Once upon a time (From 1986 to 2008 to be exact), Live 105 used to do a New Year's countdown of the top 105.3 songs of the year. Somewhere along the line, management must have decided that doing so was passe, and now they no longer do it. I miss them. It was a fun way to hear some of the songs the station had stopped playing one last time.
Now in its place, Live 105 does a much smaller list of the top songs of the year, and they only post it to their website. If you want to see the 25 songs that dominated the year, you can see the list below (especially since this list will likely disappear from the Internet in a week). Happy 2016!
1. X Ambassadors- Renegades
2. Cold War Kids- First
3. Twenty One Pilots- Tear in My Heart
4. Beck- Dreams
5. Halsey- New Americana
6. Mumford and Sons- Believe
7. Twenty One Pilots- Stressed Out
8. Muse- Dead Inside
9. Coleman Hell- 2 Heads
10. Mumford and Sons- The Wolf
11. Death Cab for Cutie- Black Sun
12. Panic! at the Disco- Hallelujah
13. Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats- S.O.B.
14. Imagine Dragons- Shots
15. AWOLNATION- I Am
16. Of Monsters and Men- Crystals
17. Fall Out Boy- Uma Thurman
18. Alabama Shakes- Don't Wanna Fight
19. Imagine Dragons- Roots
20. CHVRCHES- Leave a Trace
21. The Struts- Could Have Been Me
22. Vance Joy- Fire and the Flood
23. Death Cab for Cutie- The Ghosts of Beverly Drive
24. Florence + the Machine- Ship to Wreck
25. Weezer- Thank God for Girls
I hope the lack of Elle King's "Ex's and Oh's" is as surprising to you as it is to me.
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Friday, January 1, 2016
Saturday, October 24, 2015
BONUS: Live 105's top 105 of 2008
Yeah, I won't be getting to 2008 for a while (Likely before the next Ice Age. I promise!), but I stumbled across this on Archive.org and wanted to post it here.
Live 105's year-end countdown had been a tradition since the station started, but it looks like they stopped doing them after this.
It always annoyed me that half of the list would be comprised of songs from previous years. I don't mean songs that came out the previous year but became bigger that year. I mean songs that came out in the previous year but were barely played that year. Sometimes it was even songs from two to four years earlier. It just seems like they're pushing out a lot of smaller songs that still had somewhat of an impact.
But I digress. Here's the list.
Live 105's year-end countdown had been a tradition since the station started, but it looks like they stopped doing them after this.
It always annoyed me that half of the list would be comprised of songs from previous years. I don't mean songs that came out the previous year but became bigger that year. I mean songs that came out in the previous year but were barely played that year. Sometimes it was even songs from two to four years earlier. It just seems like they're pushing out a lot of smaller songs that still had somewhat of an impact.
But I digress. Here's the list.
Friday, August 7, 2015
Bonus: WHFS' top 99.1 songs of 1991
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have a close personal connection to WHFS. Before I moved to the Bay Area, it was my station of choice. Unfortunately, I was too young to have been listening during alternative rock's peak period of popularity, so I've always been curious about what the station sounded like in those days. For the longest time, my resource for that kind of thing has been Rocklists.com, which has year-end countdowns from several important modern rock stations, including KROQ in L.A., 91X in San Diego, Live 105, and yes, even HFS.
This site contains the year-end list for 1992, as well as every year from 1994 to 2004 (The station became defunct in 2005, but has resurfaced on at least two occasions and can currently be heard on 104.9 in Baltimore.) While it is great to see what the station was like musically each year, the lack of 1993 is disappointing as is the lack of any year before '92 (especially 1991, the year that Nirvana's Nevermind catapulted alternative into the mainstream). To make matters worse, Rocklists.com hasn't updated with any new lists since 2008, so I don't know how active it still is.
The good news? I recently came across a site called Einstein's Legacy, which features downloadable files of every one of HFS' year-end countdowns from 1991 to 1999. From its selection of songs to the various IDs, deejays, and commercials, it truly is a wonderful throwback for those who experienced HFS in the '90s and a great curio for anyone who just wants to know what it was like. Now the 2 lists I always wanted to see on Rocklists.com can be found on the Internet. If you want to experience the tapes in all their glory, I strongly suggest going over to Einstein's Legacy. If you just want to see what songs made the list in text form, you've come to the right place. I'll be posting the 1993 list tomorrow.
(Songs are in reverse order.)
1. Jesus Jones- Right Here, Right Now
This site contains the year-end list for 1992, as well as every year from 1994 to 2004 (The station became defunct in 2005, but has resurfaced on at least two occasions and can currently be heard on 104.9 in Baltimore.) While it is great to see what the station was like musically each year, the lack of 1993 is disappointing as is the lack of any year before '92 (especially 1991, the year that Nirvana's Nevermind catapulted alternative into the mainstream). To make matters worse, Rocklists.com hasn't updated with any new lists since 2008, so I don't know how active it still is.
The good news? I recently came across a site called Einstein's Legacy, which features downloadable files of every one of HFS' year-end countdowns from 1991 to 1999. From its selection of songs to the various IDs, deejays, and commercials, it truly is a wonderful throwback for those who experienced HFS in the '90s and a great curio for anyone who just wants to know what it was like. Now the 2 lists I always wanted to see on Rocklists.com can be found on the Internet. If you want to experience the tapes in all their glory, I strongly suggest going over to Einstein's Legacy. If you just want to see what songs made the list in text form, you've come to the right place. I'll be posting the 1993 list tomorrow.
(Songs are in reverse order.)
46. Erasure- Chorus
28. U2- The Fly
14. James- Sit Down
6. Seal- Crazy
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