The Top 100 Rock Songs of 2008
Close Calls
132 The Duke Spirit “The Step and The Walk”
131 Buckcherry “Don’t Go Away”
130 Bret Michaels “Fallen”
129 Eddie Vedder “No More”
128 Franz Ferdinand “Ulysses”
127 Nickelback “Gotta Be Somebody”
126 The Mars Volta “Wax Simulacra”
125 The Offspring “Kristy, Are You Doing OK?”
124 The Spill Canvas “All Over You”
123 Metro Station “Shake It”
122 Bloc Party “Mercury”
121 Eddie Vedder “Guaranteed”
120 Vampire Weekend “Oxford Comma”
119 The Kooks “Always Where I Need To Be”
118 The Wombats “Let’s Dance To Joy Division”
117 Alter Bridge “Watch Over You”
116 Hinder “Use Me”
115 TV On The Radio “Dancing Choose”
114 Coldplay “Lovers In Japan”
113 Trapt “Who’s Going Home With You Tonight?”
112 Metallica “Cyanide”
111 The Virgins “Rich Girls”
110 One Day As A Lion “Wild International”
109 Shinedown “Second Chance”
108 3 Doors Down “Train”
107 Rocco DeLuca and The Burden “Save Yourself”
106 OAR “Shattered”
105 Anberlin “Feel Good Drag”
104 Saving Abel “18 Days”
103 Hinder “Without You”
102 Simple Plan “Save You”
101 Red Jumpsuit Apparatus “You Better Pray”
Top 100
100 Panic At The Disco “Nine In The Afternoon”
99 Coldplay “Lost!”
98 Armor For Sleep “Williamsburg”
97 Hollywood Undead “No. 5″
96 MGMT “Electric Feel”
95 Incubus “Love Hurts”
94 Coheed and Cambria “Feathers”
93 The Used “Pretty Handsome Awkward”
92 Atreyu “Slow Burn”
91 Death Cab For Cutie “Cath…”
90 Hard-Fi “Suburban Knights”
89 Theory Of A Deadman “Bad Girlfriend”
88 Vampire Weekend “A-Punk”
87 Bret Michaels “Go That Far”
86 Serj Tankian “Sky Is Over”
85 Saving Abel “Addicted”
84 We Are Scientists “After Hours”
83 Coheed and Cambria “The Running Free”
82 Muse “Map Of The Problematique”
81 Foo Fighters “Let It Die”
80 Buckcherry “Sorry”
79 Silversun Pickups “Well Though Out Twinkles”
78 MGMT “Time To Pretend”
77 Seether “Fake It”
76 Paramore “Misery Business”
75 Jack’s Mannequin “The Resolution”
74 Snow Patrol “Crack The Shutters”
73 Metallica “All Nightmare Long”
72 The Myriad “A Clean Shot”
71 Ludo “Love Me Dead”
70 Hawthorne Heights “Rescue Me”
69 Korn “Hold On”
68 Hollywood Undead “Undead”
67 Muse “Supermassive Black Hole”
66 Radiohead “Bodysnatchers”
65 30 Seconds To Mars “A Beautiful Lie”
64 Foo Fighters “Long Road To Ruin”
63 Puddle Of Mudd “Psycho”
62 Seether “Breakdown”
61 Simple Plan “When I’m Gone”
60 Red “Already Over”
59 Beck “GammaRay”
58 Rise Against “Re-Education (Through Labor)”
57 Jimmy Eat World “Big Casino”
56 3 Doors Down “Citizen Soliders”
55 The National “Apartment Story”
54 Linkin Park “Bleed It Out”
53 Theory Of A Deadman “So Happy”
52 SafetySuit “Someone Like You”
51 Slipknot “Dead Memories”
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50 Staind “Believe”
49 Seether “Rise Above This”
48 REM “Supernatural “Superserious”
47 Serj Tankian “Empty Walls”
46 Coldplay “Violet Hill”
45 Biffy Clyro “Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies”
44 Silversun Pickups “Little Lovers So Polite”
43 Weezer “Troublemaker”
42 Jimmy Eat World “Always Be”
41 The All-American Rejects “Gives You Hell”
40 Against Me! “Stop”
39 Scars On Broadway “They Say”
38 Coldplay “Viva La Vida” Most Days @#1 on JRL in 2008 by a rock band/artist (21)
37 The White Stripes “Conquest”
36 The Raconteurs “Salute Your Solution”
35 Three Days Grace “Never Too Late”
34 Simple Plan “Your Love Is A Lie”
33 InnerPartySystem “Don’t Stop”
32 Paramore “That’s What You Get”
31 Alkaline Trio “Help Me”
30 The Offspring “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid”
29 The Killers “Human”
28 Slipknot “Psychosocial”
27 Carolina Liar “I’m Not Over”
26 3 Doors Down “It’s Not My Time”
25 Foo Fighters “The Pretender”
24 Avenged Sevenfold “Almost Easy”
23 Story Of The Year “Wake Up”
22 Thriving Ivory “Angels On The Moon”
21 Snow Patrol “Take Back The City”
20 Kings Of Leon “Sex On Fire”
19 Shinedown “Devour”
18 Ashes Divide “The Stone”
17 The Airborne Toxic Event “Sometime After Midnight”
16 Disturbed “Inside The Fire”
15 AC/DC “Rock N’ Roll Train”
14 Paramore “Crushcrushcrush” #1 song in 2007
13 Linkin Park “Leave Out All The Rest”
12 Metallica “The Day That Never Comes”
11 The Bravery “Believe”
10 Death Cab For Cutie “I Will Possess Your Heart”
9 Oasis “The Shock Of The Lightning”
8 Linkin Park “Shadow Of The Day”
7 Apocalyptica/Corey Taylor “I’m Not Jesus”
6 The Offspring “Hammerhead”
5 Avenged Sevenfold “Afterlife” Highest song not to be #1 on 15Rock
4 Weezer “Pork and Beans”
3 Atreyu “Falling Down”
2 Linkin Park “Given Up”
1 Paramore “Decode”
Notable Snubs:
The Myriad “You Waste Time Like A Grandfather Clock”
The Raconteurs “Old Enough”
REM “Hollow Man”
Mudvayne “Do What You Do”
Sixx:AM “Accidents Can Happen”
Sixx:AM “Tomorrow”
Neurosonic “So Many People”
Chevelle “The Fad”
Chevelle “I Get It”
Cavo “Champagne”
Cobra Starship “The City Is At War”
Ludo “Go-Getter Greg”
The Virgins “Private Affair”
Mötley Crüe “MF Of The Year”
TV On The Radio “Golden Age”
The Black Keys “Strange Times”
Scott Weiland “Missing Cleveland”
Hoobastank “My Turn”
Bullet For My Valentine “Scream Aim Fire”
Cold War Kids “Something Is Not Right With Me”
Buckcherry “Too Drunk”
Mötley Crüe “Saints Of Los Angeles”