The 40 8/19/06 - 8/25/06

1. Make Damn Sure / Taking Back Sunday (4 wks @ #1)
   


2. One Blood / The Game (3)
   
   



3. Here I Come / The Roots (20)
   This is just a 30 second promo for the album featuring "Here I Come". There isn't a video for the song so this is as close as it gets for now. This could shape up to be one of the best albums of the year. Oh yeah, this is the biggest mover this week.



4. The Funeral / Band of Horses (2)
   
B of H slips a couple spots due to the hip hop takeover of the top 3. Maybe if Diplo remixed this track it might make it's way back up there...
5. Put your money where your mouth is / Jet (9)
Did someone ask for more cowbell?
6. Cheated Hearts / Yeah Yeah Yeahs (5)
The YYYs are still on fire with this, but I am itching for a new one. Check out their I tunes acoustic version of Sonic Youth's Diamond Sea. A fitting cover executed perfectly.
7. I Write Sins, not Tragedies / Panic! at the Disco (4)
8. Goin' Down / Yung Joc (8)
9. Knights of Cydonia / Muse(12)
10. Sexy Back / Justin Timberlake (6)
11. Your eyes are liars / Sound Team (13)
12. Leave Before the Lights Come On / Arctic Monkeys (15)
13. Miss Murder / AFI (7)
14. Black Swan / Thom Yorke (10)
15. Wolf like me / TV on the Radio (30)
I guess this is the first single from Return to Cookie Mountain which drops on 9/12. I am predicting that the modern-day art-rock masters will breakthrough with the new album.
16. Tell me Tell me / The Adored(11)
17. Sing it out / Hope of the States(14)
18. I will follow you into the dark / Death Cab For Cutie(17)
19. Original Fire / Audioslave(19)
20. Viscera Eyes / The Mars Volta(18)
21. The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven / The Black Angels(21)
22. Lloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken / Camera Obscura(19)
23. Smash Your Head / Girl Talk(24)
Cut and paste. I did this stuff with a double deck tape recorder up in my bedroom when I was 15. I couldn't match production value with Girl Talk, but it's fun to play name that tune with all of this song's samples.
24. Touchdown Turnaround / hellogoodbye(35)
25. Signs of Life / Every Move a Picture(27)
26. Don't Wake Me Up / The Hush Sound(23)
27. Little razorblade / Pink Spiders(38)
28. I Gotta Feeling (Just Nineteen)/ Eagles of Death Metal (29)
    
29. Nausea / Beck NEW
One of the most versatile artists of our time returns in October with The Information. This is one of the new tracks on his myspace page (click the song title).
30. Lay Low / My Morning Jacket(26)
31 weeks on the chart. Longest run for any song this year. Probably for quite a while.
31. Ladylike / Storm and the Balls (31)
32. Save Room / John Legend NEW
33. Black Grease / The Black Angels NEW
34. Summer Shudder / AFI(22)
35. Phenomena / Yeah Yeah Yeahs(25)
36. Smiley Faces / Gnarls Barkley(40)
37. Crazy / Gnarls Barkley(34)
38. Liar (takes one to know one) / Taking Back Sunday NEW
39. In the morning / Razorlight (33)
40. And we all return to our roots / The Forecast NEW

A little more change on the 40 this week stylistically speaking. The number in parentheses after the title/artist is the song's position last week. New songs are in green with big red letters after them. That kind of drives that home doesn't it?

This is shaping up to be an exciting fall for music. New TV on the Radio, The Mars Volta, Beck, and The Roots should keep things interesting aurally for me. But there is a slew of other big name new releases coming in the next couple of months from Barenaked Ladies, John Mayer, Bob Dylan (Rolling Stone just gave it 5 stars), The Killers, Audioslave, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, and Jessica Simpson.

I want to mention that Bruce Gary (drummer for the Knack) passed away this past week of lymphoma. The Knack's "Get The Knack" was one of the first albums I recall owning and air drumming along to. My Sharona is still a favorite of mine and was the first song I recall being truly obsessed about. I 'd play it over and over until I knew every lyric and drum beat. While The Knack is oft-regarded as a one hit wonder, there were several other great songs on that album and it's follow up, though none nearly as iconic as "My Sharona". Bruce and the other members of The Knack unkowingly laid the foundation for my lifelong obsession with music, music lists, song structures, and all the things that make me a music dork. I would have inevitably travelled the same path without them, but they got to me first and you always remember your first. RIP Bruce Gary.