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Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, and then I rearrange the top 25 based on my estimation of their quality. I used to rank all 25, now I just rank the cream of the crop.

Original Version
1. Portugal. The Man – “Feel It Still”
2. Imagine Dragons – “Thunder”
3. Imagine Dragons – “Beliver”
4. Tom Petty – “I Won’t Back Down”
5. Tom Petty – “Free Fallin'”
6. The Revivalists – “Wish I Knew You”
7. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”
8. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Learning to Fly”
9. Theory of a Deadman – “Rx (Medicate)”
10. Tom Petty – “You Don’t Know How It Feels”
11. Thirty Seconds to Mars – “Walk on Water”
12. The Killers – “The Man”
13. Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
14. Zach Williams – “Old Church Choir”
15. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “American Girl”
16. Foo Fighters – “The Sky is a Neighborhood”
17. Fall Out Boy – “The Last of the Real Ones”
18. Linkin Park – “One More Light”
19. Vance Joy – “Lay It on Me”
20. Judah & the Lion – “Suit and Jacket”
21. The Lumineers – “Angela”
22. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Don’t Do Me Like That”
23. U2 – “You’re the Best Thing About Me”
24. Tom Petty – “Wildflowers”
25. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Don’t Come Around Here No More”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Don’t Come Around Here No More
2. Runnin’ Down a Dream
3. I Won’t Back Down
4. American Girl
5. Don’t Do Me Like That
6. Free Fallin’
7. Learning to Fly
8. Feel It Still
9. The Sky is a Neighborhood
10. Mary Jane’s Last Dance
11. You Don’t Know How It Feels
12. The Man
13. You’re the Best Thing About Me
14. Lay It on Me

Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, and then I rearrange the top 25 based on my estimation of their quality. I used to rank all 25, now I just rank the cream of the crop.

Original Version
1. Portugal. The Man – “Feel It Still”
2. Imagine Dragons – “Thunder”
3. Imagine Dragons – “Believer”
4. Tom Petty – “Free Fallin'”
5. Tom Petty – “I Won’t Back Down”
6. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”
7. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Learning to Fly”
8. Tom Petty – “You Don’t Know How It Feels”
9. Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
10. The Revivalists – “Wish I Knew You”
11. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “American Girl”
12. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Don’t Bring Me Down”
13. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Don’t Do Me Like That”
14. Theory of a Deadman – “Rx (Medicate)”
15. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Don’t Come Around Here No More”
16. Tom Petty – “Wildflowers”
17. Thirty Seconds to Mars – “Walk on Water”
18. The Killers – “The Man”
19. Zach Williams – “Old Church Choir”
20. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Breakdown”
21. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Here Comes My Girl”
22. Linkin Park – “One More Light”
23. Fall Out Boy – “The Last of the Real Ones”
24. U2 – “You’re the Best Thing About Me”
25. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Into the Great Wide Open”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Don’t Come Around Here No More
2. Runnin’ Down a Dream
3. Breakdown
4. I Won’t Back Down
5. American Girl
6. Don’t Do Me Like That
7. Free Fallin’
8. Learning to Fly
9. Feel It Still
10. Mary Jane’s Last Dance
11. Into the Great Wide Open
12. You Don’t Know How It Feels
13. The Man
14. Here Comes My Girl
15. You’re the Best Thing About Me