HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 4/17/21

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 4/17/21

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 4/17/21. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

THIS	LAST
WEEK	WEEK	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	SPINS
1	2	PRETTY RECKLESS	And So It Went	1907
2	1	FOO FIGHTERS	Waiting On A War	1879
3	4	POP EVIL	Breathe Again	1576
4	5	SEETHER	Bruised And Bloodied	1492
5	3	CHEVELLE	Self destructor	1471
6	6	OFFSPRING	Let The Bad Times Roll	1376
7	7	BRING ME THE HORIZON	Teardrops	1313
8	8	ARCHITECTS	Animals	1275
9	9	AC/DC	Realize	1165
10	11	AYRON JONES	Mercy	1127
11	10	COREY TAYLOR	Samantha’s Gone	997
12	12	A DAY TO REMEMBER	Everything We Need	971
13	15	GRETA VAN FLEET	Heat Above	866
14	13	ESCAPE THE FATE (f. LINDSEY STERLING)	Invincible	863
15	14	DEFTONES	Ceremony	845
16	19	RISE AGAINST	Nowhere Generation	818
17	16	ZERO 9:36	Adrenaline	762
18	18	BLACK STONE CHERRY	Again	684
19	20	BLACK VEIL BRIDES	Scarlet Cross	650
20	21	DIRTY HONEY	California Dreamin’	606
21	22	BADFLOWER	F The World	565
22	25	ROYAL BLOOD	Typhoons	420
23	24	ATREYU (f. TRAVIS BARKER)	Warrior	407
24	23	DES ROCS	This Is Our Life	394
25	31	MAMMOTH WVH	Don’t Back Down	360
26	28	10 YEARS	The Unknown	317
27	30	EVANESCENCE	Better Without You	302
28	27	MYLES KENNEDY	In Stride	302
29	29	ALL TIME LOW (f. BLACKBEAR)	Monsters	299
30	36	BEARTOOTH	The Past Is Dead	257
31	26	LOVE AND DEATH	Down	244
32	33	TETRARCH	You Never Listen	240
33	34	KEITH WALLEN	Dream Away	208
34	40	DAUGHTRY	Heavy Is The Crown	198
35	32	MACHINE GUN KELLY	Bloody Valentine	197
36	35	A KILLER’S CONFESSION	Remember	167
37	41	BAD OMENS	Never Know	162
38	37	PLUSH	Hate	161
39	38	FOUNDRY	Not This Time	159
40	42	CORE	Save Me	140
41	39	3 DOORS DOWN	The Better Life (2021)	138
42	43	OH! THE HORROR	Tears Of Gold	123
43	76	ALL GOOD THINGS	For The Glory	100
44	44	WEEZER	All My Favorite Songs	86
45	46	TEENAGE WRIST	Earth Is A Black Hole	73
46	47	DEAD POET SOCIETY	.CoDA.	70
47	45	OF MICE & MEN	Anchor	66
48	53	PSYCHOSEXUAL	Devil From Hell	61
49	52	ANY GIVEN SIN	The Way I Say Goodbye	61
50	48	KINGS OF LEON	The Bandit	59

 

 

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

RISE AGAINST – “Nowhere Generation”

Back in the heyday of punk rock, there was a clear anti-establishment message that bonded fans together.  Though we live in a divisive era with constant political turmoil, there aren’t too many bands that capture the “us-against-the-world” mentality that was once so pervasive.  Rise Against is one of those bands.  However, unlike the pure piss and vinegar of songs like “Anarchy in the UK,” Rise Against delivers their message with a thought-provoking observation of society today.

Frontman Tim McIlrath is a late Gen Xer (often times referred to as a Xennial), but his insight on “Nowhere Generation” is not about his personal experience, but rather the collective experience of Millennials and members of Gen Z  in America.

In an interview with Revolver, McIlrath shared the inspiration for this brilliant anthem…

“This song was sort of inspired by a lot of the younger generation telling me about their anxieties, their concerns and worries about the future of the world around them.  At first I treated those accounts as ‘well, yeah, that’s every generation.’  We’re all swimming upstream against the tide, trying to overcome it.  But the tide nowadays has been manipulated.  It’s driven by a lot of external forces, which create things like the rise of the one percent, concentrated wealth, the decay of the middle class, and exploding college debt.  I realized that a lot of the issues that these generations are facing are unique to them.”

Personally speaking, I don’t envy the younger generations.  They are inheriting the mess that has been left behind by the generations that came before them.  Though that includes Gen X to some degree, I feel like we are a part of the “nowhere generation” as well.  Sandwiched between the larger Baby Boomer and Millennial generations, we are often treated as an afterthought.  But we at least got to enjoy the carefree days of youth before face-to-face interaction was largely replaced by the virtual world.  In many ways, we were blissfully ignorant about the ills of society.  The younger generations have no such innocence.

Like their previous single, “Broken Dreams, Inc.,” “Nowhere Generation” takes an unapologetic look at what society has become, and the death of the “American Dream” happening right before our eyes.  Though the message is fairly bleak, there is an uplifting quality to the song that binds people together the way that punk rock used to back in the 1970s.

 

 

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…

THE DAMN TRUTH – “This Is Who We Are Now”

SMITH/KOTZEN – “Running”

TAKE THE DAY – “Burning Alive”

CRASH MIDNIGHT – “Killing Time”

GEMINI SYNDROME – “IDK”

DANKO JONES – “I Want Out”

FOOLPROOF – “Violent”

DANNY WORSNOP – “Love You More”

CAVO – “Come Undone”

THE DEAD DAISIES – “Holy Ground”

THEM EVILS – “Coattails”

I FIGHT FAIL  – “Here”

SILENT THEORY –  “Shaking Cages”

SORAIA  – “Tight-Lipped”

SMASH INTO PIECES – “Real One”

PAUL BARTOLOME/KELLIN QUINN – “Set Fire To The Rain”

THE RELENTLESS – “Disarm”

 

 

GREATEST GAINERS…

		SPIN
ARTIST	SONG TITLE	INCREASE
RISE AGAINST	Nowhere Generation	156
MAMMOTH WVH	Don’t Back Down	124
POP EVIL	Breathe Again	108

 

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