NOT ALL MINE: The SNS 100 chart that I compile each week, while mostly reflecting my current tastes in music, isn't all just about me. I know there are many other music fans, and some of them are actually into what is out there now. I seemed to be on a "new music roll" lately, listening to mostly the sounds of 2018 (or 2017 and 2016, since much of my discoveries were songs that came out in recent years). That's why I love it when I hear songs from outside by blog playlist; either by friends posting songs, other friends recommending artists (or as I learned last week, related to those artists), or even hearing songs on friends' Internet stations or piped into restaurants and bars.
That's why it's gratifying to see several of the songs on the SNS 100 this week take a reaction to what has been going on. So, let's start at the top.
Donna Missal remains at the top spot in a still-competitive top three with "Keep Lying", managing to stay ahead of Elle King and James Hunter Six. While I love the other two songs, and I figured either one or the other would overtake the Jersey girl for #1 in a week or two, Missal actually gains a bit on "Shame" and "I Don't Wanna Be Without You". I had posted "Keep Lying" on my Facebook timeline last week and got some positive responses with five likes and several positive comments. Compare that to Neko Case's "Bad Luck" which I also posted, as it was my "Song of the Summer" this year. It drew a goose egg. I also learned that Missal appeared recently on the Today Show, the segment with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. As I mentioned last week, she also appeared and performed on the Elvis Duran morning show on Top 40 station Z-100. Still, the song (or herself) still hasn't appeared on a Billboard chart as of yet; it's still in new rotation on Albany/Manchester VT alternative station WEQX, but still not on either the magazine's Alternative or Triple-A chart as of yet. But we keep hoping.
A friend from my hometown, Gail Bradley, posted two songs on my list this past week. Foster the People's "Sit Next to Me", and Taylor Swift's "Delicate". FTP's song, which peaked here at #12 earlier this year, and is also long running on the Alternative chart, inches back up to 93 in it's 32nd week on the list, while the Swift single regains it's bullet as it advances to #77 from 88.
Finally, this past weekend, I had attended the bi-annual Oktoberfest at Germania Park in Dover, NJ. While no German oompah music hit my list this week, my friends and I headed back to our friend Alan's place for a bonfire. Alan is a music aficionado, providing the soundtrack for our Jets tailgates. This time, however, he had an Internet radio station playing, specializing in indie pop. Thus, Real Estate's "Time" enters my list become of that exposure, at #59. The band, which hails from Ridgewood, New Jersey and was part of that town's "mini-scene" earlier in the decade, reached #4 with "It's Real" in 2011. "Time" is from their fourth album In Mind, released in 2017. It slipped through the cracks back then, but I am fortunate enough to hear the song. It's an awesome song, a melodic romp that reminds you of perhaps a relaxing beach party in the summer time.
Also played on that station that night was "Pictures of Girl" by The Wallows, which peaked at #27 a couple weeks back; the song reverses course and re-bullets up to #31 this week.
REVIVAL: The Real Estate song, however, is not the Top Debut this week; that belongs to "All My Friends" by The Revivalists, at #54. The song tops the Billboard Triple-A chart this week and advances to #12 on the Alternative list as well. The band has scored an SNS hit before; that would be 2016's "Wish I Knew You", which reached #7. But upon hearing the new one, I was totally blown away. It's a very soulful mid-tempo romp, reminiscent of Hard Fi's "Cash Machine" from 2005. I definitely recommend it. It's from their forthcoming fourth album, Take Good Care which will be out this November.
After Curtis Harding's "Need Your Love", I had to pluck another from the soul singer's Face Your Fear set. "It's Not Over" recalls the Memphis soul sound and is a slight change of pace from the indie-sounding former SNS hit.
Also added this week are the latest from The Interrupters, Dirty Heads, Mt. Joy, and Barns Courtney, the latter, whose new one, "99" is an original song, not another Toto remake. The artist hit #12 in late 2016 with "Fire".
Speaking of which, Weezer's rendition of "Africa", a former #1 Alternative hit (and residing in the middle of the Hot 100 this week), moves 8-4 but well behind the top 3. Shannon Marsyada's "Tough Girl" moves from 18 to 10, becoming her first solo top 10 hit. Early last year, "The Ends of Me" hit #39, but her SNS chart topping "What You Do To Me" was actually credited as the Shannon Marsyada Trio.
SUPPORT LOCAL ARTISTS: As you know by now, I try and give more obscure artists some sort of exposure and will try the best I can to help get their music heard. While one of those ways is to add their music to my blog playlist, another is to contribute to a fund to help finance their recordings. In the past, KickStarter.com was used by Rachel Allyn to record her EP Next Year's Girl, and again by Omnia Hegazy for her EP Judgement Day.
As I mentioned above, Shannon Marsyada enters my top 10 this week, but she needs help in financing a full length album. I had the pleasure of meeting her back in 2013 at the Jim Thorpe Fall festival and have followed her career since. The Hazelton PA native plays many of the bars in the eastern Pennsylvania area and is vastly talented, with her influences ranging from Amy Winehouse to Adele to Florence Welch. This is an artist I believe in and I will soon make a contribution to the endeavor. Here is the information:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1166979169/shannon-marsyada-oceans?ref=user_menu
Elsewhere, Staten Island's Hegazy will be doing a free concert this Saturday evening in their native borough. It takes place at 7:30 at the Everything Goes Book Café in Staten Island. The sisters' "Smolder", the third top three song from their current EP Young, hit #3 and is currently at #19.
Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100
September 16, 2018
| This Week | Last Week | ARTIST-Title | Weeks on List |
| 1 | 1 | NUMBER ONE:
"Keep Lying"
Album: This Time
(2 week at #1)
|
6 |
| 2 | 2 | Elle King - Shame | 5 |
| 3 | 3 | James Hunter Six - I Don't Wanna Be Without You | 4 |
| 4 | 8 | Weezer - Africa | 10 |
| 5 | 7 | The Regrettes - Come Through | 17 |
| 6 | 9 | Greta Van Fleet - When the Curtain Falls | 7 |
| 7 | 6 | Franz Ferdinand -Paper Cages | 9 |
| 8 | 10 | Portugal. The Man - Tidal Wave | 9 |
| 9 | 11 | Courtney Barnett - Charity | 11 |
| 10 | 18 | Shannon Marsyada - Tough Girl | 5 |
| 11 | 5 | St. Paul and the Broken Bones - Apollo | 9 |
| 12 | 4 | Two Feet - I Feel Like Drowning | 18 |
| 13 | 14 | Vance Joy - Saturday Sun | 13 |
| 14 | 16 | Metric - Dark Saturday | 6 |
| 15 | 24 | TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK:
"Four Leaf
Clover"
Album: Let's Go Sunshine
|
5 |
| 16 | 25 | Jeff Rosenstock - 9/10 | 4 |
| 17 | 17 | Ed Sheeran - Happier | 5 |
| 18 | 29 | King Princess - 1950 | 8 |
| 19 | 12 | Hegazy - Smolder | 13 |
| 20 | 13 | Tennis - My Emotions Are Blinding | 12 |
|
|
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.
No comments:
Post a Comment