Friday Charts - 2/17/06
Let's take a look at the Friday Charts to see what people are excited about this week. These are the most shared albums on a music site:
1. The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
2. Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
3. Calexico - Garden Ruin
4. Granddaddy - Just LIke The Fambly Cat
5. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
6. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
7. Jack Johnson & Friends - Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies From The Film Curious George
8. Islands - Return To The Sea
9. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Higher Quality)
10. The Knife - Silent Shout
As you can see, the highly anticipated new Flaming Lips album (as reported in last weeks charts, quickly soared to the top of the charts. While the album may not exactly live up to the rabid expectations, (Read my review), it is certainly understandable that the interest and anticipation for this album were there. The rest of the top ten remain similar to last weeks. The Islands album is a side project of the now defunct Unicorns, which for some reason has had a large amount of staying popularity on this site. The only other notable inclusion on the list is the The Knife's "Silent Shout." Here we see the power of a Pitchfork review. Based on the coveted "Best New Music" status conferred upon the album in this review published Monday, Pitchfork is able to make people with the same interest in Jack Johnson and the Arctic Monkeys take interest in a pretty bizarre techno album. One of these days, I feel Pitchform is due to pull an Emperor's New Clothes style scam, where they hype an album that one of their staffers recorded while taking a shit, and seeing how many people they can convince to buy into it. If anyone is fairly sure that this has already happened, let me know.
