Category: Music

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”

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”