Ten Songs Rock Radio Forgot About

Here at Sans Sheriff, we’re always listening to the radio on our journeys to and from important meetings with imaginary people that don’t exist. I always try and find that station that claims to be different from the run-of-the-mill chartshow crap machines – there’s always Gaydio in Manchester specializing in dance/house/gay, Kerrang! on DAB and Rock FM in the midlands. (Although listen to Rock FM, and you’ll find it’s a misleading name). We’re sick of hearing Journey, Queen and Nickelback. Anyway, enough babble. Here are ten songs that no longer seem to see the light of day on rock radio, for no reason at all.

10: Reverend & the Makers – Heavyweight Champion of the World

Coming in at number ten is Reverend and his many makers, with a delightful festival track that [probably] never made it to [a decent] festival. This is one of those tracks that jumps from behind a rock, dances around you for a very long and painful time, but then get’s bored and leaps off into the distance. By which time, you want it to come bounding back. Great summer jam. Groovy.

9: Oasis – The Importance of Being Idle

Don’t get used to us talking about Oasis around these parts. We’re just sure we haven’t heard this in a while, and it’s a shame. It was quite the welcoming track to give us padding around the Kylie Minogue and Katy Perry assaults we used to receive from commercial radio, and it was a nice British touch on rock radio.

8: Feeder – Buck Rodgers 

Recently given a new lease of life in an advert for a well-known sports drink (called Lucozade), the powers-that-be at many stations took it as an opportunity to get the song back into the public domain. Sadly, like the advert, this didn’t last too long. In fact, the advert even had it’s own trailer and countdown to launch: shame it hasn’t revived Feeder the same way Lucozade revives me when I’m sat on the sofa. HE’S GOT A CD PLAYER / PLAYER / PLAYER / PLAYER / PLAYER…

7: Hoobastank – The Reason

A 2004 hit for Hoobastank turned the radio’s of the UK into some sort of alt-rock mini-festivals in our kitchens. Overplayed and probably hated by many, The Reason was actually a good track. It’s a shame we hate good music, Why did 2004/2006 have so many good bands? We don’t know. And frankly my dear…

6: McFly – Five Colors In Her Hair

Ok, pushing it with the ‘rock’ here a bit, but a screamer of a track indeed from moppy-top muppets McFly back in the day. Only really present now on ‘McFly vs Busted’ re-runs on music channels aimed at teenage girls / housebound bitches, this track was responsible for the incredible rise and mediocre fall of young men playing blameless pop-punk for charity fun days.

5: Avenged Sevenfold – Bat Country

Hailing from an album that had more twists and turns than a drive through rural Wales, Bat Country was actually a really nice change and allowed A7X (why the fuck people insist on still calling them that after they’ve realized it’s probably easier to say the proper band name, I don’t know) to penetrate the daytime. A nice catchy chorus and some gruff vocals by everyone’s favorite man named after shapes caused by blocking sun rays. Mmmmmmm, shadows.

4: The Darkness – I Believe in a Thing Called Love

This track pretty much seduced the whole nation using nothing but a heart with a thumbs up coming through it, and the voice box of Justin Hawkins. It’s hard not to like this song, and it’s equally hard to not notice it’s absence from our stupid radios. Does anyone still listen to the radio? WHAT IS SPOTIFY?

3: Meatloaf – Bat out of Hell

Going into our top three, and how do we not include the camp antics of Meatloaf? Admittedly, this songs riper than a black apple, but it’s still a hella fun to belt it out in the car or shower. Again, we have to wait for stupid ’50 Tracks of the Century!’ countdowns on dumb music television for this one, or if your dad announces he’s found his old Zen player and he’s not afraid to use it.

2: The Offspring – Hit That

Hailing a synth hook that’s impossible to not annoy your family with for three days after the initial listen, Hit That is a fun track that doesn’t quite get the air-time it should do. Complete with matching chorus, and a weird-ass video to go with it from the time bad CGI was ‘hot’, it’s a shame we don’t get more Offspring on our airways. All together now…”I’M ON A ROLL! WITH ALL THE GIRLS I KNOW!”

1: Nirvana – In Bloom

Coming in at number one is In Bloom, an absolute stomper from Nirvana that’s seen many covers done by other, shittier bands, but never quite given the attention it deserves. Maybe it’s the reference to guns…maybe it’s the fact it’s a bit rough around the edges. Maybe it’s the fact that everyone is stupid and prefers Smells Like Teen Spirit instead, which is the wrong decision. In Bloom holds a great video, too.

So there you go. Ten tracks we don’t hear very often on the radio, and instead they’ve been replaced by the Theory of a Deadman & All Time Low‘s of this world.

Just before you go, you lucky people with Spotify can listen to this list right here: Sans Sheriff: Ten Songs The Radio Forgot (Oasis and Meatloaf are tributes, I can’t work miracles)

Coming soon on Sans Sheriff: Ann Wobinson joins Wobson Green on his extreme dubstep adventures.

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