Friday Charts 3/3/06
Every so often you hear a news story about downloading that references Big Champagne, which is a company that tracks the prevalances of downloaded music and videos. I wonder how different what they do is from what I've been doing here, basically looking at a preprepared list of the most shared albums and reporting them back. Anyways, here are the top ten most seeded albums on a certain site. If there are links on a particular album, it will take you some place where you can sample the music or find more info about an artist:
1. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
2. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
3. The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
4. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
5. TV On The Raio - Untitled, Unmastered 2006 release
6. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
7. Calexico - Garden Ruin
8. Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
9. David Gilmour - On An Island
10. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
That the Yeah Yeah Yeahs new album was anticipated is no surprise, although it still has around half of the seeds of At War With The Mystics. What is more interesting is that people would be this interested in an unfinished version of TV on the Radio, (described as "High on vocals, low on drums.") Evidently it still sounds impressive, although the band has asked blogs to remove MP3s they posted. Also interesting, but none too surprising any more, is the Tapes 'n Tapes album The Loon, which has been not only available, but officially released, since last year. However, on Tuesday, the following review appeared, (guess where?) and shot the album up the charts. I was incredibly underwhelmed by the record. For the names they tossed out to compare it to, (Pavement, Beach Boys and Pixies), it sounded like a garbled, amatuerish, unpleasent mess. Lastly, David Gilmour proves that you don't have to be a flavor of the month in order to have musical snobs take notice. But if you're not pulling down the latest salivating review from Pitchfork, it helps to be an ex-member of one of the biggest, most popular and most fondly remembered music groups of all time.
