Hi everyone, and welcome to another one of my Mixtapes. If you're not sure what a Mixtape is, here's an explanation...
A Mixtape is a playlist of a certain genre, band or era. The list is generally 80 minutes long, the same length of a blank CD, with further recommendations if some of the songs aren't to your taste. Remember kids, downloading is wrong!
As the world has moved on from CDs and we're in a digital age now, I also make the playlist on Spotify and YouTube where possible. Celebrating 25 years of the Foo Fighters! In case you're wondering, this is a list of what I think are the best Foo Fighters songs - that have never been singles. I'm surprised that some of these songs aren't singles, especially as they are regularly played live or even have music videos in some cases. The final song of the list can be argued that it's Dave Grohl as a solo artist rather than the Foo Fighters as it was around the time when Nirvana broke up, but then, the whole first Foo Fighters album is also technically Dave as a solo artist when you think about it!
Without any further delay, here's the Best of Non-Single Foo Fighters! Next to the tracks are what album each song came out on. Where possible, I've also linked each track on YouTube.
To listen to the playlist on Spotify click here! It's missing a couple of tracks unfortunately, but it's mostly there! To listen to the playlist on YouTube click here! In case you're interested, I've done a few of these Mixtapes over the years, if you like the following artists, perhaps give them a listen by clicking the links below!
Happy New Year people. For the last four years I've been calculating all my play counts on my personal media player, to see what songs I listen to the most. And then at the start of the next year I reveal what the 100 most listened to songs were that year. Last year I revealed The Mercyside 100 2015, the year before I did The Mercyside 100 2014 and of course the year before I did The Mercyside 100 2013 which was the first one. Click on those if you're interested in what I played most on those years.
This year I did The Mercyside 100 2016. Like last year the reason why I'm not doing this in radio show format is because there's a lot of entries in this list by a certain band called Slaves. Slaves are by far my favourite band at the moment and unfortunately, Mixcloud won't allow you to play more than three songs by one artist in the same show. And that means it's difficult, because, well, they appear a lot. Even more than last year even. Which is crazy! I was going to make this into a playlist on YouTube but I can't do that either, because certain songs are not on YouTube which is frustrating. So, in reverse order, here are is The Mercyside 100 2016! These are 100 songs I played more than anything else last year.
So, what was the most played song of the year for me? Here it is...
So there we go! I hope you find some interesting entries in here, and if so, check them out on Youtube if you can, most of the songs are easily available on there. And if you don't like the band Slaves then this list clearly isn't for you! If there's something on this list you've not heard before and you end up really liking, let me know, comment below! I'd be happy to have gotten you into a song or an artist you've not heard before!
"Yellow text" If you don't listen to The Mercy Side, my radio shows which you can find on Mixcloud, then you may not know that I reveal every month what was my "Song of the Month". Basically, those tracks where played more than any other track, on a particular month of 2016. Here's the list in order, with Youtube links attached: January 2016:Live Like an Animal - Slaves February 2016:Well Everybody's Fucking in a UFO - Rob Zombie March 2016:Control (feat. Slaves) - Chase and Status April 2016:The Sound of Silence - Disturbed May 2016:OK - Slaves June 2016:Leave it All Behind - Cult to Follow July 2016:Miss Alissa - Eagles of Death Metal August 2016:Spit it Out - Slaves September 2016:People That You Meet - Slaves October 2016:War Time - King 810 November 2016:Dig - Mudvayne December 2016:NSFW - Psychostick
"Beauty Quest", my most played song of 2016 has never been Song of the Month. It's the first time a song has gotten to #1 without being Song of the Month since 2013, when "Rock and Roll (in a Black Hole) by Rob Zombie did it. Multiple Artist Entries
Here's a list of artists with more than one entry in The Mercyside 100 2016: 24 Entries - Slaves 14 Entries - King 810 5 Entries - Saul Williams 4 Entries - The Fratellis, Nine Inch Nails 2 Entries - Arctic Monkeys, Eagles of Death Metal, Fear Factory, Foo Fighters, Leo Moracchioli Multiple Album Entries
Here's a list of albums with more than one entry in The Mercyside 100 2015:
10 Entries - "Are You Satisfied?" by Slaves 8 Entries - "Memoirs of a Murderer" by King 810; "Take Control" by Slaves 5 Entries - "La Petite Mort or a Conversation With God" by King 810 4 Entries - "MartyrLoserKing" by Saul Williams 3 Entries - "Sugar Coated Bitter Truth" by Slaves 2 Entries - "AM" by Arctic Monkeys; "Costello Music" by The Fratellis
Here's some charts showing you how often songs appeared by the year, or decade...
Also, if you're interested, 53 songs on this list were not singles, which means that 47 of them were!
79% of songs on this list were from the last 6 years, down 1% from last year's statistic of 80% of songs being from the last 5 years. Again I need to give a proper shoutout to King 810. Both King 810 and Slaves have been bands I haven't stopped listening to over the past two years. Both bands got played a heck of a lot in 2015, but both bands practically doubled their tallies this year. One reason is because they're brilliant bands but the second reason in fairness is because they've both released a new album last year. Both albums are very good. Clearly the message I'm giving you is listen to Slaves and listen to King 810, dammit!! Well that's it from me at the moment, I'll be back at some point I'm sure with another website project! All the best and thanks for reading!
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We’ve finally arrived at the end of this listing. It may
have taken a lot longer than I ever expected to (it should have only been 100
days!) but we got there! I hope you’ve
enjoyed this listing and I’m sure you want to know what my favourite song has
been over the Last Half Decade. Before we get there, I’d just like to recap the
whole listing from #100 to #2… #100: Madness – Muse #99: Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites – Skrillex #98: Neat Little Rows – Elbow #97: No Reflection - Marilyn Manson #96: Explain My Heart - Saul Williams #95: I'm in the Mood... For Beards - The Beards #94: She's Not Gone Yet But She's Leaving - The Fratellis #93: Shotgun - Limp Bizkit #92: Can't Rely on You - Paloma Faith #91: Blue Blood Blues - The Dead Weather #90: Rebellion - Linkin Park (feat. Daron Malakian) #89: Paradise – Coldplay #88: Sing - Ed Sheeran #87: Mein Land – Rammstein #86: Elephant - Tame Impala #85: Love Turns to Hate - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line
Disaster #84: On Top of the World - Imagine Dragons #83: G.D.F.R. - Flo Rida #82: Evil Eye - Franz Ferdinand #81: Little Monster - Royal Blood #80: Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke #79: Brendan's Death Song - Red Hot Chili Peppers #78: Go Kindergarten - The Lonely Island (feat. Robyn) #77: The Negative One – Slipknot #76: Royals – Lorde #75: Government Trash - Death From Above 1979 #74: Survival – Eminem #73: Sick Bubblegum - Rob Zombie #72: Gentleman – PSY #71: Go Right Ahead - The Hives #70: These Days - Foo Fighters #69: Word Crimes - Weird Al Yankovic #68: One for the Road - Arctic Monkeys #67: Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold #66: Princess of China – Coldplay (feat. Rihanna) #65: Kill the Power – Skindred #64: Where's Your Car Debbie? – Slaves #63: Suit and Tie - Justin Timberlake (feat. Jay-Z) #62: Stevie – Kasabian #61: Narcissistic Cannibal – KoRn (feat. Skrillex and Kill
the Noise) #60: Bad Girls - M.I.A. #59: Devil in I – Slipknot #58: Tighten Up - The Black Keys #57: QWERTY – Mushroomhead #56: Radioactive - Imagine Dragons #55: Dibby Dibby Sound - DJ Fresh vs Jay Fay feat. Ms
Dynamite #54: Came Back Haunted - Nine Inch Nails #53: Gangnam Style – PSY #52: Warning – Skindred #51: Bassline Junkie - Dizzee Rascal #50: Fat Around the Heart - King 810 #49: Supremacy – Muse #48: Bridge Burning - Foo Fighters #47: Never Never – KoRn #46: Sandpaper – Fozzy (feat. M Shadows) #45: Out of the Black - Royal Blood #44: Eez-eh – Kasabian #43: Sweet Sour - Band of Skulls #42: Berzerk – Eminem #41: Santo Domingo - Jon Fratelli #40: Talk Dirty - Jason Derulo #39: 99 Percenters – Ministry #38: The Vampyre of Time and Memory - The Queens of the
Stone Age #37: Right Now – PSY #36: Panic Station – Muse #35: Figure it Out - Serj Tankian #34: Lonely Boy - The Black Keys #33: Low Hangin' Fruit - Tenacious D #32: Days Are Forgotten – Kasabian #31: Figure it Out - Royal Blood #30: It Gets Worse - Mindless Self Indulgence #29: Karma - Jamie N Commons #28: Get Up! – KoRn (feat. Skrillex) #27: Snap Out of It - Arctic Monkeys #26: Hey – Slaves #25: Thrift Shop – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis #24: Megatron - Crazy Town #23: If I Had a Tail - The Queens of the Stone Age #22: House of Pain - Hot Action Cop #21: Howlin' For You - The Black Keys #20: Something From Nothing - Foo Fighters #19: Thieves - Limp Bizkit #18: Jack Sparrow - The Lonely Island #17: Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys #16: Blame it on the Boom Boom - Black Stone Cherry #15: Black Skinhead - Kanye West #14: Baby We're Refugees! - Jon Fratelli #13: The Island - Pt II (Dusk) – Pendulum #12: Dance - Saul Williams #11: Ain't No Grave - Johnny Cash #10: Niggas in Paris - Jay-Z and Kanye West #9: Smooth Sailing - The Queens of the Stone Age #8: Rap God – Eminem #7: Custer – Slipknot #6: I Just Had Sex - The Lonely Island (feat. Akon) #5: Killem All - King 810 #4: Jungle (Remix) - Jamie N Commons and the X-Ambassadors
(feat. Jay-Z) #3: Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson (feat. Bruno Mars) #2: Bangarang – Skrillex (feat. Sirah) Okay so my favourite song over the Last Half Decade is…
#1 “The Hunter” by Slaves Released: 17/11/14 Album: Are You Satisfied?
If you know me well, chances are high you probably had an inkling that this would be #1 on my list. And you know what? I actually debated putting it lower in the list because of the fact that it was an obvious choice for me. But when it comes down to it, there is only one song that stands out to me as above and beyond anything else released over this five year period.
I absolutely love this song. I absolutely love this band. I’m so happy I got to see them last month, they were incredible. I love the riff, I love how the song builds up, the video is pretty cool too, it’s discretely catchy and it’s… just… so… cool. I’m not a massive punk rock fan but with Slaves making garage rock merge with punk (a formula done by other bands, I’m not saying they’re the first) they have something that does sound raw and passionate and it packs a massive punch. I do encourage anyone who likes British rock, or punk, or garage rock a listen to this band. Seriously they’re one of the coolest new bands out there, and this is their biggest hit to date, and, clearly in my opinion, the best too.
Here's the video if you want to hear it!
And that’s it! Many thanks for putting up for my long
periods of absences in the making of this listing. I’ll probably do a Top 100
Favourite Music Singles of the Decade of 2010-19 in the year 2021 or something.
Here’s some nerdy stats of my listing if it appeals to you:
Annual breakdown of music singles: 2010 – 9 2011 – 21 2012 – 16 2013 – 27 2014 – 27 First and last singles on the list in chronological order: First: “Sick Bubblegum” by Rob Zombie – released 11th
January 2010 (#73) Last: “Megatron” by Crazy Town – released 17th
December 2014 (#24) Artists with Two Entries: Coldplay (#66, #89); Imagine Dragons (#56, #84); Jamie N
Commons (#4, #29); Jon Fratelli (#14, #41); King 810 (#5, #50); Limp Bizkit
(#19, #93); Saul Williams (#12, #96); Skindred (#52, #65); Skrillex (#2, #99) Artists with Three Entries (maximum cap): Arctic Monkeys (#17, #27, #68); The Black Keys (#21, #34,
#58); Eminem (#8, #42, #74); Foo Fighters (#20, #48, #70); Kasabian (#32, #44,
#64); KoRn (#28, #47, #61); The Lonely Island (#6, #18, #78); Muse (#36, #49,
#100); PSY (#37, #53, #72); The Queens of the Stone Age (##9, #23, #38); Royal
Blood (#31, #45, #81); Slaves (#1, #26, #64); Slipknot (#7, #59, #77) Albums with Two Entries: 48:13 by Kasabian (#44, #62); Are You Satisfied? by Slaves
(#1, #26); Brothers by The Black Keys (#21, #58); Memoirs of a Murderer by King
810 (#5, #50); (Mylo Xyloto by Coldplay (#66, #89); Night Visions by Imagine
Dragons (#56, #84); The Path of Totality by KoRn (#28, #61); Psycho Jukebox by
Jon Fratelli (#14, #41); Turtleneck and Chain by The Lonely Island (#6, #18); Volcanic
Sunlight by Saul Williams (#12, #96) Albums with Three Entries: …Like Clockwork by The Queens of the Stone Age (##9, #23,
#38); The 2nd Law by Muse (#36, #49, #100); .5: The Gray Chapter by
Slipknot (#7, #59, #77); AM by the Arctic Monkeys (#17, #27, #68); The Marshall
Mathers LP 2 by Eminem (#8, #42, #74); Royal Blood (#31, #45, #81) I thought I’d do a Mixtape Playlist so if you wanted to
listen to the “Best Of” in one go, you can do now this way. I’ve set a cap of
only one song per artist. Not familiar with my Mixtapes, here’s a description
of what one is:
A Mixtape is a playlist of a certain genre, band or era. The
list is generally 80 minutes long, the same length of a blank CD, with further
recommendations if some of the songs aren't to your taste. Remember kids,
downloading is wrong! The Best of The Last Half Decade (2010-14)
1.Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson (feat. Bruno Mars)
2.Jungle (Remix) - Jamie N Commons and the
X-Ambassadors (feat. Jay-Z)
3.Black Skinhead - Kanye West
4.I Just Had Sex - The Lonely Island (feat. Akon)
5.Rap God – Eminem
6.The Island - Pt II (Dusk) – Pendulum
7.Bangarang – Skrillex (feat. Sirah)
8.Niggas in Paris - Jay-Z and Kanye West
9.Dance - Saul Williams
10.Ain't No Grave - Johnny Cash
11.Baby We're Refugees! - Jon Fratelli
12.Howlin' For You - The Black Keys
13.Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys
14.Smooth Sailing - The Queens of the Stone Age
15.Something From Nothing - Foo Fighters
16.The Hunter – Slaves
17.Blame it on the Boom Boom - Black Stone Cherry
18.Thieves - Limp Bizkit
19.Custer – Slipknot
20.Killem All - King 810
And here are your five alternatives:
1.House of Pain - Hot Action Cop
2.Megatron - Crazy Town
3.Thrift Shop – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
4.Get Up! – KoRn (feat. Skrillex)
5.It Gets Worse - Mindless Self Indulgence
I’ve also made this Mixtape on YouTube, you can view and
listen to it there if you want by clicking here!
And… that’s the end! Thank you all so much for reading and
following this listing. Check out the Music tab above for anything else on
music I’ve covered over the last five or six years on this website if you haven’t
already. It’s nearly Christmas so I’ll take this opportunity to wish you all a
Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
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You know certain songs bring you back to certain parts of your life? Well “Something From Nothing” sticks with me a lot from a personal perspective because of what happened, well, a good 12 months ago now. Last year I got diagnosed with diabetes, cut a long story short I’ve since lost three and a half stone and got myself in better shape – I actually ran a half marathon a month ago which is crazy considering I hated exercise before. Well a year ago or so I started going to the gym and there’s a jukebox that has a playlist. Most people that went the gym played dance and pop but not me of course. I used to play this a lot, and still do.
The song is so good to play in the gym because the build up is so strong. The beginning is so quiet and the way it builds up to “FUCK IT ALL I CAME FROM NOTHING” is immense. It really gave me the energy I needed to dig in deep on that treadmill and last a longer distance at a faster pace each time, sweating like crazy. Music is an amazing thing and it does stuff to you that you wouldn’t expect. I love this song because it’s a great song on a mediocre album, but I also am so thankful for this song for helping me through, in my eyes, a very dark period of my life.
What an intro line. What an intro song. I reviewed this album five years ago and suggested back then that it's possibly becoming my favourite Foo Fighters album. I can now confirm that it's true - this is my favourite album of their 21 year career. And this song kicks so much ass. It's not tremendously different from a lot of their heavier tracks, but because it's the intro song, and it does its job so well, and its Foo Fighters at their noisiest and most explosive, I just fell in love with it very very easily.
"These Days" was a slow burner for me. "Wasting Light" has become my favourite album by the Foos and whilst I've always liked "These Days", I think it wasn't until I saw the music video that I truly appreciated how damn good this song is. When Dave Grohl sings "but it's alright..." live in the music video and the crowd errupts... it just sends chills down my spine. I saw the Foo Fighters 11 years ago live but I really truly wish I appreciated them back then as much as I do now. I'd happily see the Foo Fighters again live, they're an incredible experience. Anyway, "These Days" is just a lovely Foo Fighters song, on an excellent album that I've reviewed on my website, you can read that here.
The Mercyside 100: 2015 Edition Happy New Year people. For the last three years I've been calculating all my play counts on my personal media player, to see what songs I listen to the most. And then at the start of the next year I reveal what the 100 most listened to songs were that year. Last year I revealed The Mercyside 100 2014 and before that I did The Mercyside 100 2013, click on those if you're interested in what I played most on those years.
This year I did The Mercyside 100 2015. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to do DJ shows of these songs. One of the reasons why is because I'm having problems with my computer at the moment, sound wise. The main reason however, without revealing too much, is because there's a lot of entries in this list by a certain band called Slaves. Slaves are by far my favourite band at the moment and unfortunately, Mixcloud won't allow you to play more than three songs by one artist in the same show. And that means it's difficult, because, well, they appear a lot. I was going to make this into a playlist on YouTube but I can't do that either, because certain songs are not on YouTube which is frustrating. So, in reverse order, here are is The Mercyside 100 2015! These are 100 songs I played more than anything else last year.
So, what was the most played song of the year for me? Here it is...
#1: The Hunter - Slaves ("Are You Satisfied?", 2014)
So there we go! I hope you find some interesting entries in here, and if so, check them out on Youtube if you can, most of the songs are easily available on there. And if you don't like the band Slaves then this list clearly isn't for you! If there's something on this list you've not heard before and you end up really liking, let me know, comment below! I'd be happy to have gotten you into a song or an artist you've not heard before!
"Green text" If you don't listen to The Mercy Side, my radio shows which you can find on Mixcloud, then you may not know that I reveal every month what was my "Song of the Month". Basically, those tracks where played more than any other track, on a particular month of 2015. Here's the list in order, with Youtube links attached: January 2015: The Hunter - Slaves February 2015:House of Pain - Hot Action Cop March 2015:Feed the Mantaray - Slaves April 2015:Rise - David Guetta (feat. Skylar Grey) May 2015:Take It - King 810 June 2015:Do Something - Slaves July 2015:Blame it on the Boom Boom - Black Stone Cherry August 2015:Superhero - Faith No More September 2015:Reapers - Muse October 2015:Waiting - Green Day November 2015:Complexity - Eagles of Death Metal December 2015:The Hunter - Slaves If it confuses you why I added "Waiting" by Green Day at the start of my Top 100 reveal despite it not actually being one of the 100 most played songs last year, hopefully it makes more sense now - it was "Song of the Month" for October. Multiple Artist Entries
Here's a list of artists with more than one entry in The Mercyside 100 2015: 12 Entries - Slaves 8 Entries - King 810 4 Entries - Foo Fighters, Royal Blood 3 Entries - Arctic Monkeys, The Beards, Eagles of Death Metal, Jamie N Commons, Kasabian, The Prodigy, The Queens of the Stone Age, Slipknot 2 Entries - FFS, KoRn, Muse Multiple Album Entries
Here's a list of albums with more than one entry in The Mercyside 100 2015:
9 Entries - "Are You Satisfied?" by Slaves 8 Entries - "Memoirs of a Murderer" by King 810 4 Entries - "Royal Blood" by Royal Blood 3 Entries - ".5: The Gray Chapter" by Slipknot; "48:13" by Kasabian; "AM" by Arctic Monkeys; "The Beard Album" by The Beards 2 Entries - "…Like Clockwork" by The Queens of the Stone Age; "Drones" by Muse; "FFS" by FFS; "Sugar Coated Bitter Truth" by Slaves; "The Day is My Enemy" by The Prodigy
Here's some charts showing you how often songs appeared by the year, or decade...
Also, if you're interested, 46 songs on this list were not singles, which means that 54 of them were!
So I'm listening to less "older" music now than I have been in the previous two years doing this list. That's 80% by the way, from the last half decade. Also, considering I haven't mentioned them once yet, I have to honour King 810, another one of my new favourite bands. Seriously, check them out, they're the best new metal band out there, in my opinion. Think Slipknot meshed with KoRn, which is no coincidence, because that's how I discovered them, by seeing both Slipknot and KoRn last year! Great band, checkem out!! Well that's it from me at the moment, I'll be back very soon with another website project! All the best and thanks for reading!
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