HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 2/27/21
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 2/27/21. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
TOP 100 HARD ROCK SONGS OF 2020
| THIS | LAST | |||
| WEEK | WEEK | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | SPINS |
| 1 | 2 | MAMMOTH WVH | Distance | 1762 |
| 2 | 3 | PAPA ROACH | The Ending | 1642 |
| 3 | 1 | ROYAL BLOOD | Trouble’s Coming | 1578 |
| 4 | 6 | CHEVELLE | Self Destructor | 1572 |
| 5 | 5 | CLEOPATRICK | Hometown | 1459 |
| 6 | 4 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | Living The Dream | 1424 |
| 7 | 8 | PRETTY RECKLESS | And So It Went | 1352 |
| 8 | 10 | FOO FIGHTERS | Waiting On A War | 1195 |
| 9 | 7 | ASKING ALEXANDRIA | They Don’t Want What We Want… | 1181 |
| 10 | 9 | POP EVIL | Breathe Again | 1167 |
| 11 | 11 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | Teardrops | 1003 |
| 12 | 13 | AC/DC | Realize | 967 |
| 13 | 14 | ARCHITECTS | Animals | 897 |
| 14 | 16 | COREY TAYLOR | Samantha’s Gone | 833 |
| 15 | 15 | FROM ASHES TO NEW | Scars That I’m Hiding | 814 |
| 16 | 19 | SEETHER | Bruised And Bloodied | 797 |
| 17 | 18 | FOO FIGHTERS | Shame Shame | 669 |
| 18 | 20 | ROB ZOMBIE | The Triumph Of King Freak… | 597 |
| 19 | 24 | AYRON JONES | Mercy | 561 |
| 20 | 21 | BLACK STONE CHERRY | Again | 524 |
| 21 | 22 | THEORY OF A DEADMAN | Strangers | 477 |
| 22 | 25 | BLACK VEIL BRIDES | Scarlet Cross | 422 |
| 23 | 26 | DEFTONES | Ceremony | 421 |
| 24 | 27 | ZERO 9:36 | Adrenaline | 413 |
| 25 | 29 | ESCAPE THE FATE (f. LINDSEY STIRLING) | Invincible | 403 |
| 26 | 23 | SEVENDUST | Dying To Live | 402 |
| 27 | 31 | A DAY TO REMEMBER | Everything We Need | 350 |
| 28 | 30 | RA | Intercorrupted | 326 |
| 29 | 32 | DES ROCS | This Is Our Life | 314 |
| 30 | 28 | THROUGH FIRE | Doubt | 303 |
| 31 | 33 | LOVE AND DEATH | Down | 298 |
| 32 | 38 | GRETA VAN FLEET | Heat Above | 262 |
| 33 | 34 | BLACK CROWES | Charming Mess | 207 |
| 34 | 35 | TWIZTID | Rose Petal | 172 |
| 35 | 36 | ALL TIME LOW (f. BLACKBEAR) | Monsters | 151 |
| 36 | 37 | MACHINE GUN KELLY | Bloody Valentine | 139 |
| 37 | 0 | THE OFFSPRING | Let The Bad Times Roll | 136 |
| 38 | 40 | KEITH WALLEN | Dream Away | 130 |
| 39 | 42 | SERJ TANKIAN | Elasticity | 115 |
| 40 | 44 | 10 YEARS | The Unknown | 112 |
| 41 | 41 | TETRARCH | You Never Listen | 109 |
| 42 | 51 | 3 DOORS DOWN | The Better Life (2021) | 106 |
| 43 | 70 | MYLES KENNEDY | In Stride | 91 |
| 44 | 46 | A KILLER’S CONFESSION | Remember | 77 |
| 45 | 49 | FOO FIGHTERS | No Son Of Mine | 68 |
| 46 | 48 | WEEZER | All My Favorite Things | 63 |
| 47 | 47 | KINGS OF LEON | The Bandit | 63 |
| 48 | 43 | LIKE A STORM | Empire Of Ashes | 57 |
| 49 | 45 | CORE | Save Me | 56 |
| 50 | 50 | CAPTIVES | Glass Heart | 52 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
DIRTY HONEY – “California Dreamin'”
With the cover song trend going strong these days with rock artists, I assumed that Dirty Honey’s “California Dreamin'” was going to be a cover of the hit song by The Mamas & The Papas of the same name, but I was wrong. Not only is it an original song, but the lyrics are not nearly as happy and breezy as the song that people associate with the title. That is by design. Frontman Mark LaBelle shared the inspiration for the song with Rolling Stone…
“I knew there already was a song called ‘California Dreaming’, but I wanted to do a different take on it. The dream isn’t always realized when you come out here, a lot of people end up moving back to where they came from because they didn’t achieve the fame and fortune that they were dreaming of. It can be a pretty dark place, and that’s where I wanted to take the lyrics. It’s kind of a dark song and it came from a place that’s autobiographical, but fortunately, at least now, things feel like they’re looking up.”
“California Dreamin'” is a soulful, bluesy rocker that is firmly rooted in the classic rock sound that instantly launched these newcomers onto the radar of hard rock fans and radio programmers. The foundation of the song is built upon the ’70s blues rock sound of Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, and Deep Purple, but there is an upbeat quality to the melody that has subtle reminders of 1980s Whitesnake. Though the influences are obvious, Dirty Honey puts things together in an interesting and fresh way that makes it feel current and relevant.
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…
DIRTY HONEY – “California Dreamin'”
GEMINI SYNDROME – “IDK”
THE DEAD DAISIES – “Holy Ground”
CRASH MIDNIGHT – “Killing Time”
THEM EVILS – “Coattails”
EMPTY TRAIL – “Somewhere”
THE LOYAL ORDER – “Fuck Or Fight”
AS STRANGE AS ANGELS – “The Curse”
OH! THE HORROR – “Tears Of Gold”
LOVE AND DEATH – “Down”
THE ODDEVEN – “Bleed For Something”
RIDING WITH KILLERS – “World Apart”
VEER– “Red Tide”
WOLVES AT THE GATE – “Counterfeit”
SAM COFFEY & THE IRON LUNGS – “Back With The Gang”
FOOLPROOF – “Violet”
TEENAGE WRIST – “Earth Is A Black Hole”
GREATEST GAINERS…
| ARTIST | SONG TITLE | SPIN INCREASE |
| FOO FIGHTERS | Waiting On A War | 174 |
| AYRON JONES | Mercy | 163 |
| PRETTY RECKLESS | And So It Went | 149 |
| OFFSPRING | Let The Bad Times Roll | 136 |
| GRETA VAN FLEET | Heat Above | 134 |
| CHEVELLE | Self Destructor | 124 |
| SEETHER | Bruised And Bloodied | 114 |
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