Jun 5, 2009

The Mixtape 06/05/09

A Perfect 10 Denied, Married Musicians Moving Up, and War Is Waged Against a French Navy.

It has happened. It took an army to dethrone Silversun Pickups before they could reach a double-digit stay at the top of The Mixtape. Actually it took a Navy. A French Navy courtesy of Camera Obscura who sit at the top of this week's 'Tape for the first time ever.

Silversun Pickups still have three songs in the top ten, but it doesn't look like "It's Nice To Know You Work Alone" (4) or "Catch and Release" (10) will be following the nine-week number-one run of "Panic Switch." That would be an impressive feat given Grizzly Bear's climb from #6-3 with "Two Weeks," Green Day's ascension from #14-6 with the title track of their latest epic, and Animal Collective's leap from #19-7 with "Summertime Clothes."

Not to mention that two other songs are making serious moves toward the summit. YACHT makes a downright impressive jump from #40-12 with "Psychic City" and Modest Mouse move quite respectably from #34-19 with "Satellite Skin."

It's a good week for husband/wife combos on The Mixtape. Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon celebrate 25 years of marriage this year) move from #39-34 with "Sacred Trickster," Kevin and Anita Robinson's Viva Voce climb from #35-26 with "Devotion," and Dan Boeckner (along with wife Alexei Perry) sees 'Tape action in the form of a band that's not Wolf Parade, his day job that's enjoyed much Mixtape success. Boeckner and Perry's Handsome Furs leads the week's new entries at #23 with "Radio Kaliningrad" from their second album, Face Control.

The other new entries appear at the bottom of the 'Tape. The Mars Volta's first single from upcoming album Octahedron, "Since We've Been Wrong," enters at #39 while Free Energy appears on the Mixtape for the first time with "Dream City" at #40.

The inevitable battle between Camera Obscura, Grizzly Bear, Green Day, and Animal Collective for the top spot will make the next few weeks quite interesting. YACHT, Modest Mouse, and Handsome Furs all seem destined for the top ten as well. Let the Summer Games begin!

  1. French Navy/ Camera Obscura (1 week @ #1) iTunes MySpace
  2. Panic Switch / Silversun Pickups iTunes MySpace
  3. Two Weeks / Grizzly Bear iTunes MySpace
  4. It's Nice to Know You Work Alone / Silversun Pickups iTunes MySpace
  5. Rain On/ Woods iTunes MySpace
  6. 21st Century Breakdown/ Green Day iTunes MySpace
  7. Summertime Clothes / Animal Collective iTunes MySpace
  8. Chillin' / Wale ft. Lady Gaga iTunes MySpace
  9. Borderline/ Flaming Lips iTunes MySpace
  10. Catch and Release / Silversun Pickups iTunes MySpace
  11. Zero / Yeah Yeah Yeahs iTunes MySpace
  12. Psychic City/ YACHT iTunes MySpace
  13. Kind of a Girl / Tinted Windows iTunes MySpace
  14. Cheerleader / Grizzly Bear iTunes MySpace
  15. From the Hips / Cursive iTunes MySpace
  16. Murder City / Green Day iTunes MySpace
  17. Walking on a Dream / Empire of the Sun iTunes MySpace
  18. Seaside / Kestrels iTunes MySpace
  19. Satellite Skin / Modest Mouse iTunes MySpace
  20. Statues / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah iTunes MySpace
  21. Skeletons / Yeah Yeah Yeahs iTunes MySpace
  22. Buddy / Iran iTunes MySpace
  23. Radio Kaliningrad / Handsome Furs (NEW) iTunes MySpace
  24. Houses / Great Northern iTunes MySpace
  25. I Want You to Know/ Dinosaur Jr. iTunes MySpace
  26. Devotion / Viva Voce iTunes MySpace
  27. Heavy Cross / The Gossip iTunes MySpace
  28. Fire / Kasabian iTunes MySpace
  29. Stay Wide Awake / Eminem iTunes MySpace
  30. Kinda Like a Big Deal / Clipse ft. Kanye West iTunes MySpace
  31. Now We Can See / The Thermals iTunes MySpace
  32. Shimmer and Shine / Ben Harper & the Relentless 7 iTunes MySpace
  33. Raindrops / Basement Jaxx iTunes MySpace
  34. Sacred Trickster / Sonic Youth iTunes MySpace
  35. Who's Asking? / Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band iTunes MySpace
  36. 100 Little Curses / Street Sweeper Social Club iTunes MySpace
  37. Cemetery Songs / The Archibalds iTunes MySpace
  38. Night Lights / Golden Bear iTunes MySpace
  39. Since We've Been Wrong / The Mars Volta (NEW) iTunes MySpace
  40. Dream City / Free Energy (NEW) iTunes MySpace

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