Category: Music

Here’s my top 10 song chart for the week ending June 10, 2012, courtesy of the home office in London:

1) Ambra Red – “Beauty 606”
2) Marsheaux – “How Does It Feel?”
3) Marsheaux – “fischerprice”
4) Marsheaux – “Bizzare Love Duo”
5) Marsheaux – “She’s Leaving”
6) Katy Perry – “Part of Me”
7) Freezepop – “Sprite: Melonball Bounce”
8) Marsheaux – “Summer”
9) Ambra Red – “It’s Just A Dream”
10) Marsheaux – “Now and Never”

Here’s my top 10 song chart for the week ending May 27, 2012, courtesy of the home office in London:

1) Marsheaux – “Summer”
2) Marsheaux – “Thirteen/True”
3) The Psychedelic Furs – “Pretty In Pink”
4) Duran Duran – “Hungry Like the Wolf”
5) Guadalcanal Diary – “Always Saturday”
6) The Cardigans – “Do You Believe”
7) The Go-Go’s – “Head Over Heels”
8) The Jesus and Mary Chain – “The Hardest Walk”
9) The Pipettes – “Pull Shapes”
10) The Rolling Stones – “Gimme Shelter”

Here’s my top 10 song chart for the week ending May 20, 2012, courtesy of the home office in London:

1) Saint Etienne – “I’ve Got Your Music”
2) Madonna – “Love Profusion”
3) Freezepop – “Pop Music is Not a Crime”
4) Beach House – “Wild”
5) Beach House – “Lazuli”
6) Marsheaux – “Summer”
7) Katy Perry – “Part of Me”
8) Beach House – “Other People”
9) Beach House – “Myth”
10) Saint Etienne – “Heading For The Fair”

Here’s my top 10 song chart for the week ending May 13, 2012, courtesy of the home office in London:

1) Saint Etienne – “I’ve Got Your Music (Single Version)”
2) Blouse – “Shadow”
3) Beach House – “Myth”
4) Saint Etienne – “Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi)”
5) Marsheaux – “Ghost”
6) Metric – “Youth Without Youth”
7) The Raveonettes – “Night Comes Out”
8) Best Coast – “The Only Place”
9) Madonna – “Frozen”
10) The Police – “Don’t Stand So Close To Me”

From the home office in London, here’s the Top 10 song chart for the week ending May 6, 2012:

1) The Raveonettes – “Night Comes Out”
2) Saint Etienne – “I’ve Got Your Music (Single version)”
3) Saint Etienne – “Tonight”
4) Saint Etienne – “Tonight (Extended Version)”
5) Roxy Music – “The Space Between”
6) Duran Duran – “Careless Memories”
7) She & Him – “Thieves”
8) The Raveonettes – “Apparitions”
9) Madonna – “Paradise (Not for Me)”
10) The Police – “Don’t Stand So Close To Me”

I’ve been a lukewarm fan of The Raveonettes off and on for a few years now. But I was totally blown away by last year’s Raven in the Grave (in fact, it was my Album of the Year). It wasn’t that I didn’t like their “Everly Brothers meets Jesus and Mary Chain” sound from before. Raven was just different: less “early rock and roll meets buzzing guitars”, more dark.

But the duo are back, and they’ve brought their 1950s sound with them. Into the Night is their new 4-track EP, and my favorite song from it is “Night Comes Out”. Check it out:

Last.fm says I’ve listened to the song 15 times since March 25th… but I swear that’s way too low. I think I’ve listened to it 15 times in the past two days!

From the home office in London, here’s the Top 10 song chart for the week ending April 29, 2012:

1) The Raveonettes – “Night Comes Out”
2) The Raveonettes – “Too Close to Heartbreak”
3) Antilles – “You and Me”
4) The Raveonettes – “Into The Night”
5) Ladyhawke – “Vaccine”
6) Beach House – “Myth”
7) Young Prisms – “Gone”
8) The Raveonettes – “Bad Ghosts”
9) John Coltrane – “Blue Train”
10) Cocteau Twins – “Lorelei”

Holy crap, how come I didn’t know about this until three days ago? It’s a 9 minute excerpt from an 1983 episode of MTV’s Cutting Edge with The Go-Go’s being interviewed at The Varsity restaurant in my hometown of Atlanta. Apparently the girls were playing a gig at the nearby 688 Club later that evening, and MTV chose to have the interview there!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM2vejgNn9o

Goodness, what fun memories! The best part about the interview is that it goes into surprising “behind the scenes” depth at the restaurant. The Varsity has been featured in no telling how many things on Food Network and Travel Channel, but usually those pieces show the counter, and maybe some hot dogs being made, and that’s usually it. It’s hilarious watching Belinda Carlisle trying to cook french fries! And yes, Old School Atlantans, you can see Erby Walker in this clip!

From the home office in London, here’s the Top 10 song chart for the week ending April 22, 2012:

1) Beach House – “Lazuli”
2) Beach House – “Wild”
3) Beach House – “Myth”
4) Beach House – “Other People”
5) Marsheaux – “Destroy Me”
6) Roxy Music – “Same Old Scene”
7) Saint Etienne – “Tonight”
8) Katy Perry – “Hot N Cold”
9) Saint Etienne – “Method of Modern Love”
10) Marsheaux – “Summer”

Kind of an odd week this week, as tunes from my recent Vegas trip dominate the Top 10. And so, from the home office in London, here’s the Top 10 song chart for the week ending April 15, 2012:

1) Elvis Presley – “A Little Less Conversation (JXL remix)”
2) Saint Etienne – “He’s on the Phone (Eurodance Mix)”
3) Alizée – “J’En Ai Marre”
4) Binary Finary – “2000 (Original mix)”
5) The Lonely Island (with Akon) – “I Just Had Sex”
6) The Stranglers – “Golden Brown”
7) Sex Pistols – “God Save The Queen”
8) Blondie – “Dreaming”
9) Kim Carnes – “Bette Davis Eyes”
10) New Order – “Subculture”