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According to Loudwire, Marilyn Manson tops the top 20 Rock songs this year. That's awesome! Anyone else follow rock nowadays? Anyways, heres the link...

http://loudwire.com/20-best-rock-songs-2015/

My experience with Rock Music in 2015, in delicious green text form:

>Puts radio on to listen to music at a time other than 80's at 8:00 or 90's at Noon.
>DJ does Hunter S. Thompson Impression. The impressive impression is impressive.
>Commercials
>Dream Theatre's "Pull me Under" starts playing.
>Me: WOW! This song is great! Maybe 2015 won't be a shitty year for music.
> "I LOVE THIS NEW WAAAAAAAAAAVE!" starts playing.
>Me:... Alright, high points and low points. I get it. It's alright.
>All new hour starts. It's an hour of fresh hell and equally forgettable bullshit.
>Me: Maybe not the best year, but there was one good song in there...
>Goes to listen to it on Youtube. Discovers that the song is a little more than 6 years older than I am.
>Crawls back under musical rock, not daring to hurt my ears with anything other than the suggestions of close friends.
>Months later, sees this thread.
>Discovers that Marilyn Manson is still alive.
>Listens to song.
>Thanks Marilyn for being tolerable.
>Two thumbs up. +1 Thank 4 the one song I listened to this year that was from this year. 420blazeit best song ftw fazeclan shits itself.

Lol, there was some pretty trendy and awesome songs that came out this year (most of which came from Manson) but in all, the year hasn't been so bad for rock music this year. Added, Cage the Elephant has an upcoming album the 18th, which is going to be great (hopefully).

Also, 'Run' by Awolnation should be on that list. No acceptions. Here is the link for that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2kKyJu9gY

This is literally the worst greentext I've ever seen. Fucking normie. 

Of the groups on that list; in general:  Don't care for Halestorm.  Like Shinedown, Disturbed, Manson, Clutch.

I liked that Royal Thunder song. 

Halestorm has some seriously cool instrumentals, but Lizzie herself is a little bit too screamy. I like her much better when she actually tries to sing, like when she did that cover of the (I think?) Guns and Roses song with that other music guy.

Halestorm's not as bad as The Pretty Reckless, in my opinion. I've had goats with prettier voices than Taylor Momsen's.

Now that I have time to sit down and listen to this:

20. Huh. That one was okay.

19. Na-ha-hiiice.

18. Eugh... Too head-sticky to genuinely enjoy it. Earworms generally aren't my thing, I prefer songs I would actually have to listen to in order to hear them clearly. This just wasn't very stimulating.

17. A clown? In a Hard Rock Music Video?... This is my school's chromebook. I don't want to risk putting that in my history...

16. See, Malkalack? This is why you should never make sweeping statements about a certain group! I hate country, but if I ever said that country musicians were obnoxious trailer trash with generic voices who could never hope to produce anything remotely good in their lives, I'd sure look like a real ass when this song came around!... Good thing I never said that!... Ever... In my life...

15. Pop Evil! And this time the lyrics aren't even sad? What a time to be alive!

14. I found that video pretty enjoyable once the speakers were muted.

13. Oh god... The fact that Jenny is on this list kind of detracts from my faith in the quality of all the ones on this list I haven't listened to yet. Then again, #16 kind of made me start to doubt the Rock community's taste in music as well. I mean, no disrespect to the material or anything. I get that it's serious shit, and good on them for giving people struggling with life problems some empathy... But it's just a really, really horrible noise.

12. Holy wow... I should look into Puscifer... Why don't my radio guys play this kind of shit!?

11. PRAISE THE LORD! Clutch never fails!

10. That was... Okay?... I didn't really like it, but I didn't hate it. It was good, though

9. Astounding homework music!

8. It's long been my opinion that if you've heard one Disturbed song, you've heard them all. Now it's different: If you've heard only this Disturbed song, you should ignore all the other ones.

7. Breaking Benjamin? You mean the guy's still alive?... And they still make mediocre music that gets on top 20s?... Well, I'm not too surprised about the latter. There's not many lists an army of 15-year-old girls can't get you onto... That joke might've been a little unfair, but I haven't seen any Black Veil Brides yet, and I've been dying to make that joke ever since I first went to Bandcamp...

6.Wow, that was really good! That one goes in my youtube playlist!

5. Eh, not really my kind of song, but it was enjoyable nonetheless. I might come to like it as time goes by. Like green beans, or weed brownies.

4. Glorious! Another one for the youtube collection.

3. They may as well have kept playing the annoying bagpipe-flute from the beginning throughout the song for all the difference it made. If it weren't for the sick beat/bass I wouldn't have made it through the song. 

2.  I like this one. I don't love it, or like it as much as some of the others, or even really see why it should be first on this list other than, "A million billion people listened to/bought this". Listening to this song with hardcore Halestorm fans is a bit like watching body-builder shower porn with your friends on blu-ray with a really fancy HD TV: You can appreciate the geometric beauty, the crystalline water, and the power and effort it took to get there, and there's something oddly enjoyable about it, but you just can't get a boner no matter how hard you try. And then your friends think you're weird, but you turn around and call them weird for inviting you to a party when all they're really doing is having a palm orgy to a bunch of statuesque figures so ripped they can't wipe their own asses. And then everyone just kind of basks in their own shame together and you decide the night is better spent eating pizza and playing CoD instead.

1. If there's one thing I know about Marilyn Manson music, it's when this man breaks out the Funk, it's bound to be awesome. And it was! I kinda agree with this one, honestly.

The only thing I disagree with you in this list is number three- 'Cut the Cord'- that's an awesome song in my opinion and the bass (and bagpipes too, dammit!) were astounding to me.

Bagpipes are best when there's a chorus of them, and/or drums backing them up. One bagpiper on his own is horrible to listen to unless he's really good and changing notes often. (See: The Ghostly Bagpiper in Runescape) I just find the whole "Freedom" anthem annoying to be an annoying sound and tone, and the lyrics just weren't that great to listen to, in substance or melody imho. Bagpipes have been done well in Rock before, (Particularly when Bon Scott got ahold of one of them) but this was so obnoxious that I feel almost like bagpipes everywhere should be offended. They should have opened up with a Swiss Yodeler screaming his head off for all that intro sequence fit there.

... I also hate Shinedown...

Well, our opinions differ but there is a least one more person in the world that likes the song. It may be 1,000,000, it may be only 1,000, but at least ONE other person likes the song as well.

Numbers matter not. Ever read Plato's "Republic"? Ever seen Trump's approval ratings? The masses are too stupid to govern themselves. They should be ruled by the wise few. The wise few who can understand that Cut the Cord is a barely tolerable piece of music.

Amen.

How can you deny that there is a high level of intenseness in that song. I'm not saying it's the best song I've ever heard, far from it, but it is a decent song with some sick bass riffs and some pretty good vocals.

Like I said, the bass riffs and the drums were the only thing that kept me listening to the to it from beginning to end. Can't feel the intensity at all really, since I'm overwhelmed with how much I can't stand literally any other parts of the song.

Well, then our opinions differ at some points. Music is my life and just wanted to throw it out there.

Do you know what Carolina Rebellion is? A sick concert in the state where I live, here is the lineup...

http://carolinarebellion.com/lineup.html

The lineup is awesome and if you love rock music it is like the holy grail of rock music. Last year's lineup was even better, but I failed to buy the tickets.

Since this is a pretty generic list, can I do my list of [20] best rock songs (if I can get to that)? Pretty please. Alright, I couldn't think of 20, so top 10:

10. Blur - Lonesome Road Street (bloody hell Fallout on my mind) (I honestly couldn't think of anything else. Sorry)

9. Girlpool - Before the World Was Big

8. Waxahatchee - Poison

7. Bully - I Remember

6. Speedy Ortiz - The Graduates

5. FFS - Johnny Delusional / Piss Off (couldn't decide between the two songs)

4. Hop Along - Waitress

3. Courtney Barrnet - Depreston

2. Father John Misty - The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apt.

1. Torres - Strange Hellos

Pretty sure most of these should be on youtube, check them out. If not, I'll put them up somewhere else.

My favorite rock songs (not the best, just my personal favorite) of all time have come in this handy little list...

1. Deep Six by Marilyn Manson
2. The Distance by Cake
3. Cigarette Daydreams by Cage the Elephant
4. Run by Awolnation
5. Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones
6. The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson
7. Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes
8. Hurt by Johnny Cash (And Nine Inch Nails- a two-fer!)
9. Mephistopheles of Los Angeles by Marilyn Manson
10. March of the Pigs by Nine Inch Nails

Manson rules the list.