Friday Charts - 4/29/05
Links take you somewhere to sample or read about or both!
1. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewere
2. Tool - 10,000 Days
3. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
4. The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
5. Tool - 10,000 Days (Different Format)
6. Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California (Single)
8. Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
9. Built To Spill - You In Reverse
10. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Let's do some loose associations all the way through this weeks top ten list. We'll see if it results in anything readable.
Gnarls Barkley(1) is the side project of DJ Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo. Tool(2) singer Maynard Keenan was also involved in a side project called A Perfect Circle. His side project was more successful than one that Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam(3) formed with his wife called "Hovercraft." You don't really hear about actual hovercrafts too much anymore. Was there a definitive peak in the hovercraft's existence? I suppose that the purpose of a hovercraft was pretty much to be a boat and transport people over large areas of water. In fact you might say that a hovercraft is the hardest way to make an easy journey(4).
That guy from The Streets pretty much seems like a Tool(5). With regard to tools, whatever happened to that guy that Jack White beat up from the Von Bondies? Do you think that when Jack White was forming his new band(6), he got drunk and loudly claimed that he was going to "Call up that guy from the Von Bondies whose ass I kicked and ask him to join the band" but then wussed out after dialing the first six numbers? If you looked at the Red Hot Chili Peppers'(7) career in terms of dialing someones phone number, I would say that they pretty much were going strong through the difficult "area code dialing" stretch, but then they just ended up blowing it and just hitting the # key by mistake over and over again.
If the Chili Peppers are the # key on your computer keyboard, I would say that Taking Back Sunday(8) would be the | key. I don't know what that symbol is, I never use it, but it definitely blows. Maybe the professor in the Da Vinci code could explain it to me, he was a professor of Symbology. Similarly, the main character in Kurt Vonnegut's "Jailbird" has a degree in Mixology. You would have to think that one of the first things they teach a mixologist would be ten easy tricks not to spill your drinks. It's as if a trained mixologist would be Built not To Spill(9). But if you don't spill your drinks, you'll probably get drunk, and getting drunk leaves you much more vulnerable to responding to loud chants of "Show Your Tits!" Unless you're in some crazy bar in the Land of the Dead where the drunken frat boys chant "Show Your Bones"(10) instead. People probably wouldn't worry about death so much if you just thought about it as a side project of living. Speaking of side projects we have Gnarls Barkley (1).
Wow, we just made a perfect circle.
