The Water Days Are...Still Here (Music Review 10/10/2011)

First up, I wanted to thank everyone for their comments about my blog last week, that really helped deal with things and am glad that read it.    Between that, and our vacation in Cape Cod, it has been a tumultuous week and a half, thus I apologize for this week's delay.   So without further adieu, let's get on with it...

Last week's new #1, and holding that position this week is "What the Water Gave Me", from Florence + the Machine.   I didn't hear any new music on the trip, thus this one remained in my head much of the time.    It's Florence's second #1 on my chart; following "Dog Days Are Over" (from their previous set, Lungs), one intervening song, "You Got the Love", hit #5.   The album, Ceremonials, drops on Halloween.  It appears that radio is already playing the next single, "Shake It Out".  I will add that one next week as Florence and the gang go for four in a row.    Saturday, October 15 (today as I am writing this), they will be at the Clams Casino Festival, under the Manhattan Bridge on the Brooklyn side, in New York City.   Seems to be a nice day to check that one out.

Elsewhere, aside from the Dum Dum Girls', "Coming Down", which I talked about last week, jumping again from #11 to #5, it's been a pretty quiet week (again since I was away and didn't listen to much music), the only other mover is "What's Become of Us" by the very talented Omnia, entering at #19.

ENTERING:   All of the debuts this week are from acts that have been on my chart before....except for the Top Debut.   That would be "The Walk" by Mayer Hawthorne.  The singer is from Michigan, growing up in Ann Arbor, and is yet another example of this soul revival which has been slowly seeping into our consciousness this year, between Fitz & the Tantrums and Plan B.   I had never heard of this guy until this week, but he's been around for a few years.   Ann Arbor is just outside of Detroit, which may explain that soul influence.   Apparnetly, growing up, he would listen, with his father, much of the classic soul and jazz sounds that came from this region.  Isaac Hayes and Barry White are among his influences, and his music also has a bit of Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield thrown in for good measure.   He recently guested on a single by Detroit legend Dennis Coffey (of "Scorpio" fame).   I can hear some of the Memphis sound in his music as well.    And, in keeping with the current revival, he had been introduced to his record label head by his mutual friend Noelle Scaggs--currently the singer in Fitz & the Tantrums.

"The Walk" appears on his new album, his second, entitled How Do You Do? which came out this week. Check him out on November 4 and 5 when he comes to Terminal 5 in New York City.

Also debuting are the third single from Foo Fighters' Wasting Light set, "These Days".    The first two single both hit my top 20, with "Rope" hitting my top spot earlier this year.   In fact, both "Rope" and the second single "Walk" have topped Billboard's Alternative chart, with the latter still there, for roughly 25 weeks this year.   The Foos will be in this area, as they play November 13 at Madison Square Garden, and Newark's Prudential Center the following evening.  

Sleeper Agent's "That's My Baby" (Brian Sniatkowski's Song of the Week), its follow up to the #40-peaking "Get It Daddy",  Sara Bareilles "Gonna Get Over You" (an upbeat follow to "Uncharted" which DID chart here at #47), and "Book of James" by We Are Augustines, their follow-up to the top 20 "Chapel Song".

TOP OF THE POPS:  Before I go, I just want to mention that for the last several weeks, "Someone Like You" by Adele,  "Moves Like Jagger" by Maroon 5, and "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People have been 1-2-3 on the Billboard Hot 100.    They're still on my chart, with a combined 94 weeks between them.   Who says I'm out of touch with the current pop scene?

Scenes 'n' Soundwaves for the week of October 10, 2011:

This Week	Last Week	ARTIST-Title	Weeks on List
1	1	FLORENCE + THE MACHINE "What the Water Gave Me" Album: Ceremonials (2 weeks at #1)	8
2	3	Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside - I Swear	8
3	2	The Kooks - Junk of the Heart	14
4	5	Death Cab For Cutie - Stay Young Go Dancing	10
5	11	MOVER OF THE WEEK:   DUM DUM GIRLS "Coming Down" Album: Only In Dreams	3
6	7	Rachel Allyn - Lovely Lily	8
7	4	Fitz and the Tantrums - Pickin' Up the Pieces	11
8	8	The Big Troubles - Bite Yr Tongue	9
9	10	Anna Calvi - Blackout	9
10	9	Michelle Branch - Loud Music	14
11	6	Wilco - I Might	12
12	12	Bush - The Sound of Winter	10
13	13	Plan B- Love Goes Down	16
14	17	Thom Sebastian & the Hounds of Winter - Not Broken	7
15	18	Cage the Elephant - Aberdeen	7
16	20	Best Coast - Our Deal	5
17	19	Imelda May - Mayhem	7
18	16	SuperHeavy - Miracle Worker	12
19	38	TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK:   OMNIA "What's Become of Us?" Album:  The Jailbird EP	3
20	15	Best Coast - Something In The Way	17

21	14	Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie	13
22	27	Mister Heavenly - Mister Heavenly	9
23	28	Surfer Blood- Swim	10
24	26	Oberhofer - Gotta Go	7
25	29	Dom - Happy Birthday Party	5
26	22	Macy Gray - Kissed It	9
27	46	Sarah Jean - Hometown	4
28	33	Cults - Go Outside	8
29	21	Avi Buffalo - How Come	16
30	25	The Airborne Toxic Event - All I Ever Wanted	10
31	40	Adele - I'll Be Waiting	5
32	23	The Jayhawks - She Walks In So Many Ways	11
33	49	Stephen Malkus and the Jicks - Tigers	4
34	32	Trevor Hall - Brand New Day	12
35	24	Lykke Li - Rich Kids Blues	12
36	36	The Drums - Money	8
37	37	Man Man - Knuckle Down	6
38	45	Carolina Liar - Drown	6
39	42	Lady Gaga - You and I	7
40	52	Coldplay - Paradise	5
41	54	Snow Patrol - Called Out In the Dark	5
42	31	Maroon 5 f. Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger	13
43	30	Fitz and the Tantrums - Don't Gotta Work It Out	12
44	39	Grouplove - Colours	12
45	55	Needtobreathe - Drive All Night	6
46	53	Little Dragon - Shuffle a Dream	7
47	51	Bell X1 - 4 Minute Mile	6
48	41	Adele - Someone Like You	25
49	56	Thompson Square - I Got You	7
50	34	The Antlers - Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out	11
51	35	Los Lonely Boys - 16 Monkeys	13
52	43	Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean	22
53	61	Washed Out - Eyes Be Closed	5
54	69	Omnia - Grace	3
55	47	Brilliant Colors - Value Lines	14
56	60	Kate Voegele - Sandcastles	6
57	65	Scars on 45 - Heart on Fire	4
58	44	Adele - Set Fire To the Rain	15
59	50	Rachel Allyn - Say Hello To Goodbye	20
60	57	Mutemath - Blood Pressure	10
61	48	PJ Harvey - Let England Shake	13
62	64	Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks	38
63	66	Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman - It Begins Tonight	5
64	68	Paul Czekaj - My Home New Jersey	4
65	67	Gillian Welch - The Way It Goes	7
66	70	Rachel Platten - 1,000 Ships	3
67	59	Incubus - Promises, Promises	13
68	58	Foster the People - Helena Beat	14
69	62	Kelly Clarkson - Mr. Know It All	6
70	---	TOP DEBUT:   MAYER HAWTHORNE "The Walk" Album: How Do You Do?	1
71	79	St. Vincent - Cruel	3
72	75	Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse - Body and Soul	3
73	78	Beirut - Santa Fe	3
74	74	White Denim - Drug	7
75	82	Duran Duran - Leave A Light On	2
76	83	Ellie Goulding - Lights	2
77	91	Daughtry - Crawling Back to You	2
78	77	Sublime with Rome - Take It Or Leave It	5
79	87	Fruit Bats - Tangle and Ray	2
80	63	Evanescence - What You Want	8
81	71	The Rosebuds - Second Bird of Paradise	10
82	73	O.A.R.- Heaven	11
83	----	Foo Fighters - These Days	1
84	89	Parachute - Kiss Me Slowly	3
85	----	Sleeper Agent- That's My Baby	1
86	----	Sara Bareilles - Gonna Get Over You	1
87	76	Florence + the Machine - You Got the Love	22
88	84	Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - If I Had a Gun	3
89	90	Blitzen Trapper - Love the Way You Walk Away	3
90	95	Dawes - Time Spent in Los Angeles	2
91	----	We Are Augustines - Book of James	1
92	72	Katy Perry - Last Friday Night	18
93	81	Adele - Rolling In the Deep	44
94	86	Foo Fighters - Walk	18
95	93	Teddybears - Rocket Scientist	3
96	94	Ryan Adams - Lucky Now	3
97	88	Blue October - The Chills	5
98	97	The Horrors - Still Life	3
99	----	Funeral Party - NYC Moves to the Sound of LA	1
100	85	Zac Brown Band f Jimmy Buffet - Knee Deep	23

Tremors:

101. Blink-182, Up All Night
102. Kopecky Family Band, Howling At the Moon