Top 10 Countdown: January 28, 2017

10. You Me At Six - Swear
Last week: 10.


9. As It Is - Pretty Little Distance
Last week: 5.


8. Pierce The Veil - Dive In
Last week: 9.


7. Courage My Love - Stereo
Last week: NEW!


6. The Menzingers - Lookers
Last week: 8.


5. The Summer Set - The Night Is Young
Last week 6.


4. Knuckle Puck - Evergreen
Last week: 2.


3. State Champs - Losing Myself
Last week: 4.


2. Seaway - Slam
Last week: 1.


1. Real Friends - Mess
Last week: 3.

Special: 2016 In Review: Best Movies of 2016

77. Blair Witch (1/5)

76. The Witch (1/5)

75. Zoolander 2 (2/5)

74. Warcraft (2/5)

73. Nine Lives (2/5)

72. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (3/5)

71. Independence Day: Resurgence (3/5)

70. Elvis & Nixon (3/5)

69. The Finest Hours (3/5)

68. The Boss (3/5)

67. Howard Lovecraft And The Frozen Kingdom (3/5)

66. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (3/5)

65. Where To Invade Next? (3/5)

64. Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates (3/5)

63. The Boy (3/5)

62. Pete's Dragon (3/5)

61. Barbershop: The Next Cut (3/5)

60. The Huntsman: Winter's War (3/5)

59. The BFG (3/5)

58. Swiss Army Man (3/5)

57. 10 Cloverfield Lane (3/5)

56. Bad Moms (3/5)

55. Ratchet & Clank (3/5)

54. London Has Fallen (3/5)

53. Ouija: Origin Of Evil (3/5)

52. The Infiltrator (3/5)

51. Sausage Party (3/5)

50. Demolition (3/5)

49. Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising (3/5)

48. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi (3/5)

47. Ghostbusters (3/5)

46. Everybody Wants Some!!! (3/5)

45. Pride And Prejudice And Zombies (3/5)

44. Keanu (3/5)

43. Angry Birds Movie (3/5)

42. Triple 9 (3/5)

41. War Dogs (3/5)

40. To Hell Or High Water (3/5)

39. Lights Out (3/5)

38. Snowden (3/5)

37. Yoga Hosers (3/5)

36. Sully (3/5)

35. Nerve (3/5)

34. Digimon Adventure Tri: Chapter 1: Reunion (4/5)

33. Doctor Strange (4/5)

32. Batman: Bad Blood (4/5)

31. The Accountant (4/5)

30. The Conjuring 2 (4/5)

29. Sing (4/5)

28. Fastball (4/5)

27. Don't Breathe (4/5)

26. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (4/5)

25. Alice Through The Looking Glass (4/5)

24. X-Men: Apocalypse (4/5)

23. Finding Dory (4/5)

22. Jason Bourne (4/5)

21. Central Intelligence (4/5)

20. The Secret Life Of Pets (4/5)

19. The Nice Guys (4/5)

18. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows (4/5)

17. Moana (4/5)

16. Justice League Vs. Teen Titans (4/5)

15. Popstar: Never Stop, Never Stopping (4/5)

14. The Jungle Book (4/5)

13. Green Room (4/5)

12. Zootopia (4/5)

11. The Purge: Election Year (5/5)

10. Batman: The Killing Joke (5/5)

9. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (5/5)

8. Now You See Me 2 (5/5)

7. Suicide Squad (5/5)

6. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (5/5)

5. The Magnificent Seven (5/5)

4. Captain America: Civil War (5/5)

3. Deadpool (5/5)

2. Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn Of Justice (5/5)

1. Kubo And The Two Strings (5/5)

Special: 2016 In Review: Best Albums of 2016

Hey everyone, hope you all enjoyed my top 100 songs of 2016 over the last 2 weeks or so. If you missed any of it the countdown starts HERE. We're keeping with the music theme with my favourite albums in 2016 this week. Now albums are hard for me to rank as usually it's completely dependent on how I'm feeling so I decided to use tiers this year so let's look at my favourites of 2016.

Top 4:

With Confidence - Better Weather

Record Label: Hopeless Records

Choice Cuts: We'll Be Okay, Voldemort, Keeper, Higher

Why: A great summer album. With Con, from Australia, know how to write a chorus and an album full of hooks. With Confidence writes about everything from girls, to struggling with mental health problems, and every song oozes pop-punk that demands to be played in the summer with your windows down. Ladies and gentlemen, your new favourite Pop-Punk band.

Yellowcard - Self-titled

Record Label: Hopeless Records

Choice Cuts: Rest In Peace, Got Yours, The Hurt Is Gone, Empty Street

Why: From a great summer album to the band that's career was launched off the success of arguable the greatest summer album ever made, Ocean Avenue. Now Yellowcard has released 6 albums since then and although none will likely be as memorable as OA, every one has helped Yellowcard mature and us listeners mature alongside of them. This is the end of Yellowcard and that band pulls no punches saying goodbye as every song is as fitting of a farewell as the next and the albums lead single/first track Rest In Peace, lets you know that's what you're in for. A moment of silence now as this will be the last time I ever write about Yellowcard for a year in review series...

Good Charlotte - Youth Authority

Record Label: MDDN

Choice Cuts: 40 oz. Dream, Makeshift Love, Keep Swingin', Life Changes

Why: Good Charlotte has never been a band that settles for being complacent, they're often challenging themselves but after 2010's Cardiology it seems they ran out of challenges and went on hiatus. They decided to reemerge this year with one of their best albums Youth Authority, the high points are constant, and the only real misses are the ballads which GC has never really excelled at, even then tracks like "Life Can't Get Much Better" are probably stronger than their former ballads.

The Summer Set - Stories For Monday

Record Label: Fearless Records

Choice Cuts: Missin' You, Figure Me Out, The Night Is Young, Wasted

Why: We finally got a follow up to 2013's Legendary (my favourite album that year BTW) this year with Stories For Monday. It's not the perfect pop record it's predecessor was, but Stories certainly holds it's own charm. Where Legendary focused on having a good time in the present, Stories dealt with a tumultuous time for the band that almost seen them calling it quits leading to a variety of songs about growing up and moving on (The Night Is Young, Wasted among them).

Second-Tier Classics

Real Friends - The Home Inside My Head

Choice Cuts: Mess, Colder Quicker

Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3

Choice Cuts: Talk To Me, Legend Has It

Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues

Choice Cuts: Sure And Certain, Get Right

blink-182 - California

Choice Cuts: She's Out Of Her Mind, Rabbit Hole

A Day To Remember - Bad Vibrations

Choice Cuts: Naivety, Bullfight

Like Pacific - Distant Like You Asked

Choice Cuts: Richmond, Distant

Relient K - Air For Free

Choice Cuts: Man, Air For Free

Bayside - Vacancy

Choice Cuts: I've Been Dead All Day, Not As Depressing As It Sounds

Against The Current - In Our Bones

Choice Cuts: Young And Relentless, In Our Bones

Rarity - I Couldn't Be Weaker

Choice Cuts: Absent, Hollow

Simple Plan - Taking One For The Team

Choice Cuts: Boom!, Opinion Overload

Roam - Backbone

Choice Cuts: Headrush, Hopeless Case

Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave

Choice Cuts: Tidal Wave, You Can't Look Back

Sum 41 - 13 Voices

Choice Cuts: War, Fake My Own Death

Pierce The Veil - Misadventures

Choice Cuts: Circles, The Divine Zero

Set It Off - Upside Down

Choice Cuts: Something New, Uncontainable

Other Favourites

River Oaks - Self-Titled EP

The Starting Line - Anyways EP

Sleeping With Sirens - Live And Unplugged

The Ready Set - I Will Be Nothing Without Your Love

A Loss For Words - Crises

Hands Like Houses - Dissonants

Panic! At The Disco - Death Of A Bachelor

Green Day - Revolution Radio

Hit The Lights - Just To Get Through To You EP

Tonight Alive - Limitless

Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost

All Time Low - Straight To DVD II: Past, Present & Future Hearts

Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties - Bittersweet

Top 10 Countdown: January 21, 2017

10. You Me At Six - Swear
Last week: NEW!


9. Pierce The Veil - Dive In
Last week: 10.


8. The Menzingers - Lookers
Last week: NEW!


7. A Loss For Words - Existential Crisis At The Flash 'n Flagon
Last week: 7.


6. The Summer Set - The Night Is Young
Last week: 6.


5. As It It - Pretty Little Distance
Last week: 1.


4. State Champs - Losing Myself
Last week: 5.


3. Real Friends - Mess
Last week: 4.


2. Knuckle Puck - Evergreen
Last week: 2.


1. Seaway - Slam
Last week: 3.

Top 10 Countdown: January 14, 2017

10. Pierce The Veil - Dive In
Last week: NEW!


9. Jimmy Eat World - Sure And Certain
Last week: 9.


8. The Story So Far - Nerve
Last week: 2.


7. A Loss For Words - Existential Crisis At The Flask 'n Flagon
Last week: 8.


6. The Summer Set - The Night Is Young
Last week: 7.


5. State Champs - Losing Myself
Last week: 6.


4. Real Friends - Mess
Last week: 5.


3. Seaway - Slam
Last week: 4.


2. Knuckle Puck - Evergreen
Last week: 3.


1. As It Is - Pretty Little Distance
Last week: 1.

Special: 2016 In Review: 100 Best Songs of 2016 Part 10 (10 - 1)

PREVIOUS

10. Real Friends - Mess


9. The Summer Set - Missin' You


8. Good Charlotte - 40 oz. Dream


7. Knuckle Puck - Pretense


6. Handguns - Recovery


5. State Champs - Losing Myself


4. With Confidence - We'll Be Okay


3. Against The Current - Young & Relentless


2. As It Is - Pretty Little Distance


1. Neck Deep Ft. Mark Hoppus - December (Again)

Special: 2016 In Review: 100 Best Songs of 2016 Part 9 (20 - 11)

PREVIOUS

20. Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! - Set It Straight


19. Set It Off - Something New


18. Hedley - Can't Slow Down


17. River Oaks - Let You Down


16. Broadside - The Simple Type


15. The Story So Far - Heavy Gloom


14. Like Pacific - Richmond


13. Yellowcard - Rest In Piece


12. With Confidence - London Lights


11. Seaway - Stubborn Love


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Special: 2016 In Review: 100 Best Songs of 2016 Part 8 (30 - 21)

PREVIOUS

30. As It Is - Winter's Weather


29. We Came As Romans - Memories


28. Neck Deep - Smooth Seas Don't Make Good Sailors


27. Set It Off - Duality


26. Seaway - Slam


25. Silverstein - The Continual Condition


24. Hit The Lights - No Filter


23. Simple Plan - Opinion Overload


22. Pierce The Veil - Circles


21. With Confidence - Voldemort


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Special: 2016 In Review: 100 Best Songs of 2016 Part 7 (40 - 31)

PREVIOUS

40. The Maine - Am I Pretty?


39. The Wonder Years Ft. Jason Butler - Stained Glass Ceilings


38. The Story So Far - Nerve


37. Sleeping With Sirens - Gold


36. The Ready Set - Disappearing Act


35. blink-182 - She's Out Of Her Mind


34. A Day To Remember - Nativity


33. With Confidence - Keeper


32. Good Charlotte - Life Changes


31. The Summer Set - Figure Me Out


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Top 10 Countdown: January 7, 2017

10. Good Charlotte - Life Changes
Last week: 5.


9. Jimmy Eat World - Sure And Certain
Last week: 10.


8. A Loss For Words - Existensial Crisis At The Flask 'n Flagon
Last week: NEW!


7. The Summer Set - The Night Is Young
Last week: 9.


6. State Champs - Losing Myself
Last week: 8.


5. Real Friends - Mess
Last week: 6.


4. Seaway - Slam
Last week: 4.


3. Knuckle Puck - Evergreen
Last week: 3.


2. The Story So Far - Nerve
Last week: 2.


1. As It Is - Pretty Little Distance
Last week: 1.

Special: 2016 In Review: 100 Best Songs of 2016 Part 6 (50 - 41)

PREVIOUS

50. blink-182 - Bored To Death


49. Like Pacific - Distant


48. Neck Deep - Kali Ma


47. Taking Back Sunday - You Can't Look Back


46. Marianas Trench - This Means War


45. Head Injuries - Fake


44. Pvris - Ghosts/Let Them In


43. A Day To Remember - Bullfight


42. Sum 41 - Fake My Own Death


41. Knuckle Puck - Evergreen


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Special: 2016 In Review: 100 Best Songs of 2016 Part 5 (60 - 51)

PREVIOUS

60. Against The Current - Running With The Wild Things


59. Rarity - Inhale


58. Sum 41 - War


57. Set It Off - Uncontainable


56. The Summer Set - The Night Is Young


55. Hands Like Houses - Colourblind


54. Silverstein - Toronto (Unabridged)


53. Four Year Strong - Who Cares?


52. Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness - Fire Escape


51. A Day To Remember - Paranoia


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Special: 2016 In Review: 100 Best Songs in 2016 Part 4 (70 - 61)

PREVIOUS

70. Mariana's Trench - Who Do You Love?


69. A Day To Remember - Bad Vibrations


68. Simple Plan - Singing In The Rain


67. With Confidence - I Will Never Wait


66. Yellowcard - The Hurt Is Gone


65. The Starting Line - Anyways


64. Panic! At The Disco - Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time


63. Silverstein - Ghost


62. Real Friends - Scared To Be Alone


61. Bayside - I've Been Dead All Day


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Special: 2016 In Review: 100 Best Songs of 2016 Part 3 (80 - 71)

PREVIOUS

80. Jimmy Eat World - Sure And Certain


79. Green Day - Bang Bang


78. One Direction - History


77. Mayday Parade - Let's Be Honest


76. Good Charlotte - Life Can't Get Much Better


75. The Menzingers - Bad Catholics


74. Sum 41 - God Save Us All (Death To Pop)


73. All Time Low - Take Cover


72. The Maine - Another Night On Mars


71. Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave


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Special: 2016 In Review: 100 Best Songs of 2016 Part 2 (90 - 81)

PREVIOUS

90. A Loss For Words – Existential Crisis At The Flask 'n Flagon


89. Taylor Swift - New Romantics


88. Pierce The Veil - Dive In


87. Pvris - Mirrors


86. Forever Came Calling - Wish You Well


85. With Confidence - Take Me Away


84. Against The Current - Wasteland


83. Rarity - Stranger


82. Hands Like Houses - Degrees Of Separation


81. Neck Deep Ft. Chris Carrabba - December


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Special: 2016 In Review: 100 Best Songs of 2016 Part 1 (100 - 91)

100. The Early November - Narrow Mouth


99. Carousel Kings - Bad Habit


98. All Time Low - Missing You


97. Simple Plan - Perfectly Perfect


96. Patent Pending - Six Feet


95. Green Day - Still Breathing


94. Panic! At The Disco - LA Devotee


93. You Me At Six - Swear


92. I The Mighty - Slow Dancing Forever


91. The Menzingers - Lookers


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