Here are the Billboard Top 50 Mainstream Rock Song list for 2014. I was going to actually subject myself to the whole list, but it turns out that only a select group of songs are playable. And I'm too lazy to actually plug a bunch of crap I don't care about into YouTube's search feature. So I'm not going to do that. Instead I'm going to talk very briefly about the number-one mainstream rock song of 2014.
(By the way, just looking at this list, "mainstream rock" has apparently become an absurdly fat synagogue, hasn't it? Anyway...)
The number-one song is "Heaven Knows" by The Pretty Reckless.
Hey, guys, remember this? Specifically, numbers 3 and 4? Because this song sounds like the love-child of "We Will Rock You" and "Another Brick in the Wall." Hot diggity.
One possible conclusion is that it's the music my generation grew up with that sucked, not the music my generation is producing (TPR's singer/main creative force is younger than me, which kinda makes me start to feel old). Another possible conclusion is that this song is literally the diamond in the rough, the exception that proves the rule, etc.
In order not to spoil this moment, I must proceed no further down the list. To do so would almost certainly end in bitter disappointment. (And a lower average number of music videos where the singer gets naked. Can't have that.)
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