Scenes 'n' Soundwaves: Not Too Much Going On (SNS Week of 7/24/2016)

Drifting behind. Although I have much to say, it's going to be in the next few blogs, but in brief, here's what I've been listening to in late July.

Red Hot Chili Peppers stay at the top, for a third week, with local favorites Paul Czekaj and Us Commoners in the 2nd and 3rd position, and Kaleo's big alt-rock hit dropping a notch to #4.   "Way Down We Go" is top 3 alternative, behind Blink 182, which here, inches a bit closer to the SNS top 20, and the Chili Peppers, which finally attain Billboard's #1 alternative ranking to go with that distinction here.

Fitz & the Tantrums' album cut "Complicated" makes a huge leap as the song leaps from #35 to #7, becoming the band's 14th consecutive top 20 song on my blog.    Like "HandClap", which remains in the top 5, this is a rather quirky song, and the jury is still out on whether I like the direction this band has taken; which is a far cry from their awesome debut Picking Up the Pieces.   But it still has traces of the band that I love, and of course, I will continue to explore further songs from their third, self-titled album.

The Revivalists get their first top 10 with "Wish I Knew You", while Pink is the lone representative of the pop world has "Just Like Fire" becomes her fifth top 10 on my chart.   M83 takes a big jump into the top 20 with their "Go", and Mayer Hawthorne makes a bit of a "comeback" into the top echelon with the Hall & Oates-inspired "Cosmic Love".

A post by my friend Gail Bradley propels Adele's "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" from #20 to #13; the song reaches the top 10 of Billboard's Hot 100. Further down, local fave The Billy Spanton Band has the mover of the week with "Shake Your Soul", and Phoebe Ryan, with a cool article on her in Rolling Stone and an "endorsement" of sorts from Taylor Swift, gets a boost with "Chronic", 63 to 43..

There are no new singles announced from the original Santana band's reunion album Santana IV after "Anywhere You Want to Go", so I am exploring the album further and came up with a nice bluesy number, the aptly-titled "Blues Magic" which gives me flashbacks of "Samba Pa Ti".   A great effort. Also debuting are two bands from the recent WNTI Stage, The Doughboys and The Grip Weeds, as well as SNS veterans Two Door Cinema Club and Leon Bridges.

Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100

July 24, 2016

This Week	Last Week	ARTIST-Title	Weeks on List
1	1	NUMBER ONE: RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS "Dark Necessities" Album: The Getaway (3 weeks at #1)	9
2	2	Paul Czekaj - That Old New Jersey	7
3	4	Us Commoners - The Hot Spot	7
4	3	Kaleo - Way Down We Go●	18
5	5	Fitz and the Tantrums - HandClap●	14
6	6	Trent Harmon - Falling	11
7	35	TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK: FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS "Complicated" Album: Fitz and the Tantrums	3
8	8	Cage the Elephant - Trouble	8
9	12	The Revivalists - Wish I Knew You	9
10	15	Pink - Just Like Fire	6
11	14	Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - I Need Never Get Old	11
12	11	Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - No Love Like Yours	14
13	20	Adele - Send My Love (To Your New Lover)	7
14	38	M83 - Go	4
15	7	The Heavy - Since You Been Gone	12
16	9	Ray Lamontagne - Hey No Pressure	17
17	24	Mayer Hawthorne - Cosmic Love	11
18	19	Awolnation - Woman Woman	11
19	10	Rachel Allyn - Next Year's Girl	12
20	13	Smash Palace - My Mistake●	16

21	22	Blink 182 - Bored to Death	6
22	25	Bishop Briggs- River	9
23	28	Flume f Andrew Wyatt- Some Minds	6
24	17	Collective Soul - Contagious	12
25	30	Beck - Wow	6
26	41	Finish Ticket - Color	5
27	16	The Parlor - The Surgeon's Knife●	17
28	29	Kongos - Take It From Me	7
29	33	City and Colour - Wasted Love	7
30	32	Nada Surf - Believe You're Mine	13
31	52	MOVER OF THE WEEK: BILLY SPANTON BAND "Shake Your Soul" Album: Matter of Pride	3
32	36	Charles Kelley- Lonely Girl	11
33	18	Garbage - Empty	10
34	21	Avid Dancer - I Feel It●	21
35	26	Santigold - Can't Get Enough of Myself	17
36	40	The Dreamers - Drugs	10
37	44	The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra	5
38	46	BORNS - American Money	7
39	23	Strumbella - Spirits	20
40	27	The Thermals - Hey You	12
41	34	Mutemath - Light Up	14
42	48	Twenty-One Pilots - Ride	10
43	61	Phoebe Ryan - Chronic	4
44	31	Paul Czekaj - Up In the Sky	13
45	55	Pop Etc. - What Am I Becoming	9
46	65	Young the Giant - Something to Believe In	3
47	42	The Joy Formidable - The Last Thing on My Mind	19
48	53	Greeting Committee - Hands Down	6
49	63	Foals - What Went Down	3
50	37	Young the Giant - Amerika	11
51	39	Meghan Trainor - NO	12
52	43	Run River North - Run or Hide	19
53	58	Parquet Courts - Dust	8
54	57	The Veils - Axoloti	6
55	51	Palma Violets - Matador	8
56	62	Death Cab for Cutie - Good Help	5
57	64	Hozier - Better Love	4
58	71	The Blossoms - At Most A Kiss	4
59	54	Weezer - King of the World	9
60	49	Foals - Give It All●	21
61	47	Wild Belle - Throw Down Your Guns	13
62	67	Calvin Harris f Rhianna - This Is What You Came For	5
63	45	Santana - Anywhere You Want to Go	15
64	69	Langhorn Slim and the Law - Spirit Moves	6
65	70	Band of Horses - Casual Party	5
66	50	Demi Lovato - Confident	15
67	74	The Monkees - She Makes Me Laugh	5
68	83	Barns Courtney - Fire	3
69	76	Goo Goo Dolls - So Alive	4
70	89	Coin - Talk Too Much	2
71	56	Elle King - America's Sweetheart	12
72	80	The Strokes - Oblivius	3
73	66	The Lumineers - Ophelia	17
74	98	Amos Lee - Vaporize	2
75	---	TOP DEBUT: SANTANA "Blues Magic" Album: Santana IV	1
76	59	Atlas Genius - Stockholm	10
77	73	Beth Orton - 1973	5
78	82	Coldplay - Hymn For the Weekend	4
79	60	Mike Posner - I Took a Pill in Ibiza	20
80	88	Chris Stapleton - Nobody to Blame	4
81	84	The Avett Brothers - Ain't No Man	7
82	99	DMA's - Too Soon	2
83	90	DNCE - Cake By the Ocean	22
84	97	Phantogram- You Don't Get Me High Anymore	2
85	96	Disturbed - The Sound of Silence	4
86	101	The Doughboys - For Your Love	1
87	68	Declan McKenna - Brazil	18
88	81	Best Coast - In My Eyes	14
89	102	The Grip Weeds - Rainbow Quartz	1
90	75	Golden Void - The Beacon	19
91	93	Banners - Shine a Light	13
92	94	Galactic - Right On	8
93	72	Matt Simons - Catch and Release	13
94	---	Two Door Cinema Club - Are We Ready (Wreck)	1
95	78	Halo Circus with Allison Iraheta - Desire	14
96	95	Chef Special - In Your Arms	12
97	77	Half Moon Run - Turn Your Love●	29
98	---	Leon Bridges - Better Man	1
99	91	Tokyo Police Club - Not My Girl	13
100	92	Elle King - Under the Influence●	23