HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 8/8/20
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 8/8/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
| CHART | CHART | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | RADIO |
| POSITION | POSITION | SPINS | ||
| THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK | |||
| 1 | 1 | PRETTY RECKLESS | Death By Rock And Roll | 1859 |
| 2 | 3 | SHINEDOWN | Atlas Falls | 1733 |
| 3 | 2 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | A Little Bit Off | 1708 |
| 4 | 4 | METALLICA & THE S.F. SYMPHONY | All Within My Hands (S&M2) | 1615 |
| 5 | 5 | VOLBEAT | Leviathan | 1398 |
| 6 | 6 | THE HU (f. JACOBY SHADDIX) | Wolf Totem | 1342 |
| 7 | 8 | SEETHER | Dangerous | 1268 |
| 8 | 12 | CHRIS CORNELL | Patience | 1136 |
| 9 | 9 | POP EVIL | Work | 1093 |
| 10 | 10 | STARSET | Trials | 966 |
| 11 | 11 | BUSH | Flowers On A Grave | 959 |
| 12 | 13 | THEORY OF A DEADMAN | World Keeps Spinning | 733 |
| 13 | 26 | COREY TAYLOR | Black Eyes Blue | 707 |
| 14 | 14 | FROM ASHES TO NEW | Panic | 688 |
| 15 | 16 | SKILLET | Save Me | 634 |
| 16 | 17 | THE BLACK MOODS | Sunshine | 587 |
| 17 | 19 | BREAKING BENJAMIN (f. LACEY STURM) | Dear Agony | 537 |
| 18 | 21 | SEVENDUST | The Day I Tried To Live | 490 |
| 19 | 20 | WEEZER | Hero | 486 |
| 20 | 24 | BADFLOWER | 30 | 461 |
| 21 | 18 | BIFFY CLYRO | Instant History | 419 |
| 22 | 23 | I PREVAIL (f. DELANEY JANE) | Every Time You Leave | 408 |
| 23 | 22 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | Parasite Eve | 393 |
| 24 | 25 | CROBOT | Gasoline | 368 |
| 25 | 28 | TRIVIUM | Bleed Into Me | 317 |
| 26 | 27 | 10 YEARS | The Shift | 310 |
| 27 | 30 | THREE DAYS GRACE | Somebody That I Used To Know | 297 |
| 28 | 29 | AYRON JONES | Take Me Away | 265 |
| 29 | 33 | AVATAR | Colossus | 226 |
| 30 | 41 | MARILYN MANSON | We Are Chaos | 221 |
| 31 | 31 | THE VIOLENT | Fly On The Wall | 221 |
| 32 | 32 | FAME ON FIRE | Headspace | 189 |
| 33 | 44 | BAD WOLVES | Learn To Walk Again | 178 |
| 34 | 35 | CLEOPATRICK | Hometown | 177 |
| 35 | 38 | GREY DAZE | B12 | 176 |
| 36 | 34 | BAD OMENS | Limits | 172 |
| 37 | 36 | SONS OF SILVER | Read ’em Their Rights | 119 |
| 38 | 40 | KINGDOM COLLAPSE | Uprise | 105 |
| 39 | 42 | STONE HORSES | The Day I Tried To Live | 103 |
| 40 | 39 | HIGHLY SUSPECT | Canals | 98 |
| 41 | 48 | IN THIS MOMENT | As Above, So Below | 94 |
| 42 | 46 | ANOTHER DAY DAWNS | Forget Me Not | 82 |
| 43 | 45 | ANY GIVEN SIN | Insidious | 76 |
| 44 | 43 | DREAMERS (f. GRANDSON) | Heat Seeker | 67 |
| 45 | 50 | TETRARCH | I’m Not Right | 45 |
| 46 | 49 | THE DIRTY NIL | Done With Drugs | 45 |
| 47 | 58 | A KILLER’S CONFESSION | Last Chance | 42 |
| 48 | 51 | ADELITAS WAY | Shine On | 41 |
| 49 | 56 | ROLLING STONES (f. JIMMY PAGE) | Scarlet | 39 |
| 50 | 74 | VEIO | Crux | 38 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
MARILYN MANSON – “We Are Chaos”
The timing of the release of Marilyn Manson’s “We Are Chaos” gives the impression that the song was written about the human condition in a post-pandemic world, but it was actually written in the pre-pandemic world. Still, it is about the human condition, but not the outward facing chaos of a society that seems to deteriorate by the day, but rather the chaos of self, where the mirror is often times your worst enemy. If you didn’t pay attention to the lyrics, you may feel a bit uplifted by a melody that brings an odd sense of comfort. But if you delve deeper into the lyrics, you’ll find that “We Are Chaos” is as dark as any other Manson tune. The pessimistic message somehow doesn’t feel as dark as it could if the song was written in the same style as some of Manson’s more outwardly aggressive and angry music. There is a cinematic quality to the chorus that is repeated like a mantra throughout…
“We are sick, fucked up and complicated…we are chaos, we can’t be cured.”
Had this been released earlier in the year, it may have just felt like Manson being Manson. But in the current state of society, “We Are Chaos” hits home in a much more visceral way. In a strange way, listening to this song is cathartic more than depressing. It feels like it gives the listener permission to just embrace the chaos of society and of self that will always exist in one way or another.
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…
JOYOUS WOLF – “Odyssey”
KIRRA – “Free”
FAREWELL TO FEAR – “I Won’t Be Your Tragedy”
THEM EVILS – “Where Ya Gonna Crash Tonight?”
ZERO THEOREM – “Swarm”
14 NORTH – “Break”
LAKESHORE – “Mountain View”
THE LOYAL ORDER – “Hellfire”
AS STRANGE AS ANGELS – “Never Broken”
JAMIE FONTAINE & THE LEVEL – “Save Your Life”
ARMORED DAWN – “Zombie Viking”
RELENT – “Low”
OXYMORRONS – “Justice”
A KILLER’S CONFESSION – “Last Chance”
W3APONS – “Bye Baby Gone”
THE OUTFIT – “Come Alive”
ALL TIME LOW – “Monsters”
GREATEST GAINERS…
COREY TAYLOR – “Black Eyes Blue” (+362 spins)
CHRIS CORNELL – “Patience” (+252 spins)
METALLICA – “All Within My Hands (S&M 2)” (+146 spins)
MARILYN MANSON – “We Are Chaos” (+131 spins)
SHINEDOWN – “Atlas Falls” (+126 spins)
BADFLOWER – “30” (+113 spins)
SEETHER – “Dangerous” (+107 spins)
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