Friday Charts - 3/9/06
Out of town this weekend, so let's take a look at the charts on Thursday for a change. Not too much action this week, what's been popular in the past remains that way. With no glowing Pitchfork reviews to propel a certain album soaring, things are relatively calm. Let's take a look:
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. David Gilmour - On An Island
6. Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun
7. TV On The Radio - Unmastered version of Return to Cookie Mountain
8. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
9. Liar's - Drums Not Dead
10. Calexico - Garden Ruin
It's going to take something monumental, to dethrone the Flaming Lips. I don't even know if Chinese Democracy could do the trick. It's great that the group has such a devoted online following, but I am curious what the consensus will be regarding the album when it comes out in a few weeks. It looks like the band is getting geared up to tour, playing at the Langerado Music Festival in Florida this weekend. Also headlining that festival is Ben Harper, whose album Both Sides of the Gun is the only new addition to this weeks charts. I've never been a big fan, but I enjoy his work with the Blind Boys of Alabama. Check out the live show the two did together that Muzzle of Bees recently posted. The only other real item of note is that the TV On The Radio album that is in its reportedly "Unmastered" form is being shared more than the reported finished product, which has also leaked. Hopefully this does not result in two wildly different versions of the album, for dicks to insist that the one that was never released is far better than the one everyone else has heard.
Hope everyone has a good time this weekend at whatever concerts they're attending. I think that the most interesting stuff is actually early next week, with the weirdos in the Animal Collective at the Epicentre on Tuesday and Robert Walter's Super Heavy Organ bringing the funk back to the hometown on Thursday at Winston's.
