THE PROBLEM WITH ROCK RADIO (it's worse than I thought...)

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

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[@kevindavid37]

Dude, Volbeat is 21 years old.

[@christiandauz3742]

Shinedown fan since Second Chance!

[@connergraham346]

My local “alt rock” station just plays Billy Eilish, Revivalists, Lumineers, and Bastille

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

My local rock radio station basically just plays Enter Sandman, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Another Brick in the Wall, and Kickstart My Heart on an endless loop. 😂😂😂

[@MusiciansIgnite]

YES, drives me crazy!!

[@coltennial9513]

Same, so sick of it. not that those are not good songs, but I wanna hear music I've never heard before.

[@Trollamollex]

There should be an hour or three dedicated to new artists or such. Songs from like within 3 years. Other than that there is faaar too much good rock to be playing only new or only classics. I'm guessing that copyright messed with that

[@tompatchak8706]

Don’t forget that one White Strips song.

[@tompatchak8706]

My buddy works in radio, and he says, even though Sandman is popular and played a lot already, with the new Metallica song and album announcements the higher ups in the company want it played even more.

[@BryanRobinson502]

When I first met my brother-in-law, he said "Oh, you like punk? Yea, I went to see Shinedown last night, so I get it."

[@arthurpatel8933]

A girl that worked for me one day was telling me how much she loved "real emo" and no one ever knew about her favorite bands. Me, being a music nerd, got super excited to talk about jazz june and joan of arc, then got really dissapointed when she started talking about how crazy the pit was when she went to see her favorite band: shinedown.

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Marry this woman! You should run away screaming from anybody that knows who the jazz june are

[@artaxAF]

Just chatted with a zoomer yesterday who claimed to be emo and said his favorite bands were Black Veil Brides and Evanescence, and was surprised I'm not a fan of Disturbed. It's so over.

[@yasserjamilq8]

Shinedown is actually a pretty good band. The lead singer is one of the best in modern rock music.

[@arthurpatel8933]

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA we got to be pretty cool. She was younger and would ask me a lot about my opinions on bands or random shit she saw on "alt tiktok". I dont know that anything has ever made me laugh so hard as having a 24 year old suburban girl who's favorite bands were shinedown and mcr ask me my opinion on 'lace code'.

[@yanikotavov385]

@@artaxAF Something wrond with Evanescence and Disturbed?

[@wyattsmith5372]

Our local rock radio is “new rock” and they play some of the best new bands like Aerosmith, Dio, and ACDC.

[@heybrowhatup]

🤣🤣

[@DragonKnightX12]

My local station finally started playing Core bands and supporting them when they come by around 2018.

[@garygorrent9917]

Dio? I would love that. Never heard a Dio or Black Sabbath (Dio Era) song on the radio. We just get paranoid, iron man and war pigs.

[@artaxAF]

I was listening to "Get Your Shine On" by Florida Georgia Line the other day and caught the lyric, "Shinedown on the radio dial." Apparently, that's who listens to Shinedown.

[@mrfathed3129]

The other day I listened to the radio in my truck for the first time in years. Outside of randomly throwing in Turnstile, it was literally the same exact songs the same station played 20-25 years ago. But I suppose that's alright. I hadn't heard Waffle by Sevendust in a long time.

[@Sheenoobie]

Dude waffle is an amazing song. Bitch as well

[@libtarded]

Waffle!!

[@lewisb85]

As someone who lives in the U.K. but has also lived in sf California, I have to say that we are spoiled with the BBC and their djs commitment to finding stuff outside of the regular playlist. The closest you have in the US is apple, I remember going to see my gfs family recently, I had zane Lowe on all the time because American corporate radio is painful, it’s like stuck in the early 00s.

[@elijahlanning1762]

Radio is definitely geared for older people in America. All of us younger people find music through the internet. Wish we had the BBC.

[@Vano-ey3pb]

The fact Finn talked about Gio and the Guns blows my mind. Once just a smaller young country band from Texas who evolved into a real badass rock band who is now on the radio being played next to bands like Korn. These guys deserve all that success! Met all of them more than a few times and seen them like 6 times lol so happy for those guys!!!

[@Betta66]

Great live band too

[@nicholasc.3928]

@@Betta66 saw them at Lollapalooza, they were great! They were actually on the stage a few sets before Lorna Shore. Wouldn't mind seeing them Giovannie and the Hired Guns again.

[@gabrielalvarez7046]

Shinedown’s “popularity” is a combo of mid to late 30s moms Spotify accounts and commuters just not changing the station when they come on the radio.

[@nu-metalfan2654]

Over here in the U.K. we have national radio stations, and you won’t get anything like this on U.K. radio. We do get local radio stations but local radio stations tend to just be talk radio, if you want to listen to music it’s mostly on national stations. The heaviest Rock station we have is called Kerrang, but they mostly play to the Emo and PoP Punk crowd, so if you want to pretend it’s 2008 then Kerrang is for you. We have stations called Radio X and Absolute that brand themselves as “Alternative stations” when they really are not, they mostly play British Indie PoP music, 80’s New Wave, and the odd Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Nirvana and Green Day song. So if you’re a British builder in your 40’s or 50’s, then Radio X and Absolute are for you to hear artists such as Jake Bugg, Sam Fender, and Lewis Capaldi, while getting paint on your radio. We have modern PoP and R&B stations a plenty, we also have a station called Heart that are for middle aged Mums/Moms that play both modern PoP and Retro PoP. And we have Boomer stations a plenty, including Magic and Greatest Hits that play Disco, Motown, and 80’s New Wave. So if you don’t like BritPoP, Indie PoP, 80’s New Wave, modern PoP and R&B, Disco, Motown, or even Emo or PoP Punk, then British isn’t for you nor me. So I find it funny you Yanks call Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Seether, Alter Bridge, as mainstream radio Rock when over here in the U.K. we get none of that on the radio. Boomers and Gen Xers in the U.K. are very nationalist when it comes to music, it’s got to be British music first to anyone born Pre 1985.

[@shona5512]

I think absolute radio markets themselves as a channel that doesn't repeat playlists and that's a good quality to have since we all know UK radio repeats the same shit 4-5 times a day

[@nu-metalfan2654]

@@shona5512 Oh Absolute repeat stuff all the time, it’s just day by day, and not hour by hour. So what song you will hear one day you will absolutely hear it again the following day.

[@alexhampton2802]

Oh man, totally, I mean 3 Days Grace are such an unknown in the UK for the most part, so crazy to see how popular they are in the US. we do also have Planet Rock, which honestly I do listen too from time to time as I grew up on Boomer rock and tbh, do like a lot of, but Kerrang Radio was the only time we kinda had a mainstream rock station here in the UK, I know its still on the Internet buy there's nowt anymore. God I have to listen to Heart (shudders, the Mom energy is too strong) and Greatest Hits at work (funnily enough, it's on the old Kerrang! Radio signal here in Brum, 105.2)

[@nu-metalfan2654]

@@alexhampton2802 Yeah Heart reeks of that middle age Mum at the hairdressers energy.. Absolute Radio is middle age man at the building site and getting paint everywhere energy.

[@benkendall5562]

Absolutely spot on dude hahaha, British radio is desperate, only for mums, young alcys/druggies and old former alcys/druggies who have a trade and a depression not acknowledged

[@Malum09]

Finn and his crusade against Dad/Butt Rock is always funny to watch.

[@matthewp9569]

The Noah Sebastian as a butt rock singer slander will not be tolerated. That dude is too talented to be lumped into that category!

[@BigOwl51]

Motionless in white are doing amazing things right now! They just had their first song ever to hit 100M on spotify (another life). For a metal band that’s insane and for a gothic metal band that’s even more insane. I’ve been a fan of them for ages and I’m loving the success!

[@seanstreck3226]

Radio rock was really important during the Butt Rock genesis of the 2000's. Many of us suburban white kids heard lamb of God, shinedown or three days grace during the morning show when our mom drove us to middle school in the minivan. Once bandwidth was appropriate for streaming and cheap enough for the average consumer, that was the death knell of radio rock.

[@dillonhayes3970]

“I imagine shinedown crushes in Iowa” made me laugh more then it should have

[@jarrettstork9883]

I was in Iowa one weekend last year when Shinedown was in town lol, wish I could've gone

[@evancameron1121]

Same😂

[@lukelyall5879]

They do though. Look up lazerfest

[@shona5512]

Shinedown is a band that if you were in the whole Call of Duty montage scene from 2010-2012 you probably listened to Shinedown quite a bit. I probably know every damn word of every damn song from The Sound of Madness album, and I'm not even a fan of them, I just know it from the shear amounts of editing I had to do to their songs because the CoD community fucking loved them

[@Pezturbator]

One of my friends absolutely ADORES Shinedown. Im a fan but i dont listen to them daily etc.

[@CQchaos7474]

Middle school was a wild time lol

[@future_elevator_music]

Being a years long consumer of Finn's videos and I don't think I've ever raised an eyebrow more at a sentence in one than him saying Bad Omens is a bit too "butt rock" for him. Perhaps they pulled one over on me but I have been listening to them a lot this year and I never once thought of them as Butt Rock.

[@Helluvabutl3r]

Me either, they’ve evolved a lot but their first two albums were quite a bit BMTH like so to hear him say that confused me

[@keegan7th]

New album is butt rock

[@joefuller9160]

No , it's but rock

[@loganpeters7543]

I will never not watch every video Finn puts out because there is always great commentary. Hilarious and insightful.

[@rarecandy3445]

FOZZY!!

[@handsolo6241]

He's a condescending dude for sure. He like that dude you grow up with who is really sure he better than anyone and his opinion is gold.

[@loganpeters7543]

@ghost mall yeah, he admits fault. He doesn't seem to have a huge ego.

[@derfgerps4016]

He posts the most Npc ass thoughts on music known to man. Finn is the archetype of the bare minimum in terms of music fandom.

[@TheSCOOT3R]

I dated a chick who absolutely loved shinedown, loved them so much she paid for a meet and greet at a show and cried when she met them. I broke up with her in 2013

[@yespls4184]

Good call

[@FoXHounDXD]

Its also an interesting point that falling in reverse only released 2 songs this year and both were hits.

[@Betta66]

Fun fact about Volbeat: Michael Poulsen’s first band was a death metal band called Dominus. One of their albums was called Vol.Beat

[@taylordawnxoxo]

have you listened to the first two Bad Omens records? If not I really think you should because they are the furthest thing from “butt rock”. The new album is nothing like their usual sound. They’ve hustled hard to get where they are and this album just got them the traction. I think it’s well deserved and they’ve proven this time around that they’re not a band that can be compared to another or boxed into one genre. It takes an unbelievable amount of talent to do that in my opinion. Would love to see you do a video covering some of their discography and history!

[@adamtaylor5274]

yeah calling Bad Omens butt rock tells me he hasn't listened to the album. There's lots of songs that could be The Weeknd

[@taylordawnxoxo]

@@adamtaylor5274 they definitely explored many different sounds on the new album but it’s not too distant from their usual sound. They flipped it in a way where their original fan base would love it but it would also appeal to those who might not like heavier music. I think they did a great job, it’s my top album of 2022 🤘🏻

[@kristopherlawrence6476]

They get compared to bmth so much, and I can see that for maybe 2 or 3 songs, but they definitely have their own style and sound that is not really comparable to anyone else.

[@yoanbertrand7926]

@@taylordawnxoxo greatttt album for real

[@kengray1663]

Seriously..calls bad omens "butt rock" but loves 5fdp😅😅

[@calebneff5777]

I realized a while ago that there’s no longer such thing as “local band energy”, it’s just hard rock culture. Rock is just cringe, it’s really that simple. Maybe it always was, maybe it’s a recent development, but the more you dig into it, the clear it becomes. Nita’s cover does look local, local stuff looks like Nita’s cover because rock culture is just really amateur and tactless.

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Harsh but true

[@jessea4438]

Rock Radio at night (I am talking LATE. Around 10:30 P.M. to around 4:00 A.M.) is actually pretty good. They played some Gojira and Killswitch Engage one time and I was surprised. I mean most of the bands (Gojira & Killswitch included) are a bit more mainstream than most of the bands in the genre, but it's still better than the typical shit that they play OVER & OVER again.

[@jessecovey1778]

I accidentally saw Highly Suspect. I went to a Zoso show on the wrong day. I went to get my Zoso ticket and the guy said “it’s Highly Suspect!!” I was like “WTF? You think I’m lying? Give me my Zoso tickets!” He said “No! The band tonight is Highly Suspect! Here….” He handed me free tickets!

[@johnh5424]

There's a video of Jack White building a guitar out of a piece of wood and other junk. He's a legit carpenter

[@johnparrish5681]

Highly Suspect is what gave me hope in newer music a few years ago

[@Lilah-Violet]

The only person I've ever met who admitted to liking Shinedown was my ex mother in law. 🤣 Explains a lot lmao

[@alexschneider8494]

I liked old Shinedown and their new album is actually pretty good. They went full on shit for like a decade though.

[@IntoTheVerticalBlank]

And Beato! (he produced on of their hit songs years ago)

[@iliketohearmenmoaning]

Shinedown has a lot of good songs but I only know their singles, I've never listened to a full album yet

[@Lilah-Violet]

@ghost mall She was also obsessed with Alter Bridge and every single 80s hair/glam metal band. 🤣🤣🤣

[@MySkilletfan]

@@iliketohearmenmoaning same

[@ianbraun271]

To be fair, 95% ish of this list is played on rock radio in upstate NY. Also surprised, no Badflower, Starset or Breaking Benjamin on the list.

[@BerkkyTV]

Shinedown was the first band I was really into between 8-13, they were the first concert I ever went to

[@cotlotiop1235]

Legit same. It was them with Sevendust and Breaking Benjamin

[@wolfhawk1999]

Dorothy is fantastic. Amazing live show as well. I really like them a lot. Highly recommended. Singer also seems like a really nice person

[@agra33457]

She is a lovely person. I met her a couple times at smaller shows a couple of years back. Very genuine. Very kind.

[@richarizard526]

Yeah she's dope. I saw her earlier this year, ironically with shinedown

[@jasondorst13]

I always thought of Volbeat as sounding like River Runs Red era Caputo singing over the Black album. It actually works really well.

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Great way to put it! I kind of love them

[@alex_flamer]

Volbeat is heavily influenced by Elvis Presley and Rockabilly music. It's apparent in the some of the riffs and the vocals. However, they're also influenced by Power Metal which is huge in Europe (they're from Denmark.)

[@Robert048]

First thing I thought when I first heard them.

[@JonnyRottenn__]

@@alex_flamer Their singer also sounds like he’s influenced by Metallica with the amount of words that end with an unnecessary “hyah”

[@kronabus199a]

@@JonnyRottenn__ someone pointed out to me that the lead singer sounds like late 90s/early 2000s Cher, and I can’t unhear it now. I still love the band though, so yeah.

[@ryanbollinger1759]

Bad Omens is genuinely one of the best bands in Metalcore right now. I absolutely love them. Behind Pain Remains, The Death of Peace of Mind is my album of the year.

[@shane_wallace]

TDOPOM is a good album no doubt, and I absolutely see why it’s people’s AOTY, but it is objectively not a metalcore album Edit: spelling

[@keegan7th]

They're a boy band with breakdowns

[@alanaball5985]

those are by far my top two albums too

[@FaceTheSlayer954]

Down in South Florida, all we have is an alternative station whose hardest music is Imagine Dragons, and Classic Rock station that is now adding early 2000s rock to the usual Floyd, Zep and GnR records. I haven't heard a single song on this list in radio...

[@slapbass8723]

Shinedowns is big for rock communities in the UK and Europe

[@blakegiles78]

Bad Omens would be worth doing a video about if you give that a listen. Highly Suspect is interesting too, more so their older music imo.

[@crazymadd669]

This list is painfully true. Living in a small town in Alaska, this stuff is played ALL THE TIME. and then they throw in a bunch of hair metal and 90s alt rock.

[@fw4342]

Volbeat started in 2001. 10 years before slash featuring Myles Kennedy

[@doomztay]

Love shinedown. My wife and I used "I'll follow you" at our wedding for our dance lolol we live in georgia and majority of the ppl I know listen to shinedown and like them. Maybe it's a Midwest and east coast thing

[@godithdadrag]

Volbeat sounds like drunk Elvis mixed with 2001 Disturbed

[@gregmarx4719]

I've heard of Volbeat described as Elvis Metal. I'm in Michigan and listen to Shinedown all the time

[@jesterr7133]

I was never a huge fan of Papa Roach's music, but I actually got to hang out and party with them in 2008. I actually watched a UFC fight with Jacoby on their tour bus. They are some really cool guys. They acted like normal people, and it was like we had known each other for years. I have met, played with, partied with, or hung out with a ton of well known artists over the years, and they are the nicest and most genuine ones that I have met so far.They made me a fan just by being some cool ass dudes.

[@AlligatorArms]

I’m a total junkie when it comes to radio charts…yeah it doesn’t mean what it used to, but it’s interesting to me anyway. This list is exclusively Active Rock radio. The target demographic for Active Rock on FM radio is middle aged men who grew up on Alternative radio when Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, and the Disturbed were core artists, and hit the “Haha” reaction to any story on social media that is about Imagine Dragons, twenty one pilots, or MGK. They are set upon their ways for sure, and while I agree this list isn’t terrible, these are just 2021-2022 songs. I guarantee you their actual most played songs mostly came from the 90’s or 2000’s. They spend so little time playing actual current music. That’s my problem with “rock” radio, but I guess that’s just what the listeners want to hear.

[@austintrousdale2397]

That’s pretty much what I thought. You hear a song by Ghost or I Prevail on my local rock station, then you’re almost guaranteed to hear Skynyrd, 70s or 80s AC/DC, or even hair metal immediately following, almost as a sonic mea culpa to the older Gen Xer’s who might have been listening and considered changing the station. 😖

[@lttledreamer]

the shinedown thing is a mystery to me too. i once saw them live because i wanted to see their opener (the pretty reckless) and i was shocked at how many hardcore shinedown fans there were. i was in my hometown of greenville, SC so maybe that’s why

[@mcshootydotjpeg]

Don't know if anybody elae pointed it out, but Volbeat's current singer and founding bassist used to be in a Death Metal band called Dominus. Their name comes from Dominus's 3rd album.

[@MetalJohnBaylor]

I knew that.

[@THE-RED-LETTER-PROJECT]

My local FM. is on a weird Candlebox/Spindocters thing . I listen to fm while at a stoplight online finding whatever the fck i really want to hear.

[@xenos_n.]

Here in Maine there is a radio station called WTOS and in the 90's they played all the latest alternative rock, it was pretty damn good for a radio station. I hadn't heard it for probably decades until one day not long ago and I was interested to hear what they were playing. It was the exact same stuff they were playing back then. The radio station was frozen in time. It was really depressing to hear.

[@bucknasty69]

We’ve got a station like that here in San Antonio as well (99.5 KISS). They play all the same shit from the 90s. It sucks lol

[@shortty7618]

We have a station like that in Virginia that plays nothing but Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Crossfade, 3 Doors Down, and some Three Days Grace! Lol

[@jessecovey1778]

Jack White makes guitar pedals, too.

[@myemodiaries901]

I think you see a lot of older bands, because there aren't that many exciting new rock acts. I think Kenny Hoopla deserves way more attention though and imo, he's the most exciting thing to happen to rock in a while

[@mindseye1234567]

This!!!!

[@MW-dd8vk]

There’s plenty of great new rock bands out now the problem is that the majority don’t get enough attention from the mainstream. The Genre has reverted back to its underground roots however with the Internet it’s become much easier for upcoming bands to garner some success

[@pancakeburglar9361]

Rock radio is unfortunately still mostly stuck in 2003. I was happy to see my local butt rock station play Turnstile, Bad Omens and Wage War on occasion but it’s mostly still bland ass butt rock and at least one Linkin Park song per hour unfortunately.

[@dontyouworryaboutit_]

I would be fucking lit if I heard Wage War on 102.9 lol

[@TheVillanz93]

Highly Suspect is quite the interesting band. I called them "Degenerate Rock", as they had a very bluesy sound and their subject matter was mostly depression, apathy, some dug use, etc. Almost like the rock comparison of Lil' Peep. They've evolved their sound to incorporate hip-hop, rap, alternative, and other genres now. Anything off the first two albums is great, but they do have some other good stuff across their catalog.

[@PM-vv3uc]

Unfortunately their new album sucks.

[@chuckbunting9731]

Yah , Finn you need to dive into Highly Suspect more. They were nominated for a Grammy and have a pretty unique cool sound. Back in 2016 they were one of the bands keeping mainstream Rock alive and interesting.

[@nicholasbrown7000]

Not me seeing Shinedown twice in Toledo because they played with Papa Roach and Asking Alexandria. 🤓

[@MrGmoyer60]

The Bad Omens tour was incredible.

[@collinqs2541]

When I went to Rockville in Florida last year (I live here), I saw a ton of people rocking Shinedown shirts. In high school I knew kids who liked Shinedown. I think they get played on the radio probably. I have no clue but the Shinedown fans do exist

[@iambodybuildingyt221]

Finn: I guess the radio plays nothing but butt rock and metalcore that sounds like butt rock I don't get it! The radio: ON THIS STATION WE PLAY NOTHING BUT ROCK!

[@between2guitars331]

I wish people would finally admit that my generation never stopped listening to rock. We never stopped going to shows, which is a big reason why Danny Wimmer festivals have gotten so huge. We actually still buy music! Physical product too! Gen X is driving a lot of this. Why do you think the price of vinyl has been skyrocketing? Dorothy is kind of a heavy Allanah Miles and very good live.Saw em with Dirty Honey

[@gregfender]

Volbeat = Rockabilly Metal with James Hetfield and Glenn Danzig's love-child on vocals. I say this with the utmost respect.

[@DrTabarnak]

I have a coworker that said his favorite band was Shinedown. I had no idea that would be the band he'd tell me was his favorite lol.

[@shocken90]

I disagree with saying that radio isn't important. It definitely isn't as important as it used to be for sure, but it is important for up and coming artists to break into the mainstream. Once everyone knows your name, it doesn't matter what songs you produce... you'll be on the late night talk shows and you'll have massive success. The problem is that modern rock stations do not play what the youth want to listen to and the youth demographic is the only demographic that matters in music.

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

I don't think it is, though. TikTok breaks artists - what artists have been broken by radio in the last 15 years?

[@shocken90]

Yo thanks Finn for the comment! Love your channel! The youth demo is critically important therefore tik tok and social media is def more important to initially break an artist. However! Imo, radio djs can def reach out to a more established, older audience. Along with that audience comes tabloids, celeb gossip magazines ect. With that comes national name recognition. Artists should prioritize to break out on social first, but breaking out on radio can really give an artist that career defining jump bc of the other forms of media and industry attention that is comes along with it.

[@DragonKnightX12]

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA Octane pushed a lot of them up. Jelly Roll, ADTR, INK, MIW, FIR, Beartooth, BMTH, Nothing More, I Prevail..etc I've seen a lot of older people showing up to their shows now.

[@lorigoshert6667]

So few women on rock radio these days. There were so many more in the '90s. Even our local radio station that plays '90s alternative (along with a huge amount of butt rock and nu metal) never plays any Hole, Breeders, Alanis Morissette, etc. The only time I've heard a female singer on that station is "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence, and it still has that ridiculous male rap part.

[@nickboxer7147]

Radio is honestly such a strange platform compared to streaming. In Portland, it's like 40% Christian stuff (not even music), 40% Mexican music, an Indy station and like 2 or 3 classic rock stations playing the same songs. Almost nothing like Finn mentioned.

[@MusiciansIgnite]

Dude I’ve met TONS of people who love Shinedown. It think it’s just not popular outside the circle of people who like radio-friendly hard rock

[@MusiciansIgnite]

Now I totally agree with Pop Evil, never met anyone who recreationally listens to them

[@pyromaniarules]

Shinedown and pop evil are fairly big in the Midwest/heartland. And I'm surprised to not see more buttrock on the list

[@TheChadster789]

I'm one of those Shinedown fans. There's a lot of us in Wisconsin. lol

[@Luissv72]

I'm so excited to see Dorothy, a rock artist that has only been around for 6 years making it that high on the radio list

[@Corvoattano13]

"I mean they're ugly as shit, but good for him!" got me good

[@SJPace1776]

My local rock station top acts for 2022 would be 1. Metallica 2. ACDC 3. Guns n Roses 4. Ozzy This list would be a breath of fresh air even if it has its issues. Thank goodness for Spotify.

[@darktower0603]

You're in the Midwest. I'm guessing Oklahoma!!! That's exactly what our stations play

[@midnightchaseproject]

In my experience, I think nowadays rock radio is for older, working-class people who just need something playing in their trucks, cabs, or in the shop. If they started playing other music im sure they would get complaints from the more conservative people. It is also bad here in Ontario, they exclusively use the Hip and that song "Go For A Soda" because they literally cant think of anything else to fill the Cancon quota. If the DJ is really adventurous you might even hear In Too Deep by Sum-41. On one hand, I totally support the working-class, on the other, I wish more newer bands could get a fair chance without just making click-baity songs about cancel culture or having "bought a sawed off shotgun."

[@NickJardine]

That Mammoth WVH debut album is excellent. No skips. Amazing compositions, attention to melody. Love it. The Slash record is great too.

[@nickdotjpg]

Mammoth WVH is 100% the next big thing in mainstream rock. They're too good not to be.

[@Exile29]

Thumbnail/headline: it’s worse than I thought Finn in the video: this is actually better than I thought it would be…

[@jeffthejinjer]

I'm glad he didn't bash Ozzy, his new album is great and I love his collabs with old school guitarists! I grew up in the 80s and he was a go to when times were tough for a lot of kids back then.

[@GeekGameCulture]

Glad he didn't either, seeing what his opinion usually is around older acts.

[@TheKalaxis]

Great shout on Fozzy. Went to see them live last year and they (and Stitched up heart, their first warm up band) were awesome

[@TERMINATOR101-b8j]

I like a couple of shinedown tunes, but I can't honestly say I like a whole album.

[@coreyw5981]

Not even leave a whisper or whatever that first album was with 45 on it? That one was so damn good

[@alex_flamer]

That's kinda how it is with almost every rock radio darling band. They're all singles acts, but almost none of them have ever made an album that is truly amazing. Or if they did, it was around the time when they first broke out.

[@TERMINATOR101-b8j]

@@coreyw5981 ok, that was a pretty good album, but i havent listened to it end to end since it was first released.

[@Interestingenough4]

Their third album I thought was solid from start to finish. That said, Shinedown is like bands such as 3 Doors Down and Papa Roach in that way: they almost always have a few killer tunes per album, but usually all you need to hear is those killer singles.

[@mickeymaxxwell3065]

I live in San Antonio and our rock station don’t play like any of these new songs, nothing after 2010

[@bucknasty69]

99.5 sucks so damn hard lol. How a big city like San Antonio doesn’t have a decent rock station blows my mind.

[@ericnay7733]

What shocks me about all of this.. is that not one spot was taken by Breaking Benjamin. If you turn on the radio for more than 20 minutes here in Houston you’ll hear them.

[@richarizard526]

They haven't dropped a new album while basically all of this stuff was released within the last two years.

[@deansample3690]

I have an older vehicle so I listen to the radio fairly often. I’ve never heard any of these songs on the radio other than these terrible shindown, three days grace and RHCP songs. The rest is all songs from the 90’s and early 2000’s. I’m really surprised by this list.

[@Chill-mm4pn]

The kids listen to those older rock bands along with the newer stuff. The number 1 song could have been Ghost - Mary On A Cross since all the young alternative kids would be constantly tuning in for that song. And thus discovering new bands. Just saying, whatever Rock is popular on tiktok, the radio station needs to be adding that in the playlist to bring in the youth.

[@lethybridtheorygolucastheo2191]

"Chill86" Metal is also popular aside from Rock when it comes to the internet. In fact, Metal is more popular as of recent mostly due to reaction channels and youtubers such as Nik Nocturnal, Jared Dines and Steve Terreberry

[@noahcolegio7124]

Knew a girl once... and she liked shinedown + three days grace. I imagine she liked 5FDP, and one time she called me to talk and I was listening to the Chariot in the background, so I paused it out if due respect. She said "what was that in the back? " I said "oh, nothing just a cool Christian mathcore band. You'd probably hate them" "you don't know what I'd like.. anyway I'll call you back" she said in response. About a hour later at about 1140pm on a weekend she called me and sang "hey there Delilah" in entirety including the melodies over the phone, then said "bye, my dad might ground me now, but it was worth it"

[@agonzalez7095]

bro what???

[@Chill-mm4pn]

Black Metal would have done you well in that house.😂

[@noahcolegio7124]

@@Chill-mm4pn hmmmm, Black metal? Noooo, I'm sorry, I'm not friends with any girl by that name. You must have me confused for someone else who has been here before.

[@ZL1LoVeR]

For Shinedown Us and Them is a fantastic album! So is Leave A Whisper… I haven’t seen to any of their newer stuff. Brent Smith has an incredible voice and those two albums are worth checking out

[@GeekGameCulture]

Shinedown's latest is taking some chances by getting into cancel culture and persecuting anyone with even a slight bit of an opposing opinion, regardless of side. Their title track off of it was their response to the debate about the COVID 19 vaccine. America Burning seems to be the hands down favorite track off of it. That's why people are talking about them right now. They seem to be too big to cancel and are unafraid to bring up scary topics the way they are.

[@Devast8ter]

Congrats on the 100k, my buddy your UPS driver sent me over here lol

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Lol! Amazing

[@rawfodog49]

I’d love to hear Finn interview Jose Mangin to talk about music culture and where radio fits.

[@itsjustme1616]

I even have SiriusXM and the Octane channel is painfully repetitive sometimes. So it’s not just “regular” radio that is overplaying these bands/songs. I’ve had to switch to Liquid Metal to get more variety, and I don’t like the music they play as much.

[@sickofitall8486]

Once I finished my food service career in the early 2000s upon graduating from college, I also was no longer exposed to radio outside of a few public events or shopping (Christmas music). Can't say I miss it.

[@ozzyfernandez8228]

Volbeat is not 10 years old. They formed in 2001. I remember hearing their stuff in 2010 or 2011, which maybe that's where this 10 years thing is coming from, but they had like 3 albums out before Fallen, and A Warrior's Call started to play on the radio.

[@Miniduck9013]

Shinedown is still my favorite band ever they are who got me into this whole thing and I think that are a very “advanced” butt rock band

[@BranniganCarter]

Volbeat: Industrial Rockabilly

[@miltonbuu]

Lol 😆

[@JhamEntertainment]

Kinda amazes me IPrevail and Bad Omens weren’t higher. Just because they both had such huge years and it’s quality hard rock with pretty amazing vocals. But again, of course Three Days Grace is 1.

[@alex_flamer]

Three Days Grace is number 1 because they're the safe and most generic choice who haven't been interesting in about 20 years. Only old people care about them, and only for said old material.

[@DragonKnightX12]

@@alex_flamer TDG I feel would be a younger audience. They were of the rock bands that were big with Emo kids.

[@Argonhubert]

@@DragonKnightX12 peaked with older millennials . I guess that would be close to middle aged now?

[@DragonKnightX12]

@@Argonhubert Nah as a older Gen Z, I can confirm that Zoomers are into TDG. We were the butt end of the Emo/Scene kid thing, and pretty much everyone I knew into the scene liked TDG.

[@lancemcfarlin311]

Giovanni and the Hired Guns have been a touring Texas Country band for years and years and just started doing rock music. They are from the town I live in.

[@alexschneider8494]

Shinedown’s first three albums were pretty good. You definitely know the song, “Second Chance” though Finn. Their first few albums all had a different sound. The fourth album was very produced sounding, but still wasn’t full pop. They went full on poppy for like a decade though, unfortunately. Their newest album however is actually kind of heavy lol there is fucking sweep picking and chugging on that album. Sweep picking.. in a butt rock band. Nuts.

[@tlgkevin4431]

I have a Shinedown tattoo on my arm. We're very quiet out in public but we're EVERYWHERE online. Can confirm

[@toddcontino7271]

RHCP are my favorite band…they haven’t been awful for years. They’ve been changing with the times while maintaining they’re “funk” the last two albums have been amazing and really have a lot of their old school sound

[@connorpeppermint8635]

I'm in south Michigan and shinedown has a following here. As a non fan I think their appeal comes from the average Joe, you'd have a a beer with them vibe. They have an edginess that's comparitvely not as corny as their peers but still family friendly. Also catchy songs. A few I would tap my toes to.

[@cabooseabs6864]

Radio partly did this to themselves by having these extremely limited playlists.

[@joshuaholman7760]

I've heard a few even say that they can't play more, varied type of rock music because of the Playlist they are told to adhered too, and playing non Playlist songs results in upper management coming down on them hard.

[@jmckenzie962]

Here in Wellington, New Zealand there's a radio station called RadioActive that will play almost anything. I've heard everything from shoegaze to old reggae hits on that station.

[@chernobylcoleslaw6698]

Wow radio I might actually listen to

[@wiredwrong8828]

I listened to the radio for the first time in years and for 3/4 hours it was mostly the same songs over and over, at least once or twice each hour

[@ibanezguitars360]

What rock radio stations are playing all this because my local rock radio stations (only listen at work) all only play everything you feared the list was gonna be. Also I love Shinedown. The newest album was the best thing they have done in 10 years. Got away from the “imagine dragons-core”😂 and yes, I live in Ohio

[@slowboy1236]

I’ve been saying that Rock/ Metal is slowly but surely surging back into mainstream and pop culture and it started around 2019 or so. Seeing bands like I Prevail, BMTH and Bad Omens getting bigger by the week it seems like is really starting to reinforce that point. As far as TDG and shine down having huge numbers I think it’s cause of the radio DJ’s pushing those bands and many others which inflates the numbers. They’re not as big as they seem.

[@calebneff5777]

I’m not surprised old bands hold on to radio, because old people listen to the radio. Nobody under 30 has voluntarily turned on a radio in their entire life, ever. Radio listeners are exclusively over 30, and most are over 45. It’s more surprising that they’ve accepted some of these newer bands than anything to me.

[@dougk359]

Shinedown and Three Days Grace are both excellent bands with really good singers.

[@celesticeyes]

both current albums arent their best but its good music for sure