Your Weekly Top Five (songs) Thread

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  1. The Killers - “Somebody Told Me” :wink:
  2. Pukka Orchestra - “Listen to the Radio”
  3. Belle & Sebastian - “The State I Am In”
  4. Wall of Voodoo - “Lost Weekend”
  5. Destroyer - “It’s Gonna Take an Airplane”

Observations: (1) Its nice to see some other Destroyer fans here on the SDMB. (2) The Killers - “Somebody Told Me” is a really cool song. (3) I have the weirdest mix of musical interests.

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Have you been watching Kingdom Hospital?

  1. “In Your Eyes,” Peter Gabriel
  2. “Little Triggers,” Elvis Costello
  3. “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself,” the White Stripes
  4. “Blister in the Sun,” Violent Femmes
  5. “I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl,” Nina Simone

Wow. No new songs at all. I need to live somewhere with decent radio.

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  1. Air - Mike Mills
  2. Iron & Wine - Muddy Hymnal

(I should note that I’ve been listening to the CDs these appear on a lot, so these are just my current favorites off of them. It’s been changing a lot.)

  1. Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee
  2. REM - Crazy
  3. Elliott Smith - Angeles
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Yup! I watched three of the six episodes I was behind last weekend :stuck_out_tongue:

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Well, you’ve got another week to get caught up. No new episodes until the twentieth.

I need to replace one of my songs with “What a Waster” by the Libertines. I heard it just now, and it absolutely rules. Maybe I should just store it up for next week’s list. I’ll have to think about it.

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I didn’t hear anything both new and good, so my picks are all older this week.

Week ending May 15th:

  1. Screaming Trees " Nearly Lost You There" (I switched radio stations and heard it twice in 10 minutes!)
  2. Live " Heropsychodreamer"
  3. Hal feat. Gillian Anderson " Extremis"
  4. Greenwheel " Breathe" (these guys, not Melissa Etheridge, wrote this song)
  5. Sunna " Power Struggle!"

Oddest mention:
I’m not sure how it happened, but a station I was listening to played two songs at once. " Bullet with Butterfly wings" by the Smashing Pumpkins and “Mad World” by Gary Jules are not good songs to mix together, if anyone was wondering. It was sureal. And kind of terrible.

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In no particular order, just as they come to mind:

  1. Franz Ferdinand - Auf Achse
  2. Starsailor - Shark Food
  3. The Thrills - One Horse Town
  4. Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
  5. Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee
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  1. The Libertines, “What a Waster”
  2. Isobel Campbell, “The Breeze Whispered Your Name”
  3. Belle and Sebastian, “The Stars of Track and Field”
  4. Barry Jive and the Uptown Five, “Let’s Get it On”
  5. The Beta Band, “Dry the Rain”

I wonder how many copies of The Three EPs got sold because of High Fidelity? Probably more than five.

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Pearl Jam - Rearview Mirror
Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Guns ‘n’ Roses - November Rain
A Perfect Circle - The Outsider

Why yes, I did just break up with my girlfriend a couple of weeks ago, how could you tell?

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  1. The Clash - Kingston Advice Ignored song of an ignored album. There’s a lot more to The Clash than angst.
  2. Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado Symphony (The Whole Thing) * An extremely solid concept album comprising one of the best Classical-Rock fusions ever made.*
  3. Pink Floyd - Matilda Mother How can you ignore that funky oriental interlude?
  4. Oasis – Digsy’s Dinner * Awful arrangement, yet somehow a powerful melody escapes from the cacophony. About as beautiful as you can get driving a bulldozer through a guitar factory.*
  5. Scissor Sisters - Tits on the Radio Palpably camp and hilarious, though hiding a serious message.

I see that there are lot of Franz Feridinand fans around… I really need to make an effort to get in that album.

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Week ending 5/23 -

  1. “Got to Get You Off My Mind,” Solomon Burke
  2. “Float On,” Modest Mouse
  3. “Bad Cover Version,” Pulp
  4. “Ghost Town,” the Specials
  5. “Sticking With You,” Velvet Underground
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June 1st will be a momentous day, when I get my computer shipped to me and can once again listen to new music. Until then…

  1. “Company Calls Epilogue” - Death Cab for Cutie
  2. “Naked as We Came” - Iron and Wine
  3. “On the Tower” - Sondre Lerche
  4. “All Possibilities” - Badly Drawn Boy
  5. “Matinee” - Franz Ferdinand

I get to see FF in Toronto in June. Anyone want to come?

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Week Ending 5/23 or there abouts

  1. The Church “Under the Milky Way Tonight”
  2. Melissa Etheridge " Come To My Window"
  3. 311 " Love Song" (the orginal of which I confuse with #1 somehow)
  4. Clinic “Come into Our Room” (I’m good. I heard this in a show and figured out who the artist was despite only knowing one song by them prior)
  5. 3 Days Grace " Just Like You"
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Week ending 5/30

  1. Franz Ferdinand, “Auf Asche”
  2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Tick”
  3. Marvin Gaye, “Trouble Man”
  4. Travis, “Happy to Hang Around”
  5. Morrissey, “Irish Blood, English Heart”
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Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap.
The Music - Getaway (saw them live on Thursday, brilliant!).
Verve - Where The Geese Go
Starsailor - Tie Up My Hands
The Bluetones - Slackjaw

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So nice that other people remember even when I don’t :smiley:

This week was the top 500 best countdown on one of my two favorite stations so:

  1. Soul Coughing " Screenwriter’s blues" (do they have a Best Of disk yet?)
  2. Massive Attack " Tear Drop"
  3. Matthew Sweet " Girlfriend"
  4. Moby " Porcelain"
  5. A3 " Woke Up This Morning" (even though I hate The Sopranos)
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  1. Carry On Wayward Son- Kansas (my favorite song)
  2. There You’ll Be- from the movie Pearl Harbor (sounds so good on my saxophone)
  3. Part of Your World- from The Little Mermaid (yes, I’m a sap, lol)
  4. Zoot Suit Riot
  5. We are the Champions- Queen (probably my favorite band)
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[ol]
[li]White Stripes - I just don’t know what to do with myself*[/li][li]The Pretenders - Night in My Veins[/li][li]Hurrah! - Sweet Sanity[/li][li]David Bowie - Sweet Thing/Candidate[/li][li]Department S - Is Vic There?[/li][/ol]

  • Rolling round and round and round in my head this week courtesy of a couple of sleepless nights and a dental abcess.
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For the week ending May 30:

  1. Franz Ferdinand - Shopping For Blood
  2. The Magnetic Fields - Take Ecstasy With Me
  3. Orange Juice - Rip It Up
  4. The New Pornographers - All For Swinging You Around
  5. Future Bible Heroes - Losing Your Affection
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For the week ending 30 May, I made an upbeat mix for all the barbecues I was attending. I listened to a lot of upbeat, summery songs. Not all of these made the cut, but these were the ones that ended up in my head.

  1. They Might Be Giants - Man, It’s So Loud In Here (#1 for three weeks and holding)
  2. Snake River Conspiracy - You and Your Friend
  3. Beth Orton & Four Tet - Carmella (remix)
  4. TMBG (again) - Bangs
  5. Me First & the Gimme Gimmes - Nothing Compares 2 U (cover of Prince / Sinead O’Connor)