THIRTEEN STARS – “Mint Jelly”

DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY – “This Is War”

SLAVES – “Talk To A Friend”

DISCREPANCIES – “Undertow”

SHVPES – “Lion’s Den”

WITHIN TEMPTATION – “Entertain You”

LOYAL ORDER – “Ready For Dead”

STATIC CYCLE – “Wolf”

 

 

GREATEST GAINERS…

SHINEDOWN – “Atlas Falls” (+174 spins)

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – “A Little Bit Off” (+142 spins)

PRETTY RECKLESS – “Death By Rock And Roll” (+129 spins)

ASKING ALEXANDRIA – “Antisocialist” (+113 spins)

THE HU (f. JACOBY SHADDIX) – “Wolf Totem” (+103 spins)

BREAKING BENJAMIN (f. LACEY STURM) – “Dear Agony” (+102 spins)

 

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