Playlist for Week of 7/12/2020

Just a "playlist week" this go-round.    Pepper heads the list for the fourth week in a row, followed by Donna Missal, Delacey, MGMT and Neon Trees.    New Jersey has a big presence, with eight of the top 20, including #2 and positions 7 through 10 (as well as two of the debuts).  Incidentally, Pepper's song "Change" is the third with that title to top my list, following Churchill's in 2014, and The Revivalists in 2019.

Among the adds this week is another song from Elise Farnsworth's debut, Turn Her Up, "In the Morning Light".  Perhaps a little more accessible, and less bluesy than my first featured track, the top 3 "Safety Net".  A slightly lighter approach with a sharper beat, her voice has that raw emotion.    Definitely worth checking out, as well as her EP.   She has the Top Debut this week at #73.

Close behind is Delta Spirit's "How Bout It".   The band is an indie rock outfit from San Diego, and early readers of my blog may remember the song "Bushwick Blues", which reached #2 on my playlist blog in late 2010 and #16 for that year.  That was from their second album History from Below.   The band had released two more albums, a self-titled effort in 2012, and Into the Wide (2014), the former yielding the #40 "California", the only other song of theirs that I had added to my playlists.    After six years, they finally release their fifth album What Is There.    A part-somber, piano-ambience of a song with stretched out, soulful voices, but definitely rock, especially with guitar solo in the second half of the song, it's a good bet to hit my top 20.

The third debut comes from The Backseat Lovers, with "Kilby Girl", their SNS debut.    The song is on their full-length debut, When We Were Friends, released independently last year.   Starting out as a jangly-pop effort, morphing into a rather dreamy rock-jam, it's a perfect song that gets better as it goes on.   

Also added are current efforts from Dreamers, The 1975, and The Milwaukees, which, despite their name, are from Jersey City, and have a full rock ambience sound to them.   Finally, I re-add "Groceries", by Mallrat, aka Grace Kathleen Elizabeth Shaw, which had a brief run last year on my SNS 100 playlist.

Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100 Playlist

July 12, 2020

This Week	Last Week	ARTIST-Title	Weeks on List
1	1	NUMBER ONE: PEPPER "Change" Album: Local Motion (4 weeks at #1)	12
2	2	Donna Missal - Let You Let Me Down	9
3	3	Delacey  - Chapel	13
4	8	MGMT - In the Afternoon	10
5	5	Neon Trees - Used to Like	13
6	7	The Rolling Stones - Living in a Ghost Town	12
7	9	Screen Age - Blue Eyed Addiction	10
8	4	Elise Farnsworth - Safety Net	11
9	13	Real Estate ft Sylvan Esso - Paper Cup	5
10	12	King Tappa - No Drama	8
11	11	Winnetka Bowling League - Kangaroo	9
12	14	Eliza and the Delusionals - Pull Apart Heart	8
13	6	Benee - Glitter	13
14	15	MyKey ft. Cavetown -Was It Something I Said?	7
15	20	Donna Missal - How Does It Feel	4
16	17	Foster the People - Lamb's Wool	7
17	10	C. Lynne Smith - Real	14
18	30	TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK: COLONY HOUSE "Original Material" Album: Leave What's Lost Behind	7
19	16	The Outcrops - Lost Days●	17
20	32	Nick Waterhouse - Wreck the Rod	6
21	21	Blake Shelton ft Gwen Stefani - Nobody But You	10
22	28	Beabadoobee - She Plays Bass	9
23	18	Gary Clark Jr - Pearl Cadillac	16
24	29	Haim - The Steps	11
25	48	Bakar - Hell N Back	3
26	33	Avi Buffalo - Skeleton Painting	11
27	36	Avi Wisnia - Sky Blue Sky	8
28	38	ZZ Ward - Break Her Heart	6
29	26	Kjband - Life Without Complications	10
30	19	Caroline Rose - Feel The Way I Want	15
31	34	Best Coast - Everything Has Changed	14
32	39	Ray LaMontagne - Strong Enough	6
33	41	AJR - Bang!	13
34	25	Twenty-One Pilots - Level of Concern	12
35	22	Tennis - Need Your Love	14
36	23	Donna Missal - Hurt By You	13
37	31	Molly Burch - Needy	13
38	47	Pretenders - The Buzz	4
39	24	Tame Impala - Lost in Yesterday	12
40	40	Halsey - You Should Be Sad	11
41	27	Sea of Otters - I Tend to Offend	14
42	64	MOVER OF THE WEEK: MILKY CHANCE and JACK JOHNSON "Don't Let Me Down" (Single Only)	4
43	35	Shannon Marsyada - Say It More	14
44	49	Caroline Rose - Do You Think We'll Last Forever	6
45	57	The Regrettes - What Am I Gonna Do Today	3
46	52	The Big Takeover - Weight of the World	7
47	37	Amber Arcades - Where Did You Go	16
48	53	Finneas - Let's Fall in Love For the Night	7
49	42	Winnetka Bowling League - CVS	15
50	43	Black Pumas - Fire	19
51	45	Tennis - Runner●	20
52	59	Norah Jones - I'm Alive	7
53	61	Dayglow - Can I Call You Tonight	9
54	46	Michael Kiwanuka - Rolling	15
55	63	Weezer - Hero	5
56	65	Black Pumas - Colors	5
57	71	Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto	3
58	44	The 1975 - Me and You Together Song	11
59	55	The Black Keys - Shine A Little Light	15
60	50	Cold War Kids - Who's Gonna Love Me Now	15
61	54	Cage the Elephant - Black Madonna	16
62	68	The Beths - Dying to Believe	4
63	51	Beach Bunny - Dream Boy	14
64	67	Major Lazer ft Marcus Mumford - Lay Your Head On Me	8
65	77	Christina Alessi - So In Love With You	2
66	70	Wallows - OK	6
67	58	Fitz and the Tantrums - Living For the Weekend	12
68	62	Michael Kiwanuka - Hero●	24
69	56	Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now	20
70	81	Guards - So It Goes	2
71	74	The Jacks - Threw It All Away	13
72	76	The Lumineers - Salt and the Sea	3
73	---	TOP DEBUT: ELISE FARNSWORTH "In the Morning Light" Album: Turn Her Up	1
74	---	Delta Spirit - How About It	1
75	60	The Griswolds - All My Friends	8
76	80	John Cragie - Part Wolf	3
77	82	Bahamas - Way With Words	3
78	87	Awolnation - Mayday Fiesta Fever	2
79	72	Noah Cyrus ft Leon Bridges - July	6
80	90	The Head and the Heart - Honeybee	2
81	---	The Backseat Lovers - Kilby Girl	1
82	73	Nathaniel Rateliff - Time Stands	4
83	RE ENTRY	Mallrat -Groceries	7
84	84	Katy Perry - Daisies	4
85	85	Echosmith - Lonely Generation	2
86	75	Paul Czekaj - Painter of the Sky	17
87	---	Dreamers - Heat Seeker	1
88	---	The Milwaukees - No Way Out	1
89	66	The Killers - Caution	16
90	92	The Killers - My Own Soul's Warning	2
91	79	Christina Alessi - The Truth's Upon us	35
92	94	Mt. Joy - Strangers	2
93	69	Christina Taylor ft. Brett Kissel -As Good As You Look	10
94		The 1975 - If You're Too Shy	1
95	83	Winnetka Bowling League - Slow Dances	19
96	78	Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted	13
97	86	Vampire Weekend - Sunflower	19
98	88	Billie Joe Armstrong - I Think We're Alone Now	10
99	91	Awolnation - The Best	15
100	89	Grouplove - Deleter	13

Songs with the greatest increase in favorite points over the prior week.   ● Songs with 25 or more plays on iTunes/iPods ▲   Songs with 50 or more plays.