What a crazy couple of weeks. Not a lot of time for blogging unfortunately but I am back and ready to let 'er rip. Last week, AFI took over the top spot from Gnarls (We've been number one for years) Barkley. Other than that, business as usual. The Friday 5 is not really an accurate title for this feature anymore. Despite having limited time to devote to my frivolities, I am going for broke this week. Here's hoping it continues.
1. Miss Murder / AFI
2. Cheated Hearts / Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. Lay Low / My Morning Jacket
4. Phenomena / Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Those four songs have been at the upper reaches for the last 2.5 months. That's 10 weeks if you are doing the math. Something to be said for consistency.
5. Sexy Back / Justin Timberlake
Out of nowhere comes the former N'Sync-er with a perfect summertime jam. I can't even fake the hate on JT. Nor can I consider him a guilty pleasure. He is an artist pushing himself forward and not looking to the past to inspire his future. This track is totally different than any of his other hits, but just as catchy.
Speaking of guilty pleasures...
6. Make Damn Sure / Taking Back Sunday
I am not 16, but I am loving this simple song nonetheless. Maybe it is helping me get in touch with my softer side. No wait a minute, that is number...
7. I will follow you into the dark / Death Cab For Cutie
8. I Write Sins, not Tragedies / Panic! at the Disco
Another guilty pleasure that relies more on repeating the chorus than creating a full song, but for whatever reason, I am down with it. These songs don't typically have a long shelf life with me though.
9. Crazy / Gnarls Barkley
Finally moving downward after being at the top since the end of April.
10. The Funeral / Band of Horses
So now 2 of the 5 songs I said I shouldn't be listening to in regards to my personal life situation are in my top 10. Relevance...almost as important as consistency.
11. Enemies like this / Radio 4
12. She moves in her own way / The Kooks
Go down to music player on the site to check the track out.
13. The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven / The Black Angels
14. Wet Sand / Red Hot Chili Peppers
More like quicksand for the Chilis right now.
15. Don't Wake Me Up / The Hush Sound
Another band bringing to mind Duran Duran (Killers, Lovemakers, etc...). At least in the chorus
16. Original Fire / Audioslave
New entry here. The band is saying that the new album, Revelations, sounds like Led Zeppelin meets Earth Wind and Fire. I think that description is accurate for this first single from it. Audioslave has rarely lived up to my expectations. Perhaps I am expecting too much from a band formed by two of my favorite groups of the 90s - Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden. This track is doing it for me right now though.
17. Knights of Cydonia / Muse
Bohemian Rhapsody-like track from brand new album, Black Holes and Revelations.
18. Love Train / Wolfmother
19. Black Swan / Thom Yorke
A little something to hold us until Radiohead releases their new one next year. Couldn't agree more with the chorus.
20. Woman / Wolfmother
21. Level / The Raconteurs
22. A Certain Romance / Arctic Monkeys
23. It's Going Down / Yung Joc
My only rap entry right now. Not a big fan of a lot of the stuff out there in hip hop land, but that is probably me showing my age. Young Joc...what about Young MC? "Bust a Move" this ain't.
24. Turn it again / Red Hot Chili Peppers
25. That old pair of jeans / Fatboy Slim
26. Who the fuck are Arctic Monkeys? / Arctic Monkeys
If you have to ask, you haven't been paying attention.
27. I want you so hard / Eagles of Death Metal
28. Country Girl / Primal Scream
Welcome back boys.
29. Dirty Harry / Gorillaz
30 Just a Thought / Gnarls Barkley
31. Fake Tales of San Francisco / Arctic Monkeys
32. When the sun goes down / Arctic Monkeys
33. In the morning / Razorlight
34. Life Wasted / Pearl Jam
35. Tell me Tell me / The Adored
36. Saving Grace / Tom Petty
37. Le Disko / Shiny Toy Guns
38. Readymade / Red Hot Chili Peppers
39. Louisiana / The Walkmen
40. When you were young / The Killers
The advance single from their new album, Sam's Town. I have only heard this on their Myspace page and website. The album drops in October (at least for now) and the title of it may change. You know how rock stars can be.
There it is. Not Ryan Seacrest's Top 40. This is what bumps my booty, shakes my soul, and keeps me going. Until next week, keep the music playing.
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