Scenes 'n' Soundwaves: Tantrum Number 9 (SNS week of 8/14/2016)

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT.....we were all caught up, life got in the way and thus wound up taking a three week hiatus.   While I am still not sure whether to combine, skip or just pump out playlist charts during this time, for now, this will be for the week of August 14. Of course, as I write this, it's the day after Labor Day and summer is officially over.   But for those looking for my "song of the summer", no worries, it will be coming up on a future blog.   Besides, summer doesn't officially end in a couple weeks anyway.

FITZMILARITY:   Taking a look at the top of the list this week is a familiar face.   "Complicated" moves 3-1 to become Fitz and the Tantrum's 9th number one in this six year history of SNS.    No other act has more than four. Even with the quirkiness of their third, eponymous album, it's their second chart-topper from it.     "HandClap", their first #1 from the album, drops out of the top 20 this week.

M83's "Go" advances to #2, the spot they held four years ago with "Reunion", while "Dark Necessities" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, drops to #3 after a five-week run at the top. Paul Czekaj and Kaleo hold down the last two positions in the top 5, with the latter reaching #1 on the Alternative chart this chart week.

Jersey Girl-turned Californian Phoebe Ryan, one of the darlings of Taylor Swift, has the highest new entry into the top 20 with "Chronic", her third SNS top 20 song; with Santana right behind, with "Blues Magic" off of their original lineup reunion set.   Finally, Charles Kelley slips into the upper echelon with 'Lonely Girl".

RESURGING: Often, songs which are going down the chart will, for whatever reason, will start moving back up the chart.    Although they may have already peaks in my likability of the song, others will talk about, post, or the song will be moving up key national charts.   Three songs fit that description here.   Twenty-One Pilots' "Ride" regains its bullet and moves 38-30 as the song continues to get pop airplay, as well as remaining in the Alternative top 10.    "The Sound of Silence", the Simon and Garfunkel cover by Disturbed has gotten many posts by friends on Facebook, and after trolling the bottom of the list the last several weeks, jumps up to #75.    Finally, although it peaked last spring, DNCE's "Cake By the Ocean" has been referenced by many friends lately, resulting in a reverse course from 88-77.   At 25 weeks on the list, it's the oldest song on the chart, which has seen much big turnaround the last several months as no song really has had the impact that "6 AM", "Thinking Out Loud", "Ex's and Oh's" or "Gimme All Your Love" had in recent memory.

NEW: Speaking of "Ex's and Oh's", it's Elle King who has this week's Top Debut, with "Good Girls" which is from the recent remake of "Ghostbusters", the much-maligned reboot with a female cast.   This continues the revival of songs from movie soundtracks; Pink and Hozier also have songs from recent soundtracks.   King debuts at #81, followed closely by Jersey Girl Rachel Allyn, with her cover of the Buffalo Springfield chestnut, "For What It's Worth".    Rachel has been getting some notice with New York's NASH-FM country radio station at 94.7, as she is in the running to be a finalist in a national contest "Search for the Next Country Star".    Her rendition of Adele's "Hello" was well done, and she advanced to Round 2 of the competition.    Let's wish Rachel the best of luck in this competition which will award a contract with a major recording label.   Go get 'em, Rachel!

The other two debuts of note include Bluesman Ray Lamontagne's follow-up to "Hey No Pressure", a #1 SNS song, with "The Changing Man", and Paul Czekaj's latest single, "A Place I Once Called Home" also enters. The Jersey laureate now has three songs on the SNS 100 with "That Old New Jersey" and "Up in the Sky" still on the list.    Once again, Paul looks back on his growing up in the Garden State, and the many homes that were a part of growing up here.   It's another winner, for sure!

UNCOMMONER:   I was all set to add another "local" song, the new single by the Hudson Valley New York-based Us Commoners, "Long Road Back Around", its follow-up to the #3 "The Hot Spot". The single was announced via Facebook post on August 12, but nearly a month later, it is still not available for download.    One of my rules of inclusion on my SNS 100 is that a song has to be available for download.    This, in a way, is the reason why Czekaj has three songs on the list, as "Up in the Sky" and "That Old New Jersey" were released months before I added them as they weren't available until the release of his latest album, at which time, I added the songs rather closely apart.

As for the Commoners, who have other songs in the can, the only available songs currently on the major websites are the aforementioned "The Hot Spot" and last year's holiday offering "Christmas and Hanukkah".       I know streaming has pretty much replaced downloads as the current method of selling (or in that case, "renting") music, but for me, who still has an IPOD and whose SNS 100 comprises a current playlist for these songs, (and with lack of radio airplay on many of them), it's the only way I can get acclimated to these songs.   Us Commoners were actually late in putting out "The Hot Spot", and between that and the two Czekaj singles (plus a few national acts), I may have to rethink that strategy.     There is a video for "Long Road Back Around" as well as another imminent single release "Falling", and perhaps it's time for another look at how I add songs, and maybe even look into streaming (if my smartphone data charges would allow).

PAIGE'S WORLD: Finally, I heard the new single by The Hounds of Winter, "Oh Paige", it is a winner.    Look for a debut in the next couple of weeks or so.

Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100

August 14, 2016

This Week	Last Week	ARTIST-Title	Weeks on List
1	3	NUMBER ONE: FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS "Complicated" Album: Fitz and the Tantrums	6
2	4	M83 - Go	7
3	1	Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dark Necessities	12
4	2	Paul Czekaj - That Old New Jersey	10
5	6	Kaleo - Way Down We Go●	21
6	10	Finish Ticket - Color	8
7	9	Mayer Hawthorne - Cosmic Love	14
8	7	The Revivalists - Wish I Knew You	12
9	12	Billy Spanton Band - Shake Your Soul	6
10	11	Adele - Send My Love (To Your New Lover)	10
11	5	Us Commoners - The Hot Spot	10
12	21	TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK: PHOEBE RYAN "Chronic" (Single Only)	7
13	25	Santana - Blues Magic	4
14	8	Cage the Elephant - Trouble	11
15	14	Nada Surf - Believe You're Mine	16
16	15	City and Colour - Wasted Love	10
17	18	Bishop Briggs- River	12
18	22	Charles Kelley- Lonely Girl	14
19	16	Beck - Wow	9
20	20	Flume f Andrew Wyatt- Some Minds	9

21	13	Trent Harmon - Falling	14
22	29	The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra	8
23	26	The Dreamers - Drugs	13
24	19	Pink - Just Like Fire	9
25	17	Fitz and the Tantrums - HandClap●	17
26	33	Young the Giant - Something to Believe In	6
27	23	Awolnation - Woman Woman	14
28	35	Pop Etc. - What Am I Becoming	12
29	36	Foals - What Went Down	6
30	38	Twenty-One Pilots - Ride	13
31	39	The Strokes - Oblivius	6
32	27	Kongos - Take It From Me	10
33	43	Barns Courtney - Fire	6
34	28	Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - I Need Never Get Old	14
35	46	Amos Lee - Vaporize	5
36	24	Blink 182 - Bored to Death	9
37	30	Collective Soul - Contagious	15
38	42	The Blossoms - At Most A Kiss	7
39	31	Smash Palace - My Mistake●	19
40	47	Coin - Talk Too Much	5
41	44	Death Cab for Cutie - Good Help	8
42	45	Hozier - Better Love	7
43	32	Ray Lamontagne - Hey No Pressure	20
44	51	Langhorn Slim and the Law - Spirit Moves	9
45	34	The Heavy - Since You Been Gone	15
46	53	The Monkees - She Makes Me Laugh	8
47	52	Calvin Harris f Rhianna - This Is What You Came For	8
48	40	Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - No Love Like Yours	17
49	60	Leon Bridges - Better Man	4
50	37	BORNS - American Money	10
51	59	Coldplay - Hymn For the Weekend	7
52	69	Zac Brown Band - Castaway	3
53	50	Santigold - Can't Get Enough of Myself	20
54	67	Two Door Cinema Club - Are We Ready (Wreck)	4
55	82	MOVER OF THE WEEK: MICHAEL KIWAUNKA "One More Night" Album: Love & Hate	2
56	41	Rachel Allyn - Next Year's Girl	15
57	48	The Parlor - The Surgeon's Knife●	20
58	57	Goo Goo Dolls - So Alive	7
59	49	Greeting Committee - Hands Down	9
60	80	St. Paul and the Broken Bones - All I Ever Wonder	2
61	71	DMA's - Too Soon	5
62	72	The Doughboys - For Your Love	4
63	74	Phantogram- You Don't Get Me High Anymore	5
64	75	The Grip Weeds - Rainbow Quartz	4
65	54	Avid Dancer - I Feel It●	24
66	66	Chris Stapleton - Nobody to Blame	7
67	92	Halo Circus with Allison Ireheta - Nothing At All	2
68	55	Parquet Courts - Dust	11
69	81	Eagulls - Velvet	3
70	56	Band of Horses - Casual Party	8
71	61	Paul Czekaj - Up In the Sky	16
72	58	Garbage - Empty	13
73	68	Run River North - Run or Hide	22
74	85	Passenger - Somebody's Love	3
75	100	Disturbed - The Sound of Silence	7
76	62	Mutemath - Light Up	17
77	87	DNCE - Cake By the Ocean	25
78	63	Palma Violets - Matador	11
79	70	Foals - Give It All●	24
80	88	Deerhunter - Snakeskin	3
81	---	TOP DEBUT: ELLE KING "Good Girls" Album: Ghostbusters 2 (Soundtrack)	1
82	90	The Hunna - You and Me	3
83	91	Grouplove - Welcome to Your Life	2
84	95	Trails and Ways - My Things	2
85	---	Rachel Allyn - For What It's Worth	1
86	64	Strumbella - Spirits	23
87	65	The Joy Formidable - The Last Thing on My Mind	22
88	83	Beth Orton - 1973	8
89	105	Wilco - If I Ever Was A Child	1
90	---	Paul Czekaj - A Place I Once Called Home	1
91	73	The Veils - Axoloti	9
92	97	Glass Animals - Life Itself	4
93	---	Ray Lamontagne - The Changing Man	1
94	76	The Thermals - Hey You	15
95	96	888 - Critical Mistakes	3
96	101	Katy Perry - Rise	2
97	78	Weezer - King of the World	12
98	102	Bell X1 - Out of Love	2
99	77	Young the Giant - Amerika	14
100	103	Bastille - Good Grief	1