102.1 The Edge, a.k.a. CFNY, has unveiled the top 102 "new rock songs" of all time, according to 102.1 The Edge listeners.
This is the list they played Saturday, May 19, 2012.
- Sublime - Santeria
- Nirvana - Come As You Are
- Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
- The Smashing Pumpkins - Today
- The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
- Weezer - Buddy Holly
- Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
- The Tragically Hip - New Orleans Is Sinking
- Blur - Song 2
- The Killers - Somebody Told Me
- Pearl Jam - Even Flow
- Our Lady Peace - Naveed
- Green Day - When I Come Around
- Alice In Chains - Man In The Box
- The Tragically Hip - Ahead By A Century
- The Offspring - Self Esteem
- Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
- Arcade Fire - Wake Up
- Nine Inch Nails - Closer
- Finger Eleven - One Thing
- Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
- Oasis - Wonderwall
- Billy Talent - Try Honesty
- The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
- City And Colour/Dallas Green - Save Your Sissors
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
- Metric - Gimme Sympathy
- Bush - Glycerine
- Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
- Our Lady Peace - Superman's Dead
- Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
- Sum 41 - Fat Lip
- Sublime - What I Got
- The Tragically Hip - Little Bones
- Muse - Uprising
- Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You
- Mumford And Sons - Little Lion Man
- K-OS - Crabbuckit
- Radiohead - Creep
- Sam Roberts - Brother Down
- Green Day - Brain Stew
- The Tragically Hip - Fifty-Mission cap
- Weezer - Say It Ain't So
- Foo Fighters - Everlong
- Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
- The Black Keys - Tighten Up
- Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
- Tool - Sober
- Pearl Jam - Jeremy
- Coldplay - Yellow
- The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
- The Killers - Mr. Brightside
- Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire
- Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
- Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
- Beck - Loser
- Our Lady Peace - Starseed
- Linkin Park - In The End
- Oasis - Champagne Supernova
- Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days
- The Tragically Hip - Blow At High Dough
- Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty
- Three Days Grace - Animal I Have Become
- Green Day - American Idiot
- Billy Talent - The River Below
- Incubus - Drive
- Arcade Fire - Ready To Start
- MGMT - Kids
- Our Lady Peace - Innocent
- Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows
- Metric - Help, I'm Alive
- Foo Fighters - Best Of You
- The Tragically Hip - At The Hundredth Meridian
- Blind Melon - No Rain
- Sum 41 - In Too Deep
- The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
- Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
- Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
- Bob Marley/The Wailers - Jammin'
- Our Lady Peace - One Man Army
- The Offspring - Come Out And Play
- Alexisonfire - This Could Be Anywhere
- Muse - Starlight
- The Tragically Hip - Courage
- Beastie Boys - Sabotage
- Billy Talent - Devil In A Midnight Mass
- Nirvana - Lithium
- Three Days Grace - Just Like You
- Radiohead - Karma Police
- K-OS - Man I Used To Be
- Coldplay - Viva La Vida
- City And Colour/Gord Downie - Sleeping Sickness
- Beastie Boys - Figth For Your Right
- The Matthew Good Band - Load Me Up
- Pearl Jam - Daughter
- Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
- Alice In Chains - No Excuses
- The Tragically Hip - Poets
- Blink-182 - All The Small Things
- Bedouin Soundclash - When The Night Feels My Song
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
102.1 The Edge likes to do this with great frequency. In fact, they did it just last Labour Day. Here's how the list looked then.
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
- Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
- Nirvana - Come As You Are
- Metallica - The Unforgiven
- Foo Fighters - My Hero
- Linkin Park - In The End
- U2 - With Or Without You
- The Tragically Hip - Ahead By A Century
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
- Pearl Jam - Even Flow
- House Of Pain - Jump Around
- Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside
- Nirvana - All Apologies
- The Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon
- The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
- Foo Fighters - Best Of You
- Beck - Loser
- U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
- Beastie Boys - Figth For Your Right
- Metallica - Enter Sandman
- The Tragically Hip - Courage
- Blind Melon - No Rain
- The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
- Our Lady Peace - Is Anybody Home?
- Blur - Song 2
- Billy Talent - Try Honesty
- MGMT - Kids
- The Tragically Hip - Poets
- R.E.M - Losing My Religion
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away
- Lenny Kravitz - American Woman
- Foo Fighters - Everlong
- Oasis - Wonderwall
- Green Day - Brain Stew
- The Tragically Hip - Blow At High Dough
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
- Coldplay - Clocks
- Linkin Park - Numb
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
- Nirvana - Rape Me
- Incubus - Drive
- Pearl Jam - Alive
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul To Squeeze
- Nirvana - About A Girl
- Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
- Oasis - Champagne Supernova
- Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
- Rage Against The Machine - Testify
- Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You
- The Offspring - Self Esteem
- Our Lady Peace - Somewhere Out There
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Around The World
- The Tragically Hip - At The Hundredth Meridian
- Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
- K-OS - Crabbuckit
- Foo Fighters - All My Life
- Billy Talent - Fallen Leaves
- Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of
- Finger Eleven - One Thing
- Stone Temple Pilots - Creep
- Our Lady Peace - Innocent
- Green Day - Time Of Your Life
- Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #3
- Radiohead - Karma Police
- Sum 41 - In Too Deep
- Nine Inch Nails - Closer
- The Tragically Hip - Fifty-Mission cap
- Sublime - Smoke Two Joints
- Our Lady Peace - Superman's Dead
- Foo Fighters - Times Like These
- Billy Talent - Devil In A Midnight Mass
- Pearl Jam - Jeremy
- Three Days Grace - Just Like You
- Coldplay - Viva La Vida
- Bedouin Soundclash - When The Night Feels My Song
- The Killers - Mr. Brightside
- Sum 41 - Fat Lip
- Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
- Our Lady Peace - Life
- Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
- Metric - Gimme Sympathy
- Everlast - What It's Like
- Nickelback - How You Remind Me
- Nirvana - The Mand Who Sold The World
- The Tragically Hip - Little Bones
- Green Day - When I Come Around
- Sam Roberts - Brother Down
- Pearl Jam - Daughter
- Finger Eleven - First Time
- Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
- Sloan - Money City Maniacs
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
- Our Lady Peace - Naveed
- Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire
- Big Wreck - The Oaf
- Blink-182 - All The Small Things
- Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker - Laces Out
- The Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
- Three Days Grace - Never Too Late
It's pretty amazing to see the #1 song from Labour Day 2011 finish 78th this weekend. That was a Red Hot Chili Peppers tune, a band that placed 10 songs in the top 102 last time, but only 3 this time. Are Edge listeners finally tiring of all RHCP all the time?
The Tragically Hip placed 8 songs in the top 102 this time around, making them champs. But this list looks surprisingly different than the last one. Santeria, a surprise #1 this time around, didn't crack the top 102 last time.
Does anyone else want to chime in with observations?