M10 show week 7

 

 

 

Elvis:  Boss, you don' look so good...

 

Yeah, some kinda cold's dragging me a bit, but I had to save the M10 report for Friday morning, because I was busy researching a couple of items for it last night.  And the night before, it was trying to make a top ten when you have seven songs that SHOULD be (on a normal week) no lower than #3!  Luckily this is a written post and not a podcast (or I'd prolly break the 'cough button'), so- eventually- we'll be okay.

Well, maybe you... but what if I get yer cold?

 

Relax, Fauci says there's no evidence of transmission from real people to imaginary characters...

Well, thank God for th... hey!

 

Anyway, let's kick things off with our first debut at #10.  Brand new stuff from the upcoming album Through The Madness Vol. I, here's Maddie and Tae...

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So I was thinking about how the unique feature about the M10 is the rule that the songs can be from any year, as long as they are new to me... and I was wondering just how many songs from different eras that lets in!  I had to set a condition that new releases from old albums- such as Medicine Woman from Middle Of The Road, currently on the countdown- count, whereas re-releases of old songs from newly released box sets ( for example Elton John's The Girl On Angel Pavement) do not.  And with a suspicious eye towards some I might have messed up do to recordkeeping errors or plain dimwittery, I have the results right here...

But first...

The art o' suspense again, boss?

 But of course!  Last night, I realized something about two of our current M10 crop as I played them for Laurie, and how that added to my liking them in the first place.  First, go back and listen to Beach House's Pink Funeral , remove the vocals in your head, and tell me that isn't ELO, circa the lps Time or Secret Messages!

Then, move up to Matt Brady's Summer Sun, and imagine it being off a late 60's Byrds lp!

 

Yeah, I c'n get that...

 

And now, on to the other thing I had to research, and it has to do with the other debut at #8.  The lady singing it, I was first introed to in early 2020, in a lyric from Mo Kenney's Ahead Of Myself about listening to her.  A few months later, during the Cover Summer, she actually made the chart, partnering with Jakub Dylan on his cover of You Showed Me.  And now- ironically from a covers lp of her own, coming out soon, she hits the chart on solo!  Covering, of all people, Ryan Gosling and Dead Man's Bones, here is Cat Power...

 

 

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All right a'ready, you fixin' to reveal those ree-sults?

 

Yes, I am!  Setting the bar at 'must be before the current year or the year before', there have been 110 songs out of the 638 total M10 songs that meet the requirement- the oldest being the 1959 Graduation's Here by the Fleetwoods.  However, the number per year has been dropping- the last two years failing to break out of single digits.  In fact, while the overall percentage of "old songs" sits currently at 17.24% , there are two years- the half-year of 2015, and 2019- that together had a percentage of 30.21%;  half of the 46 songs that made the chart that first year were oldies!  But 2020 racked up only 9.9%, and last year was lower, at 8.9%

 

Runnin' out of oldies to try out...

 

Could be, but we'll see.  This year all ready is running at 25%...

 

Yeah, one outta four...

Meanwhile, over at Billboard, 25 Christmas songs dropped out of the hot 100 this week, making room for Elton and Dua's Cold Heart to pop back up from 20 to 7 (it did the same on the British Charts, 45 to 13), and Maneskin's Beggin' re-entered at 38.  Weird, wild stuff!  Buddy, hit the M10!

 

Yeah, an you go fetch a cough drop!  

9- droppin 3 in its 8th week, Geowulf's Open Me Up...

6- up 4, Pink Funeral...

7 (Medicine Woman), 5 (Summer Sun), 4, (The Explorer's Club an' Tragedy ), an' 3 (Eddie Vedder an' The Haves), all stuck in the same spot...

...but the top gets flipped with Beach House's ESP dropping ta 2, an' the new #1...

 

 

 ...the Manchester Orchestra, along with....

 ...Lucius, and the remix of Inaudible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Nicely done!  Now excuse me while I go lay down...

Pass me a cough drop before ya go, wouldja?