PIX PENTHOUSE?: Any fan of alternative rock music surely can't forget The Pixies, the Boston band who released four full-length albums between 1988 and 1991 before breaking up. They reunited in 2004 and have released mainly live albums of their many concerts.
"Monkey Goes To Heaven", "Velouria", and "Letter to Memphis" are just three well-known (in alt--rock circles anyway), all hit the top ten of Billboard's Modern Rock chart. Now along comes a new single "Bagboy" which debuts at #59 (although it was on the Tremors list last week). I was pretty much blown away by this. Maybe because I don't hear distorted guitars much these days. Four minutes and 53 seconds of rock like you don't here it too much. I have to admit I never followed them closely back in their heyday, but after hearing this and loving it, maybe it's time to revisit some of their earlier material. Great stuff!
SMILE AGAIN: The next highest debut is "True Love", by Pink, the fourth single from her successful album The Truth About Love. I've heard this album many times (my wife has this in her car and plays it often), and in the almost three-year history of SNS, this is one of the most successful albums, song-performance wise, with two #1's and a #2 so far (the latest Grace Potter album matched this feat as well). This also is a very good song, and what I didn't know about this before is the featured vocalist. Brit Lily Allen appears with Pink on this one; just a few months ago I was wondering whatever happened to her. She had my #1 song of 2007, "Smile", and then a 2009 follow-up "The Fear". She's shied away from recording the last few years, just appearing as featured vocalist on other's records. The song itself, though, is monthly Pink, and I can't really hear Allen until the bridge of the song. It is then when I realized how much I missed that voice of hers. It is another winner, however. It looks like Top 40 isn't going with this one unlike her three former top 10's off the album, which is too bad. But look for this in my top 20 soon enough. And let's hope Lily Allen puts out her own album soon.
THICKE OF THE NIGHT: Yes, I'm very late to join the party, but I just added Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines", which features T.I., and Pharrell Williams, most recently heard as the vocalist on Daft Punk's "Get Lucky". This is one of those songs that nags you at first, and only when you've heard it a few times, you get to tolerate it (which is much better than the other way around). Even after I began liking it, I had no idea who was the artist. Then again, I also saw this a top the Hot 100 (8 weeks as of this writing); it was just a matter of putting two and two together. The song has a Justin Timberlake-like feel (that's who I originally thought it was). If this is the new face of Top 40 music, I can live it with, there's much worse out there. I'll probably move this one up quickly, just like another "late bloomer", Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven", earlier this year.
SUMMER ANTHEM: While it appears that "Blurred Lines" will be this year's "song of the summer" much like "Call Me Maybe" was last year, it's apparent that the SNS honors may well go to Paul Czekaj's "At the Beach", which holds at #1 for a third week. Every time I post this video (three times now) I get some great reaction to it, and many have said it is their summer 2013 song as well. Then again, we're from Jersey and love the beach. But still...
LONGEVITY: Golden Void's "The Curve" hangs onto the chart at #97 in its 40th week. It thus becomes the fifth song to pass or equal that mark. The others are "Pumped Up Kicks", Foster the People (45 weeks), "Rolling in the Deep", Adele (44), "Lights", Ellie Goulding (41), and "Junk of the Heart (Happy)", The Kooks, (40). While the first three of these stayed on because I jumped on them early then watched them become top 3 hits months later, and The Kooks had some chart action and had the "friend association" thing going on , the Golden Void feat is remarkable in that it didn't make any chart, and no friends talked about it (aside from a remark or two when I posted it), or ever posted it themselves. I discovered this song on the "RCRD LBL" site which seems to be inactive lately. I associated the song back in October during Hurricane Sandy, to me it was kind of a pick me up of sorts, and I loved its retroness. Its longevity stems from the fact that I simply never tired of the song.
Scenes 'n' Soundwaves 100
July 21, 2013
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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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NUMBER ONE:
PAUL CZEKAJ
"At the Beach"
(Single Only)
(3 weeks at #1)
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6
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2
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3
|
Foxygen - San Francisco
|
14
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3
|
5
|
Omnia Hegazy - Aziza
|
10
|
4
|
6
|
Phoenix - Trying to Be Cool
|
7
|
5
|
4
|
New Politics - Harlem
|
21
|
6
|
7
|
Cayucas - High School Lover
|
8
|
7
|
2
|
Daft Punk f. Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky
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13
|
8
|
9
|
The Thermals - I Go Alone
|
7
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9
|
8
|
Portugal. the Man - Evil Friends
|
10
|
10
|
15
|
Wild Belle - Keep You
|
20
|
11
|
13
|
Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful
|
8
|
12
|
14
|
Kurt Vile - Waking on A Pretty Day
|
9
|
13
|
18
|
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Under the Earth
|
6
|
14
|
17
|
Neko Case - Man
|
6
|
15
|
12
|
Fitz and the Tantrums - Out of My League
|
23
|
16
|
19
|
KT Tunstall- Feel It All
|
7
|
17
|
11
|
Matthew Koma - Parachute
|
14
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18
|
10
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Calvin Harris f. Florence Welch - Sweet Nothing
|
16
|
19
|
26
|
TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK:
MATCHBOX TWENTY
"Our Song"
Album: North
|
10
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20
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23
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I Am Dynamite - Hey Girl
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6
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21
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16
|
Golden Void - Shady Grove
|
19
|
22
|
36
|
Train - Bruises
|
4
|
23
|
21
|
Rihanna - Stay
|
13
|
24
|
32
|
Case Studies - Everything
|
6
|
25
|
37
|
Paramore - Still Into You
|
4
|
26
|
42
|
Sara Bareilles - Brave
|
7
|
27
|
20
|
Rachel Allyn -October
|
13
|
28
|
28
|
Dirty Beaches - I Dream In Neon
|
9
|
29
|
30
|
Candice Glover - I Am Beautiful
|
8
|
30
|
25
|
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
|
22
|
31
|
34
|
Dan Croll - From Nowhere
|
15
|
32
|
24
|
The Veils - Through the Deep Dark Wood
|
16
|
33
|
47
|
MOVER OF THE WEEK:
LANA DEL REY
"Summertime Sadness"
Album: Born To Die
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2
|
34
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27
|
Lana Del Rey - Ride
|
24
|
35
|
22
|
Hanson - Get the Girl Back
|
16
|
36
|
35
|
Mayer Hawthorne - Her Favorite Song
|
6
|
37
|
41
|
Portugal. The Man - Purple Yellow Red & Blue
|
4
|
38
|
29
|
Waaves - Demon to Lean On
|
9
|
39
|
39
|
ZZ Ward - 365 Days
|
5
|
40
|
43
|
Palma Violets - Best of Friends
|
5
|
41
|
33
|
Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire
|
17
|
42
|
31
|
Serena Ryder - Stompa
|
19
|
43
|
46
|
Atlas Genius - If So
|
6
|
44
|
45
|
Little Green Cars - Harper Lee
|
7
|
45
|
56
|
Silversun Pickups - Dots and Dashes
|
3
|
46
|
44
|
Plain White T's - Should've Gone to Bed
|
8
|
47
|
53
|
Jay Arner - Don't Remind Me
|
13
|
48
|
61
|
Foxygen - No Destruction
|
2
|
49
|
52
|
Maroon 5 - Love Somebody
|
8
|
50
|
38
|
Paul Czekaj - Even Better Than Before
|
15
|
51
|
49
|
Michael Franti and Spearhead - I'm Alive
|
10
|
52
|
70
|
Bruno Mars - Treasure
|
2
|
53
|
50
|
Pepper - Fkarnd
|
6
|
54
|
54
|
Swedish House Mafia f. John Martin - Don't You Worry Child
|
10
|
55
|
60
|
fun. - Why Am I The One
|
3
|
56
|
55
|
Mumford and Sons - Babel
|
7
|
57
|
48
|
The Black Angels - Don't Play With Guns
|
10
|
58
|
59
|
Grouplove - Ways to Go
|
4
|
59
|
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TOP DEBUT:
THE PIXIES
"Bagboy"
(Single Only)
|
1
|
60
|
51
|
Alabama Shakes - Hang Loose
|
17
|
61
|
57
|
Phillip Phillips - Gone Gone Gone
|
23
|
62
|
63
|
Tame Impala - Elephant
|
5
|
63
|
65
|
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
|
33
|
64
|
66
|
Smallpools - Dreaming
|
3
|
65
|
40
|
Churchill - The War Within
|
10
|
66
|
58
|
Delta Rae - If I Loved You
|
7
|
67
|
74
|
The Neighborhood - Afraid
|
5
|
68
|
75
|
Blake Shelton - Boys 'Round Here
|
3
|
69
|
69
|
Ben Howard - Keep Your Head Up
|
8
|
70
|
88
|
Foals - My Number
|
3
|
71
|
81
|
Florida Georgia Line - Cruise
|
3
|
72
|
90
|
Calvin Harris f. Ellie Goulding - I Need Your Love
|
2
|
73
|
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|
Pink f. Lily Allen - True Love
|
1
|
74
|
72
|
MS MR - Hurricane
|
8
|
75
|
78
|
Crystal Fighters - You and I
|
10
|
76
|
80
|
Nine Inch Nails - Came Back Wanted
|
3
|
77
|
87
|
Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel
|
3
|
78
|
93
|
Civil Wars - The One That Got Away
|
2
|
79
|
----
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Robin Thicke f. T.I. & Pharrel Williams - Blurred Lines
|
1
|
80
|
62
|
Pink f. Nate Ruess - Just Give Me A Reason
|
20
|
81
|
86
|
Anna Kendrick - Cups
|
3
|
82
|
92
|
Volbeat - The Hangman's Body Count
|
2
|
83
|
----
|
Franz Ferdinand - Right Action
|
1
|
84
|
79
|
Jamie N Commons - Rumble & Sway
|
10
|
85
|
----
|
Pearl Jam - Mind Your Mannors
|
1
|
86
|
67
|
The Satelliters - Gonna Get Away
|
16
|
87
|
64
|
Local Natives - Heavy Feet
|
19
|
88
|
71
|
Emeli Sande - Next To Me
|
29
|
89
|
73
|
Leila - Monday
|
20
|
90
|
84
|
Daughter - Human
|
4
|
91
|
82
|
Muse - Panic Station
|
13
|
92
|
----
|
Alt-J - Breezblocks
|
1
|
93
|
68
|
Palma Violets - Last of the Summer Wine
|
17
|
94
|
96
|
Ariana Grande - The Way
|
2
|
95
|
----
|
Lumineers - Submaries
|
1
|
96
|
----
|
Passenger - Let Her Go
|
1
|
97
|
89
|
Golden Void - The Curve
|
40
|
98
|
83
|
Savages - She Will
|
6
|
99
|
----
|
Gentleman Hall - Sail Into the Sun
|
1
|
100
|
76
|
Pageants - August Moon
|
14
|
TREMORS:
101. Jack Johnson, I Got You
102. The Natural, Demons
103. The Lone Bellow, Bleeding Out
104. Chvrches, Recover
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