San Diego Serenade: Friday Charts

Here's the latest entry in the Friday Charts, looking at the most seeded albums at a file sharing community. Links take you somewhere related to the artist or album.

Gnarls Barkley = Worthy

1. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
2. The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
3. Built To Spill - You In Reverse
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
5. Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
6. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California (Single)
8. Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
9. Tool - Vicarious (CD Single)
10. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon

Several new additions since I last updated this list. Notably two Singles have made it onto the list, which is undoubtedly a good sign for how the albums by the Chili Peppers and Tool will fare. The Chili Peppers song, however, "Dani California" sounds about as phoned in as you can get. It sounds like the equivilent of one of those fanmade trailers that people made before the new Star Wars movies came out, where they would piece together old Star Wars movie footage and put a new narration over it to make a "new" trailer, except this time they did it with the old, bad Chili Peppers radio hits. Dani California has the generic bouncy rapped verse that the Chili Peppers have been passing off as "Funky" for the past eight years, and then a surprising transition to a heavier, sung chorus that later segues into an guitar solo that makes you think that John Frusicante may have been better off if he had stuck to the Hillel Slovak route he appeared to be on before Californication came out.

Also, the Gnarls Barkley song "Crazy", which I just heard for the first time recently, is one of those songs that the first time you hear it, you can fast forward in your mind to how you're still going to be hearing it 8 months later, as you think to yourself "Jesus, they're still playing this song?" but it doesn't really irritate you because it's that catchy. The Raconteurs have yet to make a solid impression on me, but I'm leaving the door open to be blown away at some point in time. I still don't really understand its designation as a Super Group. Maybe that is all the work of the agent for the guy who isn't Jack White, but em>was in another band, so I guess technically people might have heard of him.

I am dismayed by the Streets popularity.