Category: Music

From Last.fm:

“Swedish electroclash bombshell Ambra Red delivers the soundtrack for luxuriant club life with a fusion of her metrosexual vocals and a retrolicious foundation of venue-moving electro-tech grooves. Soaring acidic synth strobes, thick sweeps, and gritty analog percussion pulse and explode while Ambra tantalizes the club floor with her playful lyrics and modulated vocal finesse.”

This song, from her self-released album Electronic Creations for Special People, tells the story of the singer meeting a woman in a chatroom (username: “Beauty 606”) on some kind of smutty website. Only it doesn’t quite work out the way Ambra wanted:

It seems like I’ve played this song 100 times in the past three weeks. Have a listen and find out why!

Here are my Top 10 Bands for the first six months of 2012, according to the play count feature of Last.fm. Yes, I’m obsessive about play counts: I go through each list of iPod scrobbles to make sure all the played songs are submitted… and I even recreate non-scrobbled playlists. Note the play counts in parenthesis.

1) Marsheaux (570)
2) Saint Etienne (234)
3) Ambra Red (149)
4) Beach House (101)
5) The Raveonettes (81)
6) Katy Perry (79)
7) Blouse (62)
8) Freezepop (58)
9) Roxy Music (56)
10) Ladyhawke (51)

Here’s my top 10 song chart for the week ending July 1, courtesy of the home office in London:

1) Ambra Red – “Beauty 606”
2) Marsheaux – “Empire State Human”
3) Parralox – “I Fell In Love With A Drum Machine”
4) The Raveonettes – “Night Comes Out”
5) Stars – “The Theory of Relativity”
6) Foretaste – “Do What You Can”
7) Foretaste – “The End of Days”
8) Saint Etienne – “Heading For The Fair”
9) Garbage – “I Think I’m Paranoid”
10) The Dandy Warhols – “Bohemian Like You”

Here’s my top 10 song chart for the week ending June 24 2012, courtesy of the home office in London:

1) Marsheaux – “Empire State Human”
2) Ambra Red – “Beauty 606”
3) Marsheaux – “How Does It Feel?”
4) Marsheaux – “Faith”
5) Lana Del Rey – “Video Games”
6) Saint Etienne – “I’ve Got Your Music”
7) Duran Duran – “Hungry Like the Wolf”
8) Ambra Red – “I Was A Star”
9) Marsheaux – “She’s Leaving”
10) 10,000 Maniacs – “Everyone a Puzzle Lover”

Here’s my top 10 song chart for the week ending June 17, 2012, courtesy of the home office in London:

1) Saint Etienne – “I’ve Got Your Music”
2) Yann Tiersen – “La Valse D’Amelie”
3) Ambra Red – “Beauty 606”
4) Marsheaux – “Summer”
5) Marsheaux – “Faith”
6) Public Image Ltd. – “Deeper Water”
7) Marsheaux – “Inside”
8) Marsheaux – “Empire State Human”
9) Lotus Plaza – “Out of Touch”
10) Soft Swells – “Overrated”

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”