Blessing the Rains? (SNS week of 7/1/2018)

Going to make this one brief:   Neko Case holds at the top spot for a third week at the top with "Bad Luck".  Curtis Harding, Kungs and Florence + the Machine take the next three spots.   Leon Bridges continues to bullet in the top 10, while Tennis flies 25-12 with yet another great song from Yours Conditionally.   When are people going to discover this awesome duo?

The biggest news this week is the Top Debut:   Weezer's "Africa".  Yes, this is a cover of Toto's #1 hit from the autumn of 1982.   It comes in at #77, and is the quartet's follow up to their awesome "Happy Hour" which hit top 3 here and was their best song in years.  It is already top 10 on the Alternative chart, besting "Happy Hour" and has made the Billboard Hot 100, their first to do so since 2009.    The song is not currently available on an album.    Apparently, they had also released a version of Toto's "Rosanna", a #2 hit from that band's "IV" album earlier in 1982 as sort of a teaser five days before the official release of "Africa'.   Musically, it's an OK cover, at first listen, the band really doesn't bring anything new, but if you liked the original, this one won't disappoint. 

Also added were the new one from Death Cab For Cutie, with "Gold Rush", with has a bit of a hip-hoppish beat, probably an attempt to escape from the stagnation of their recent work; "Quarter Past Midnight" by Bastille, a British band, from a forthcoming third album; "Life to Fix" by The Record Company, a top 5 Triple-A format song from the L.A.-based rock trio; Young the Giant's "Simplify", from the Irvine CA's upcoming fourth album; the band has had success here with six top 20 SNS hits, including two #1's; and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweat's second off of their Tearing At the Seems album, and Jersey native Phoebe Ryan with  "Almost Back". 

Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100

July 1, 2018

This Week	Last Week	ARTIST-Title	Weeks on List
1	1	NUMBER ONE: NEKO CASE "Bad Luck" Album: Hell-On (3 weeks at #1)	10
2	2	Curtis Harding - Need Your Love	9
3	6	Kungs vs Cookin' on 3 Burners - This Girl	5
4	5	Florence + the Machine - Hunger	8
5	3	Nick Waterhouse - Straight Love Affair	10
6	9	Leon Bridges- Bad Bad News	11
7	4	James Bay - Pink Lemonade	9
8	7	The War on Drugs - Pain	11
9	8	Phillip Phillips - Magnetic	11
10	10	The Big Takeover - Rainboots	8
11	12	Beck -Colors	9
12	25	TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK: TENNIS "My Emotions Are Blinding" Album: Yours Conditionally	3
13	18	Alice Merton - Lash Out	7
14	17	Camila Cabello - Never Be the Same	10
15	15	Foster the People - I Love My Friends	11
16	13	The Neighbourhood  -Scary Love	14
17	11	Cold War Kids - Can We Hang On?	11
18	14	Lovelytheband - Broken	13
19	24	Zedd f. Maren Morris and Grey - The Middle	6
20	34	Hegazy - Smolder	4

21	32	Iration - Press Play	4
22	16	Bishop Briggs - White Flag	9
23	19	Tennis - Modern Woman●	15
24	47	MOVER OF THE WEEK: CIGARETTES AFTER SEX "Apocalypse" Album: Crush	3
25	28	The Doughboys - Sink or Swim	6
26	35	Beach House - Lemon Glow	6
27	31	Dreamers  - Screws	5
28	36	Smash Palace - It Happened to Me	5
29	22	Cigarettes After Sex - K	15
30	27	Sunflower Bean - I Was A Fool	10
31	30	Lord Huron - Wait By the River	8
32	39	Car Seat Headrest- Hervous Young Inhumans	7
33	40	Øffguard -Tension	4
34	21	Jeff Rosenstock - All This Useless Energy	15
35	23	Middle Kids - Mistake	13
36	20	Swimming With Bears - French Girls	11
37	38	The Regrettes - Come Through	8
38	37	The Heirs - Suburban Wonderland	16
39	43	Two Feet - I Feel Like Drowning	9
40	29	Big Thief - Shark Smile	17
41	48	Bebe Rexha f. Florida-Georgia Line - Meant to Be	9
42	26	The Raveonettes - Ghost	12
43	50	Bleachers - Alfie's Song	7
44	54	Lake Street Dive - Good Kisser	4
45	57	Meg Myers - Numb	5
46	51	Panic at the Disco - Say Amen (Saturday Night)	8
47	53	Caroline Rose - Soul No. 5	5
48	41	The Decemberists - Severed	17
49	55	Obesza f. Leon Bridges - Across the Room	12
50	56	The Knocks f. Foster the People - Ride or Die	8
51	33	Alvvays - Plimsoll Punks	12
52	46	The Vaccines - I Can't Quit	15
53	52	Everything Everything - Breadwinner	8
54	42	Ray LaMontagne - Such A Simple Thing	10
55	58	The Wombats - Turn	5
56	76	Interpol - The Rover	2
57	45	Alice Merton - No Roots●	25
58	49	Portugal. The Man - Live In the Moment●	25
59	61	Calvin Harris f. Dua Lipa - One Kiss	7
60	44	Amy Shark - Adore	15
61	80	Courtney Barnett - Charity	2
62	60	Ed Sheeran - Perfect●	24
63	62	Moon Taxi  - Two High●	28
64	74	Vance Joy - Saturday Sun	4
65	75	Arctic Monkeys - Four Out of Five	3
66	82	Wallows - Pictures of Girls	2
67	66	Halo Circus - Narcissist	14
68	64	Vance Joy - Lay It On Me●	22
69	71	Foster the People - Sit Next To Me●	23
70	59	Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - You Worry Me	17
71	68	Cold War Kids f. Bishop Briggs - So Tied Up▲	30
72	78	Morgan Saint - Just Friends	6
73	79	Jade Bird - Lottery	7
74	67	Ash - Buzzkill	9
75	85	Imagine Dragons - Whatever It Takes	7
76	86	Django Django - Marble Skies	2
77	---	TOP DEBUT: WEEZER "Africa" (Single Only)	1
78	70	St. Vincent - Los Ageless	16
79	69	The Palms - Don't Waste My Time	16
80	77	Hegazy - Alive●	23
81	87	Brynn Cantelli - Walk My Way	3
82	---	Young the Giant - Simplify	1
83	---	Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - A Little Honey	1
84	65	AJR f. Rivers Cuomo - Sober UP	13
85	73	Joywave - Doubt	14
86	81	Weezer - Happy Hour●	26
87	88	Blue October - I Hope You're Happy	4
88	---	The Record Company - Life To Fix	1
89	72	Christina Taylor - American Dreamin'	17
90	89	Maddie Poppe - Going Going Gone	3
91	63	Django Django - In Your Beat	15
92	84	The Neighbourhood - 24/7	22
93	---	Bastille - Quarter Past Midnight	1
94	94	Nick Waterhouse - It's Time▲	41
95	---	Death Cab For Cutie - Gold Rush	1
96	96	Miley Cyrus - Malibu▲	42
97	83	Walk the Moon - One Foot●	23
98	93	Cold War Kids - Invincible▲	32
99	90	Selena Gomez - Back To You	4
100	---	Phoebe Ryan - Almost Back	1

Songs with the greatest increase in favorite points over the prior week.

●    Songs with 25 or more plays on my iPod.

▲      Songs with 50 or more plays on my iPod.
 

The “Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100” is a list of current and recent song playlist which I am listening to.