Publisher's Synopsis
Find new artists. Find new songs. See where and if your current favorites land on this very unique top songs of all time list.
The book counts down the station's top 1000 songs of all time and has a short write-up for each song including where and if the song landed on the Billboard charts. The Hot 100, Mainstream Rock and Alternative (Modern Rock) Charts are the focus, but if the song also landed on the R&B or Dance (Dance Club) Charts that's mentioned too. And there are a number of songs on the list that didn't hit any of these charts.Rock on Neon Radio is a Live365 radio station. The station's motto is "some that you recognize, some that you've hardly even heard of" which is a quote from the song Celluloid Heroes by The Kinks written by Ray Davies. So you will hear music you know from artists you know, music you may be unfamiliar with from artists you know, and music from artists many do not know. What does that mean in terms of this list? The countdown in this book will be very different than the usual top song list. Sales don't matter. Single or album cut, that's irrelevant too. Genre, yes, songs the station feels comfortable playing for rock music audiences, but that's not just mainstream rock. Alternative, new wave, punk, pop, indie, adult alternative, grunge, and more are all fair game on the station. And it is the song itself that determines airplay, not the main genre that an artist identifies with. So specific songs from progressive trance, electronic, dance, country, R&B, reggae, metal and more are on the station's servers and in this book as well. And the music is from the mid 1960's thru the current decade.
