Due to unforeseen... well, laziness... I'm still choosing who goes where on the countdown this week. But that's okay, since you won't see the post for another 15 hours or so, anyway. Of course it may take that long... our new, complex-chosen internet service kinda takes its sweet time hooking anything up, so...
Elvis: Whut, so that's yer excuse? Yer just gonna mail it in?
No, no, I was hoping to wow you all with a great lead in from target year 1981, but this week's chart was a bit... well, underwhelming...
Oh, wunnerful... but ya got a backup plan, yes?
Working on it- I finally figured out how to get my Spotify top artists for the last year! Here's that top 10...
10- Built To Spill
9- Hazel English
8- Real Estate
7- Dent May
So how many more songs do we gotta listen to before...
Six, now shut up so I can finish the "Backup plan", dipstick!
Mumblemumblemuttergrumble...
6- Alvvays
5- Linkin Park
4- Duran Duran
3- Geowulf
2- Lucius
1-
...Beach House!
That soun's more like an all-time list, ask me...
I was thinking the same, until Linkin Park showed up at 5. They also have my top genres- this was a little more puzzling. 10 was "Noise Pop", which is basically shoegaze, which means Alvvays and Dinosaur Jr. 9 was Soft rock; 8 was dream pop, both of which pretty well explain themselves. 7 was Indie pop, which is basically all of the below, just not on major labels. 6- is Dreamo, which made me wonder what the difference is in this and Dream pop- a site says, "blends dream pop and indie rock elements with a nostalgic, dreamy and hazy sound"- which is pretty much Real Estate territory. 5 is "indietronica", which you can probably figure out, and includes (apparently) a host of acts that make the M10 like Beach House, Two Door Cinema Club, and currently the Black Keys. 4 is Album Rock (cue Ace Frehley); 3 is Chamber pop- described as ""intimate, precisely arranged songs with rock's sweep but without its bluesy clamor." They list a massive for example: the Beach Boys Pet Sounds lp. I suspect this is another category Beach House slips into. 2 was "Rock". And the top was Indie rock, so there's that.
All terribly fascinatin', but mebbe we should just get ta 1981...
Yeah, this won't take long. This week in 1981, we all were stuck with Olivia Newton-John's Physical at the top. Not only an across-the-board #1, but across the board THIS week! For me, it would have been at the deepest sub-basement, under a pile of old garbage and dusty hefty bags full of long forgotten offscourings.
Tell us how ya feel, why dontcha?
Chill, I have one more to listen to before I make the list. Let me continue...
In addition to that flatline circumstance, there were only THREE songs in the top 40 that moved 5 or more spots! They were:
3- Don McLean, Castles In The Air. Most successful in Australia at a #11 peak, it got to 31 here (much higher for me), and didn't chart on the Canada main chart, but made #2 on their Adult Contemporary. Up 5 to 38.
2- The Cars, Shake It Up. Top ten everywhere- 10 in Australia, 7 in Canada, 4 here- it was up 6 to 33.
1- Eddie Rabbit, Some One Could Lose A Heart. A #1 country song, it made 15 on the hot 100, 4 on Canadian country, but nowhere on either the main Canadian or Australian charts.
Eddie don't get a picture?
When Eddie moves up 16 spots instead of six, he will. In the meantime, I do have the chart done!
10- Leon Bridges down from 3 in week #9 with That's What I Love...
And the first new debut at #9- more Linkin Park: Cut The Bridge
This week in 1981 I was a single mother of a 3 week old baby with colic! I didn’t listen to music for quite awhile. 😂. Fun post.
ReplyDelete1981 seems to have not been a real fun year...
DeleteI'm not lazy I just have zero motivation, at times thankfully not the same as being lazy. Thanks for the clips nice music to listen to while I read and comment
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