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Jason DeRulo- In My Head
D (This has become the latest casualty of "I used to like it until I paid attention to the extremely stupid lyrics." And I was even willing to try to not be irritated by 'Jason Derulo/Beluga Heights' at the beginning. But what the hell...this is a not very clever at all song about trying to get a bj with an even more ridiculous attempt to make it 'open to interpretation,' even involving the album cover which shows a close-up of the head that Jason DeRulo wants to dummy all the censors to think he's talking about. Seriously, Jason DeRulo, keep this kind of stuff on your LiveJournal.)Lady GaGa f/ Beyonce- Telephone
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Rihanna- Rude Boy
DLady Antebellum- Need You Now
B+Train- Hey Soul Sister
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B.O.B. f/ Bruno Mars- Nothin' On You
B-Black Eyed Peas- Imma Be nh/dr
Taio Cruz f/ Ludacris- Break Your Heart
A-The Script- Breakeven
B+Timbaland f/ Justin Timberlake- Carryout
DKesha- Tik Tok
DOneRepublic- All the Right Moves
B+ (It's growing on me.)Adam Lambert- Whataya Want From Me
B- (This has begun grating on me. Mostly because I can't get the spelling of 'whataya' out of my mind every time I hear it.)Young Money f/ Lloyd- Bedrock nh/dr
Lady GaGa- Bad Romance
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(Every time I hear this my (still as of now) favorable opinion of Lady Gaga continues to die a slow death.)Kesha- Your Love is My Drug
C-Trey Songz- Say Aah nh/dr
Selena Gomez & the Scene- Naturally
DIyaz- Solo nh/dr
Taylor Swift- Today Was A Fairytale
C- (Yawn...)John Mayer- Heartbreak Warfare
B+Christina Aguilera- Not Myself Tonight
C- (For now. Oh, and was anyone else taken aback by her latest CD cover? Just never expected anything like that from her.)Lady GaGa- Alejandro
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(Now if all stations would drop Bad Romance in favor of this. I'm sure it'll happen soon enough, but maybe not. I may have to endure a few months of 'Telephone' first, which I still don't hear that often.)Lifehouse- Halfway Gone
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La Roux- Bulletproof
BSean Kingston & Justin Bieber- Eenie Meenie nh/dr
Daughtry- Life After You
C-Jay-Z f/ Mr. Hudson- Young Forever nh/dr
Kevin Rudolf- I Made It
C- (Pshaw. Having a #6 and #25 pop hit does not mean you 'made it' or that you have permission to namedrop the former in your third song. But 'Let It Rock' took about a year to grown on me, so I'm not ruling this one out completely yet.)Justin Bieber- Baby
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Usher f/ Will.I.Am- OMG nh/dr
Timbaland- If We Ever Meet Again nh/dr
Travie McCoy f/ Bruno Mars- Billionaire
C+Rob Thomas- Someday
C (This is a good example of a song that has just about everything in it that could make it truly stellar, and yet is just kinda there.)Spose- I'm Awesome
D+ (The novelty's wearing off.)New Boyz f/ Ray J- Tie Me Down nh/dr
Ludacris- How Low nh/dr
Kelly Clarkson- All I Ever Wanted
D (I wonder if she realizes how safe and bland she really is. She probably does. Heck, I'd do the same thing if I could get hit after hit with it.)Shontelle- Impossible nh/dr
Kesha f/ 3Oh!3- Blah Blah Blah
C- Crash46 sez: (and one last thing: Kesha might as well should just join 3Oh!3, or the other way around or something; they are a match made in heaven.) (Yeah...)Nickelback- This Afternoon
B- (Honestly, these guys continue to surprise & delight me on how cornball they can possibly go and that's why I can't give them much lower than this. Just when I think I've heard enough, they up the ante.)Michael Buble- Haven't Met You Yet
D (I probably wouldn't mind this as much if it would have stayed on AC like it should have)We the Kings- We'll Be a Dream
D+ (And the video is just so "". What are they doing, playing red rover? Oh, and who the hell is Demi Lovato.)JLS- Everybody In Love nh
but sounds like an orgy to me...Vita Chambers- Young Money nh/dr
Charice f/ Iyaz- Pyramid nh/dr
Timbaland f/ Drake- Say Something
C (Hot James remake!)Theory of a Deadman- All or Nothing
B (Hot Cher remake!) -or- (Hot hyrmsomedaymuym remake!)Ludacris f/ Nicki Manaj- My Chick Bad
B+ (For now. After one listen, this is as stupidly hilarious as "Skinny Little Bitch" and I appreciated how he pronounced "yours" "urs" just so he could rhyme it with "words".)Jaicko- Fast Forward
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Stone Temple Pilots- Between the Lines
B- (I'm not that much of a fan, but it gets 1/3 of a grade up for rhyming "love" with "drug" and then another 1/3 for rhyming "drug" with "drugs.")Muse- Resistance
B+ (Although the album version would get 1/3 to 2/3 of a grade higher. They didn't need to kill off that much of the piano intro.)Crash Kings- Mountain Man
D (I probably would have actually been rooting for this if it had stayed in But the 30s where it belonged.)Dirty Hands- Lay Me Down
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(Dirty Heads, you mean. Up until about last week, I just dismissed them as bad Sublime rip-offs, which they still are, but then I paid attention to the Wild Wild West theme in which they suddenly stopped running from the law to go walk and the beach to get some. Which was a bit too asininely non-sequitir to not make me like this song.) Rise Against- Savior
D (still?)Alice in Chains- Your Decision
B (still?, but in a different way, as in I never hear this anymore, how is it still this high.)Muse- Uprising
DChevelle- Letter from a Thief
CPhoenix- 1901
BParamore- Brick by Boring Brick
C- (Could never get into them.)Breaking Benjamin- Give Me a Sign
B-Weezer- I Want to
BTemper Trap- Sweet Disposition
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(I'm still surprised by their chart performance as most 80s rip-offs don't get past the 40s, let alone chart, except for the Killers but their success isn't even guaranteed anymore. It's probably because it was on the soundtrack to some movie I've never heard of and/or on some commercial I've never seen. Oh well, whatever works.)Flyleaf- Again
DSick Puppies- Odd One nh/dr
Silversun Pickups- The Royal We
B+ (After trying so hard to like most of their songs, to no avail, I stopped trying...and then somehow this one grows on me.)Three Days Grace- The Good Life
B- (after one listen)Metric- Gold Guns Girls
CWeezer- I'm Your Daddy
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(Ok, so I heard this at a certain bar a few weeks ago, and I'm never going to be able to think of this in the same way again. )30 Seconds to Mars- This is War
B- (Not a bad song, but 30STM is seriously starting to creep me out. Kings, queens, wars, prophets, messiahs...are they in some sort of cult or new age religion? Or just stuck in D&D land?)Hole- Skinny Little Bitch
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(Come back here you piece of trash, so I can kick your scrawny @$$. Classic.)Phoenix- Lisztomania
B+ (For now. Doesn't seem to make too much sense though.)Jack Johnson- You and Your Heart
B+ (I like all of his songs decently enough, but I wish one of these days he would feature something that would seriously make one stand out above the others. This hasn't happened since 'Flake' IMO.)Cypress Hill- Rise Up
C (After one listen)Flobots- f/ Tim McIlrath- White Flag Warrior
B (I miss hearing this song. It's so much better than "Handlebars.")Neon Trees- Animal
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Violent Soho- Jesus Stole My Girlfriend
C+Gorillaz- Stylo
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Civil Twilight- Letters from the Sky
B+ (I almost love this song. But it's missing something and I can't quite put my finger on it.)Broken Bells- High Road
B- (Not sure how a song this bland manages to be this catchy. Or vice versa.)Cage the Elephant- In One Ear
D (These guys are obnoxious. Enough already.)Dead Weather- Die by the Drop
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Deftones- Diamond Eyes
DGodsmack- Cryin' Like a Bitch nh/dr
Five Finger Death Punch- Walk Away nh/dr
Vampire Weekend- Cousins
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Bullet for My Valentine- Your Betrayal nh/dr
Them Crooked Vultures- Mind Eraser, No Chaser
B-Skillet- Monster
B-Hockey- Song Away
A (On the verge of getting the + too. Perhaps I love it so because it has the same producer as my favorite song.)American Bang- Wild and Young
A- (Such a stupid band name and stupid title, and yet such a good song.)Shinedown- The Crow and the Butterfly nh
but I'm not sure how anything good could possibly come of itCoheed and Cmabria- Her We Are Juggernaut
C+Dan Black- Symphonies
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Against Me!- I Was a Teenage Anarchist
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(A good song, though I was initially disappointed that it wasn't as good as Thrash Unreal. But the more I hear it I realize how clever it actually is.)Edward Sharpe/Magnetic
Zeros- Home
C- (Although, 'magnetic eros' would be quite the band name. Anyway, KFOG and Live 105 have been giving this a few spins on their new music programs for what seems like the past year and it sounds like a generic example of an original-but-yet-uninspired-and-totally-forgettable-hipster-indie-wannabe-song-from-a-band-with-a-borderline-asinine-name that would only get played on programs like that. Because of this I can't give it any higher, to start off. I'm also flabbergasted to see it on the actual chart, let alone as high as the 30s.) Needtobreathe- Hurricane
B (Still not sure why this is here, but is a lot better than everything they've released to AAA or Christian.)Mumford & Sons- Little Lion Man
C- (See Edward Sharpe, replace 'what seems like the past year' with 'the past few months', and replace 'and-totally-forgettable' with 'with-a-completely-unnecessary-f-bomb-dropped-at-the-end-just-to-give-it-alternative-cred.)Alkaline Trio- This Addiction
DOK Go- This Too Shall Pass
B (For now. I doubt it'll change much though.)AC[/u]
Kelly Clarkson- Already Gone
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Colbie Caillat- Fallin' For You
C-Taylor Swift- You Belong With Me
C-Uncle Kracker- Smile
DFive For Fighting- Chances
B+ (Well, glad to see this still charting somewhere.)Taylor Swift- Fifteen
DOwl City- Fireflies
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Kris Allen- Live Like We're Dying
C-Lady GaGa- Paparazzi
BMiley Cyrus- When I Look at You nh/dr
Nickelback- Never Gonna Be Alone
BAlicia Keys- Empire State of Mind
DForeigner- In Pieces
B+ (Lol...are they coming out with a new album or something?)Orianthi- According to You
B-Edwin McCain- Walk with You nh/dr
and although I guess he never really went away. He did have an AAA-only hit with Maia Sharp a few years ago that some Hot AC station in Cleveland played about 6 years ago.)Jonny Diaz- More Beautiful You nh/dr
Straight No Chaser- You're My Best Friend nh/dr
Boys Like Girls - Two is Better than One
D (Ok, I'm finally sick of this.)Sade- Soldier of Love
D (I really wanted to like this, too. I was looking forward to new Sade...not new painfully generic rhythmic garbage.)Hot AC[/u]
Bon Jovi- Superman Tonight
D+ (I don't really see the point, but whatever.)Snow Patrol- Just Say Yes
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Barenaked Ladies- You Run Away
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Pearl Jam- Just Breathe
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Melissa Etheridge- Fearless Love
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Ryan Star- Breathe nh/dr
Fray- Syndicate
B+ (This is the best they've done in awhile. Too bad I'm sick of them.)V V Brown- Shark in the Water
B-Cavo- Let it Go
C+ (What?!?!)Triple A[/u]
One Eskimo- Kandi
F (Ok, I tried to like this, but this is beyond stupid and the sampling adds nothing; I get the feeling they added it just because they wanted to sample Kandi Stanton and name the song after her. That and she sounds like a guy in the clip.)Dave Matthews Band- You & Me
DAvett Brothers- I & Love & YOu
D+ (Wow, look at me. I'm being unusually harsh on AAA these days! )
David Gray- Stella the Artist B+
Norah Jones- It's Gonna Be nh/dwt
John Butler Trio- One Way Road B+
Mat Kearney- All I Have C+
Alpha Rev- New Morning C (As generic AAA as you could possibly get.)
Needtobreathe- The Outsiders C
Citizen Cope- Healing Hands A-
Jamie Cullum- Wheels A-Fanfarlo- Harold T. Wilkins
B+ (This is still charting? Well I'd assume it's gone by now.)Corinne Bailey Rae- The Blackest Lily
CIngrid Michaelson- Everybody
C+Ryan Bingham- The Weary Kind nh/dr