The 40 8/5 - 8/11

1. Make Damn Sure / Taking Back Sunday



2. The Funeral / Band of Horses



3. Cheated Hearts / Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4. I Write Sins, not Tragedies / Panic! at the Disco
   
5. Miss Murder / AFI
6. Black Swan / Thom Yorke
7. Sexy Back / Justin Timberlake
8. Knights of Cydonia / Muse
9. One Blood / The Game
10. Original Fire / Audioslave
11. I will follow you into the dark / Death Cab For Cutie
12. Goin' Down / Yung Joc
13. Don't Wake Me Up / The Hush Sound
14. Tell me Tell me / The Adored
15. Sing it out / Hope of the States
16. Your eyes are liars / Sound Team
17. Phenomena / Yeah Yeah Yeahs
18. Viscera Eyes / The Mars Volta
19. Lloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken / Camera Obscura
20. Summer Shudder / AFI
21. The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven / The Black Angels
22. Leave Before the Lights Come On / Arctic Monkeys
23. Lay Low / My Morning Jacket
24. Smash Your Head / Girl Talk
25. Well thought out twinkles / Silversun Pickups
26. Country Girl / Primal Scream
27. Crazy / Gnarls Barkley
28. Signs of Life / Every Move a Picture
29. In the morning / Razorlight
30. Put your money where your mouth is / Jet
31. Enemies like this / Radio 4
32. I Gotta Feeling (Just Nineteen)/ Eagles of Death Metal
33. Level / The Raconteurs
34. Ladylike / Storm and the Balls
35. She moves in her own way / The Kooks
36. Wet Sand / Red Hot Chili Peppers
37. A Certain Romance / Arctic Monkeys
38. Sugar / Ladytron
39. Mission / Van She
40. I want you so hard / Eagles of Death Metal

Another week on top for Taking Back Sunday, another week I smell like teen spirit. Melancholy is quickly approaching the top in the form of Band of Horses though.

New this week at 30 is Jet's Put your money where your mouth is. Sounds a bit different than their last album, but time will tell if they progress past their derivative-based rock and roll. Local heroes Storm and the Balls are the other new entry at 34 with Ladylike. I can only find this on their myspace page (in both PG and R rated versions - how considerate). I stream this at least once a day.

I am very glad to see Storm doing so well on Rock Star right now. She goes out each week and delivers one of the top two or three perfomances. Hard to say if she will win, but if not, she is getting much more publicity for her band and that is a beautiful thing.

The only other major movement comes from The Game who flies from 37 last week to 9 this week. I gots me some love for the dude with the teardrop tat.

In the real world, Fergie has found her way to Billboard's #1 with London Bridge. That is a no-brainer. I called that one a few weeks ago...someone needs to call Gwen Stefani and tell her that her Hollaback Girl got hijacked. I am still waiting for Justin Timberlake's Sexyback to fly into Billboard's top 10. Hurry up and release the song on I Tunes already. I would much rather see an ex Mousketeer on top than a Kids Incorporated alumni. But that is me.