My original idea for this was because I had fallen out of touch with the current music scene. I was pretty much turned off by some of the pop stuff, as well as things that were played on the radio. Top 40 fell into a state of disrepair; there wasn't any commercial Alternative rock station worth listening to, and I was too busy just to sit down and listen to anything new. I must have had some sort of ADD. I was still making monthly CD's of new songs, but I never heard them on the radio, and in many cases, I had never heard them, but purchased and downloaded them anyway.
At the end of every year, I would always make a list of my favorite 100 songs of the year, but by 2004, I couldn't do it anymore. I'd be making lists of songs I heard a grand total of one time. I knew the pop music scene deteriorated, but I always used to seek out some of the more obscure stuff out there, so I knew it wasn't true at all.
Enter Facebook. A platform that I embraced in September 2008, but had no idea of its power. People I used to work with in the 1990's knew I loved music but it never spread beyond several people in my circles of friends. But now, there's this platform with tons of people on there. About a month or so, I was listening and watching the top 20 videos on VH-1 and came across a couple of great songs, "Green Light" by John Legend and "Chasing Pavements" by Adele. WOW. Saw the latter on Saturday Night Live that evening and was blown away. Thus Adele was the first artists I "LIKE"-d and the first video I ever posted. I said to myself, "what a great idea to share with people".
But still, I didn't do too much about it. 2008 ended and 2009 started. I continued downloading songs without listening to them on the radio, making my monthly CD's. I posted a few more songs on Facebook that I actually liked, and a few people would comment on it, but that was basically it. Maybe a comment on friends who posted songs I like, but I still never realized the power.
By the end of 2009, traditionally a time of year to reflected on the past twelve months, I realized something. At this point I had about 200 Facebook friends, and many of them were into music. Quite a while ago, when there was just e-mail, I attached a spreadsheet of my Top 100 of the year in hopes of getting comments. I got none. But now, on Facebook, there's a captive audience. So I thought, maybe do this thing again. So I put my one hundred favorite songs in a Facebook note. The response was overwhelming. Comments from those who remembered my original lists (as well as my taped "broadcasts" counting down the songs, back in the day). Some who pointed out songs which missed my lists, as well as just to say "good job". So, as 2010 started, I had mulled over the possibility of doing more.
During the first half of 2010, I was really getting into my monthly CD's....it seemed that a lot of good songs that I was finding. My mid-summer, The Black Keys, a band that I loved for several years, but really didn't get any widespread airplay, had come out with a song "Tighten Up", from their then-latest Brothers collection. WOW. Add to that some previously undiscovered gems (Neko Case), and new bands I was getting into (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals), along with some surprisingly good pop stuff (Lady Gaga's "Alejandro"; LaRoux's "Bulletproof", and Mike Posner's "Cooler Than Me"), and actually hearing some of it on the radio, and I did something about it. I started a blog, the first, raw presentation is still available, and which I will repost on the actual anniversary date.
Over the next two years, it became somewhat of a labor of love. I found that many of my friends were also into new music, much of it that I was into, so it just made me do this even more. In April 2011, I moved it into the Blogger platform and posting links to it on Facebook. Though I rarely get feedback on the blog itself (a few LIKEs at the most), I get a lot of hits on it every week; in fact, it reached the 5000-view mark last week. To see some of my early blogs, go to my wall (no, I don't have timeline yet), and click on notes. They are all there under various names as I tried to come up with a catchy name before settling on SNS now. Just recently, I created a page on Facebook to post and discuss mostly new music and also post a link to my blog.
As far as the what the future holds, as long as people read it, I will blog it. In the coming weeks I will relay some more of my experiences in which music was involved. Popular music, at least has started to become more diversified again, what with the successes of artists like Adele, Foster the People, Grouplove, fun., Gotye, Ellie Goulding and several others. The Lumineers, Mumford & Sons, Fleet Foxes, Arcade Fire, Florence + the Machine, The Decemberists and many others, are just the tip of the iceberg, and together, we'll explore the ever-changing trends in music as well as to salute the past.
QUICKLY: Pink furthers her lead on the number one position as the ever-catchy "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" stays at the top for a second week, in spite of oozing out of the top 10 (temporarily, hopefully) on Billboard's Hot 100. Foxygen, Dignan Porch, and the Avett Brothers make big strides within or into the top 20.
Some good debuts this week, including the new Mumford & Sons, "I Will Wait"...it debuts high on several rock charts, as well at #23 on the Hot 100, another good sign for music like this. I admit that it took me a while to get into this group, as three songs from their last effort, only made it into the lower SNS reaches. But, my friends love them and I am gradually warming up to them as well. The song picks up where they left off with their previous effort. Babel is their new set which drops next month.
An intriguing new song is my Top Debut, "Elizabeth's Theme" by Dirty Beaches, which is actually one artist, Alex Zhang Hugtai from Montreal, now based on Vancouver. Normally into the goth-rock genre, this song, is an easy, relaxing, good for what-ails-ya instrumental that borders on new-age. It's something to track in the coming weeks. I've been pretty much stressed out on many levels lately, so this song really is timely.
SCENES'N'SOUNDWAVES 100 for Week of August 13, 2012:
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This Week
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Last Week
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ARTIST-Title
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Weeks on List
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1
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1
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P!NK
"Blow Me (One Last Kiss)"
Album: The Truth About Love
(2 weeks at #1)
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6
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2
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3
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The Heavy - What Makes A Good Man
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8
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3
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2
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Trails and Ways - Nunca
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12
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4
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7
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The Black Keys - Little Black Submarine
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9
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5
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5
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Best Coast - The Only Place
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13
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6
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18
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Foxygen - Make It Known
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4
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7
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14
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Dignan Porch - Picking Up Dust
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5
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8
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22
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TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK:
THE AVETT BROTHERS
"Live And Die"
Album: The Carpenter
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5
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9
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4
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M83 - Reunion
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13
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10
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6
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The Kooks - Is It Me
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12
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11
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12
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Phillip Phillips - Home
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12
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|
12
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13
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Beach House - Lazuli
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10
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|
13
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15
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Kelly Clarkson - Dark Side
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11
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|
14
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9
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Mayer Hawthorne - Henny and Gingerale
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14
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15
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8
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Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - That's What's Up
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16
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16
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16
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Fun. - Some Nights
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20
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|
17
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10
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Oberhofer - Away From You
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17
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18
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20
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The Raveonettes - Observations
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7
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19
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11
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Grace Potter & the Nocturnals - Never Go Back
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18
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|
20
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21
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Matchbox Twenty - She's So Mean
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9
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|
21
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17
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The Shins- The Rifle's Spiral
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19
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|
22
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31
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Two Door Cinema Club - Sleep Alone
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4
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23
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19
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Linkin Park - Burn It Down
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16
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|
24
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30
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The Royal Concept - Gimme Twice
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8
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|
25
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24
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Those Darlins - Screws Get Loose
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23
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|
26
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29
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Ty Segall - I Brought My Eyes
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11
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|
27
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23
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Gossip - Move in the Right Direction
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9
|
|
28
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33
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Grassfight - Look Homeward Heathen
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6
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|
29
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34
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Of Monsters and Men - Mountain Sound
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9
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|
30
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36
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Emeli Sande - Next To Me
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8
|
|
31
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42
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The Killers - Runaways
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5
|
|
32
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40
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Green Day - Oh Love
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4
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|
33
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25
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Metric - Youth Without Youth
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16
|
|
34
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27
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Maroon 5 - Come Away To the Water
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21
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|
35
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32
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Wolf Gang - The King and All His Men
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11
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|
36
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28
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Gotye f. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used to Know
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30
|
|
37
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38
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Gotye - Eyes Wide Open
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17
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|
38
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26
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Graffiti6 - Stare Into the Sun
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14
|
|
39
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44
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Meiko - Leave the Lights On
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7
|
|
40
|
45
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A Place to Bury Strangers - You Are the One
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5
|
|
41
|
60
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Basement Batman - On A Streak
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3
|
|
42
|
50
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The Features - Another One
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6
|
|
43
|
58
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Grouplove - Itchin' On A Photograph
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2
|
|
44
|
51
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Weeks - The House We Grew Up In
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7
|
|
45
|
54
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The Mungers - B School
|
6
|
|
46
|
53
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No Doubt - Settle Down
|
4
|
|
47
|
37
|
The Wombats - Jump Into the Fog
|
23
|
|
48
|
41
|
Public Image Ltd - One Drop
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8
|
|
49
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43
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The Gaslight Anthem - 45
|
12
|
|
50
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76
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MOVER OF THE WEEK:
REBECCA FERGUSON
"Nothing's Real But Love"
Album: Heaven
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2
|
|
51
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39
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Dawes - If I Wanted Someone
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8
|
|
52
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35
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Passion Pit - Take A Walk
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13
|
|
53
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48
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Train - 50 Ways to Say Goodbye
|
10
|
|
54
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47
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Ty Segall & White Fence - I Am Not A Game
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21
|
|
55
|
55
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Grouplove - Tongue Tied
|
35
|
|
56
|
57
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Electric Guest - This Head I Hold
|
24
|
|
57
|
46
|
The Beach Boys - That's Why God Made the Radio
|
10
|
|
58
|
52
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Florence + the Machine - No Light, No Light
|
31
|
|
59
|
65
|
Dr. Dog - Lonesome
|
9
|
|
60
|
67
|
Chromatics - Into the Black
|
3
|
|
61
|
56
|
Lost n the Trees - Golden Eyelids
|
19
|
|
62
|
71
|
Joanna Burns - Simply Speak
|
3
|
|
63
|
49
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Eve6 - Victoria
|
22
|
|
64
|
64
|
Florence + the Machine - Never Let Me Go
|
23
|
|
65
|
75
|
Snow Patrol - In the End
|
3
|
|
66
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61
|
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
|
11
|
|
67
|
66
|
Ellie Goulding - Lights
|
30
|
|
68
|
59
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Eric Hutchinson - Watching You Watch Him
|
10
|
|
69
|
62
|
Lady Antebellum - Dancing Away With My Heart
|
21
|
|
70
|
69
|
Rome - Dedication
|
7
|
|
71
|
63
|
Silent Rider - I Was A Bomb
|
7
|
|
72
|
73
|
White Violet - Lays Around Lazy
|
11
|
|
73
|
70
|
Christina Perri f. Jason Mraz - Distance
|
4
|
|
74
|
74
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Daniel Powter - Cupid
|
5
|
|
75
|
81
|
Maroon 5 - One More Night
|
3
|
|
76
|
78
|
Aerosmith - Legendary Child
|
3
|
|
77
|
86
|
The Lumineers - Hey Ho
|
7
|
|
78
|
68
|
The Black Keys - Gold On the Ceiling
|
29
|
|
79
|
72
|
The Rapture - How Deep is Your Love
|
31
|
|
80
|
88
|
Bloc Party - Octopus
|
3
|
|
81
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----
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TOP DEBUT:
DIRTY BEACHES
"Elizabeth's Theme"
(Single Only)
|
1
|
|
82
|
----
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Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait
|
1
|
|
83
|
----
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Mayer Hawthorne - No Strings
|
1
|
|
84
|
----
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Tristan Prettymen - My Oh My
|
1
|
|
85
|
77
|
The Decemberists - One Engine
|
19
|
|
86
|
83
|
Fun. f. Janelle Monae - We Are Young
|
37
|
|
87
|
99
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Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
|
2
|
|
88
|
84
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Jack White - I'm Shaken
|
6
|
|
89
|
97
|
Dave Matthews Band - Mercy
|
21
|
|
90
|
98
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Smashing Pumpkins - Celestials
|
2
|
|
91
|
RE ENTRY |
Alex Clare - Too Close
|
12
|
|
92
|
94
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The XX - Angels
|
2
|
|
93
|
----
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Youngblood Hawke - We Come Running
|
1
|
|
94
|
92
|
Band of Horses - Knock Knock
|
4
|
|
95
|
82
|
Garbage - Blood For Poppies
|
21
|
|
96
|
80
|
Jacuzzi Boys - Automatic Jail
|
7
|
|
97
|
91
|
Toby Keith - Red Solo Cup
|
21
|
|
98
|
----
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Slightly Stoopid - Top of the World
|
1
|
|
99
|
----
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Sean Rowe - Horses
|
1
|
|
100
|
85
|
Silversun Pickups - Bloody Mary
|
20
|
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