HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 8/29/20
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 8/29/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
| CHART | CHART | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | RADIO |
| POSITION | POSITION | SPINS | ||
| THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK | |||
| 1 | 2 | METALLICA & THE S.F. SYMPHONY | All Within My Hands (S&M2) | 1855 |
| 2 | 1 | SHINEDOWN | Atlas Falls | 1636 |
| 3 | 4 | SEETHER | Dangerous | 1585 |
| 4 | 3 | PRETTY RECKLESS | Death By Rock And Roll | 1535 |
| 5 | 7 | CHRIS CORNELL | Patience | 1493 |
| 6 | 6 | THE HU (f. JACOBY SHADDIX) | Wolf Totem | 1463 |
| 7 | 9 | COREY TAYLOR | Black Eyes Blue | 1297 |
| 8 | 8 | POP EVIL | Work | 1224 |
| 9 | 5 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | A Little Bit Off | 1216 |
| 10 | 10 | STARSET | Trials | 1056 |
| 11 | 12 | FROM ASHES TO NEW | Panic | 847 |
| 12 | 13 | BADFLOWER | 30 | 839 |
| 13 | 15 | BREAKING BENJAMIN (f. LACEY STURM) | Dear Agony | 704 |
| 14 | 17 | I PREVAIL (f. DELANEY JANE) | Every Time You Leave | 638 |
| 15 | 16 | SEVENDUST | The Day I Tried To Live | 599 |
| 16 | 21 | MARILYN MANSON | We Are Chaos | 579 |
| 17 | 14 | THEORY OF A DEADMAN | World Keeps Spinning | 572 |
| 18 | 18 | WEEZER | Hero | 564 |
| 19 | 19 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | Parasite Eve | 548 |
| 20 | 22 | THREE DAYS GRACE | Somebody That I Used To Know | 480 |
| 21 | 24 | AYRON JONES | Take Me Away | 423 |
| 22 | 36 | DEFTONES | Ohms | 412 |
| 23 | 25 | 10 YEARS | The Shift | 360 |
| 24 | 27 | BAD WOLVES | Learn To Walk Again | 359 |
| 25 | 23 | CROBOT | Gasoline | 348 |
| 26 | 20 | THE BLACK MOODS | Sunshine | 316 |
| 27 | 28 | CLEOPATRICK | Hometown | 297 |
| 28 | 26 | TRIVIUM | Bleed Into Me | 261 |
| 29 | 29 | AVATAR | Colossus | 259 |
| 30 | 30 | THE VIOLENT | Fly On The Wall | 255 |
| 31 | 31 | GREY DAZE | B12 | 242 |
| 32 | 32 | BAD OMENS | Limits | 228 |
| 33 | 35 | EVANESCENCE | Use My Voice | 201 |
| 34 | 57 | SIXX:A.M. / ARTISTS FOR RECOVERY | Maybe It’s Time | 190 |
| 35 | 33 | FAME ON FIRE | Headspace | 190 |
| 36 | 34 | IN THIS MOMENT | As Above, So Below | 164 |
| 37 | 37 | ANOTHER DAY DAWNS | Forget Me Not | 110 |
| 38 | 38 | STONE HORSES | The Day I Tried To Live | 99 |
| 39 | 43 | DAUGHTRY | World On Fire | 96 |
| 40 | 39 | SONS OF SILVER | Read ’em Their Rights | 80 |
| 41 | 41 | TETRARCH | I’m Not Right | 76 |
| 42 | 49 | ROYAL BLISS (f. SHIM) | Medication | 61 |
| 43 | 44 | ANY GIVEN SIN | Insidious | 56 |
| 44 | 71 | FIT FOR A KING | Locked (In My Head) | 53 |
| 45 | 46 | A KILLER’S CONFESSION | Last Chance | 53 |
| 46 | 54 | SOLENCE | Direction | 52 |
| 47 | 48 | AVOID | Song About James | 48 |
| 48 | 70 | EGO KILL TALENT | The Call | 46 |
| 49 | 52 | ROLLING STONES (f. JIMMY PAGE) | Scarlet | 44 |
| 50 | 47 | WHISKEY MYERS | Die Rockin | 44 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
NICKELBACK – “The Devil Went Down To Georgia”
It’s not uncommon for artists to take well known songs and cover them in such a way that they are familiar, but take on a life of their own. Sometimes is done purely with tempo and intensity, while other times it’s done by making subtle changes to the lyrics. Five Finger Death Punch did this around a decade ago with their cover of “Bad Company.” More recently, Bad Wolves did this with their cover of “Zombie.” Nickelback has now done it with their surprisingly intense cover of “The Devil Went Down To Georgia.” But this change is not purely about some subtle lyric alterations.
Because “The Devil Went Down To The Georgia” tells the tale of the devil having a fiddle battle with a hotshot fiddler, the original features (arguably) the most memorable violin playing in a popular song. In the Nickelback version, they offer a modern twist by turning the fiddle battle into a guitar showdown. I have to admit that the theatrical, power metal guitar part threw me for a loop at first. Not that Nickelback doesn’t have songs that are much edgier than they get credit for, but this is an entirely different level than their customary sound. For this contest with the devil, the band brought in a ringer, fellow Canadian guitarist/producer, Dave Martone. Just like the original, the satanic challenger leaves defeated.
This is as heavy as Nickelback has ever been. But it’s not just the in-your-face intensity that makes you stand up and take notice. Chad Kroeger is known for his catchy melodies, but not usually for oozing charisma. This feels like the alter ego of Kroeger singing (a man possessed if you will). Overall, the song just works on every level. It’s fun, nostalgic, fresh, and a little bit dangerous.
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…
NICKELBACK – “The Devil Went Down To Georgia”
KIRRA – “Free”
VEIO – “Crux”
JOYOUS WOLF – “Odyssey”
ASHES OF SOMA – “Relevant”
THEM EVILS – “Where Ya Gonna Crash Tonight?”
THE AMITY AFFLICTION – “Forever”
ZERO THEOREM – “Swarm”
FAREWELL TO FEAR – “I Won’t Be Your Tragedy”
JAMIE FONTAINE & THE LEVEL – “Save Your Life”
W3APONS – “Bye Baby Gone”
ALL TIME LOW – “Monsters”
AS STRANGE AS ANGELS – “Never Broken”
HONEYMOON SUITE – “Find What You’re Looking For”
EGO KILL TALENT – “The Call”
BLACK HEART SAINTS – “Misery”
STATIC CYCLE – “Wolf”
THE MANY COLORED DEATH – “Drown”
THE LOYAL ORDER – “Hellfire”
GREATEST GAINERS…
DEFTONES – “Ohms” (+309 spins)
CHRIS CORNELL – “Patience” (+190 spins)
COREY TAYLOR – “Black Eyes Blue” (+168 spins)
MARILYN MANSON – “We Are Chaos” (+158 spins)
SIXX:A.M./ARTISTS FOR RECOVERY – “Maybe It’s Time” (+157 spins)
METALLICA/THE S.F. SYMPHONY – “All Within My Hands” (+122 spins)
BADFLOWER – “30” (+112 spins)
I PREVAIL / DELANEY JANE – “Every Time You Leave” (+107 spins)
SEETHER – “Dangerous” (+105 spins)
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