M10 show week 147

 

Alright, I am recovered from my rant of Wednesday night and am ready to get on with the regular M10 countdown- and I am taking the unusual expedient of going two years back to target year 1977 this week...

Elvis: Well, why'd that be?

Because my friend, with one single exception of a song that moved up 4 (Neil Diamond's Desiree), every one of the songs for January 7th, 1978 (since they had a freeze week on the first) moved up only one spot!  This way, we have the right week AND a moving chart!  Also, we have a first of 2025 M10with but one debut- a song my son KC put me on to!  Here's bluesman Robert Finley at # 10...

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Now before we get to that, here's some of 2024's M10 top ten!

10- Shannon and the Clams, What You're Missing.  Topped the chart for 2 weeks in July.

9- Juliana Hatfield, Secret Messages. The runner up to the above act for Big New (to me) Act of 2024, this hit #1 for 2 weeks in March.

8- Linkin Park, Heavy Is The Crown. The second of 2 consecutive #1s for LP, this took the heavy crown in late October.

7- Leon Bridges, That's What I love. This followed the above song for a couple of weeks in November.

6- Shannon and the Clams, Real Or Magic.  The first of their two #1s hit for a month in April and May.

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Hopefully, ya didn't mess up yer links this time...

Yeah, my hope as well.  So this week in 1977, we had three 9-spot movers and 2 eight-rung movers.  So our top five in week one of 1977:

5- Barry Manilow, Weekend In New England.  In a couple weeks this would officially be the original M10's first #1.  Up to 34 this week, it would peak 73 in Australia, but 9 in North America.

4- The Jacksons, Enjoy Yourself.  Michael and his bros would peak 6 here, 5 in Canada- but AWOL in Australia.

3- Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Night Moves.  Up to 35 this week, the first of the 9-spot movers peaked at 25 Australia, 5 in Canada, and 6 here.

2- Stevie Wonder, I Wish.  Stevie was about to embark in a golden age, and this one, climbing to 13 this week, would top the North American charts and get to #51 in Australia.

And this week's top dog:

1- Rose Royce, Car Wash.  From the movie of the same name (wish wasn't near so memorable), this one dropped in at #13 this week; it would peak 1 in North America and #12 in Australia.

Hey, ya fergot the #1s this week...

So I did.  Go for it!

Shure.  In the US of A, on Cashbox at least, it was Marilyn McCoo an' Billy Davis, aka two of the Five Dimensions, with You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)...

Never one of my favorites, BTW...

It also swept North America, and another #12 in Aussie-land.

Meanwhile, Canada was still stuck on Rod Stewart's Tonight's The Night, which was top a couple weeks back in the US, and made it ta three in Australia.  

An' Australia was stuck even farther back with Chicago an' If You Leave Me Now, which swept all the charts at differnt times.

Wow, that list wuz about as easy as it gets!

Great timing for you!  My #1 for this week in 77 would be Bread's Lost Without Your Love, up 4 to #23 this week...

What about '78?  Jus' because nobody moved don' mean ya ain't got a fave there...

True enough, I suppose... maybe Player's Baby Come Back, would've been a tight race...

Anyway, the final five...

5- Real Estate, Somebody New.  Their 4th straight #1, it hit in late May.

4- Lucinda Williams, While My Guitar Gently Weeps.  My vote for Best Beatles cover ever, she had a 3-week run at the top in December.

Which ya can't get on other charts!

So true!

3- Beabadoobee, Beaches.  My favorite pure fun video of the year, she hit the top for 2 weeks in August/September.

2- Decemberists, Long White Veil. This would finish tied for #13 all time, and grace the top spot in most of August.  

And the top M10 tune of 2024...

HOLD ON!  Suspense, remember?  Lemme give the rest of the M10 first...

Have at it!

9- an' down 2, Matt Berry an' I Gotta Limit...

8- an' holdin' again, Linkin Park an' Cut The Bridge...

7- an' up 2, Japanese Breakfast an' Kokomo, IN...

6- an' down 1, Lucinda and her weepy guitar...

5- an' up one, Midlake an' Roscoe...

4- an' down one, Maggie Rogers an' Don't Forget Me....

3- an' up one, the Cowsills an' She Said To Me...

2- an' holdin', Geowulf an' Dreaming...

An' the same ol' #1....

Wait!  Shouldn't we stop for 'suspense'?

Whut suspense?  Everone knows it's gonna be...

...Junior Senior and Move Your Feet, for a third week!

Well, fine!  And now, the top M10 song of 2024, and 8th all time- from one week in April at the top, and-4 weeks later- one week in May....

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That's the show, see you next time!

The blood on the hands

 I know I'm supposed to be typing up this week's M10 post now.  But I'm not.

By now, most of you know what has happened in NOLA and Vegas.  Let me bring up things I've only seen on X so far.  

-The very-little reported fact that closed circuit tv saw 3 men and a woman planting pipe bombs in New Orleans' Catholic Cathedral early this morning, which police found and exploded safely.  

-The fact that the Tesla blown up at Trump Las Vegas was built so well that, where a normal suicide car might have taken out several people, this vehicle contained the explosion so no one was killed but the idiot driving it.

-The attacker in NOLA was former Army- and while the networks show a list of the commendations he had, another source says he was reprimanded at least twice for extremist views, and was prevented from joining the National Guard for that reason.

-His bio shows a man who spent money like it was nothing, cheated, divorced twice- heavily in debt at this point. Wouldn't be too hard to radicalize a man like that.

-Apparently the Armed forces aren't willing in the Biden Era to follow up reports of radicalism, because of fear of being "racist".  Same thing that allowed the Fort Hood shootings.

-As I type, FBI and police have a large section of Houston (where he was supposedly from) cordoned off while they investigate  a possible sleeper cell he belonged to.

This is not going to be a "Muslims are poison" post.  Like everyone else, some are- some aren't.  What this is about is, how damn stupid it is that we have had political leaders so willing to compromise essential services- such as the FBI, CIA, and FEMA- that we cannot rely on them to do the simplest parts of their jobs correctly.  That our Armed Forces are so infected with DEI that they refuse to stop a threat because they might hurt someone's feelings.  That a city that had ALWAYS before made3 sure Bourbon Street was blocked off properly, allowed a F-150- a big, lumbering pickup truck- go go AROUND a police car parked in the street (but not on the sidewalk), and accelerate away before the officer inside woke up enough to react.  (I saw the video; the officer should have had the car running beforehand, and RAMMED the truck  before he tried to pass; instead, the truck was well out of the picture before the officer finally got out of his unit and pursued on foot.)  Let's also bring up that the chief of police in charge of the thing is a once-retired, once fired, Granny Clampett look alike, appointed by the latest in the series of idiots that NOLA seems "hell bent" to elect as Mayors.  Her latest notoriety was running over two pedestrians in August.

Then internet is all over the "this blood is on so-and-so's hands."  Guess what, America?  This blood is on YOUR hands.  Every one of you who vote in the same old pols who pack police forces, disaster agencies, etc., with political appointees who are trained to go after 'the other guy' instead of doing the job they need to be doing.  I'll even name you an example.  In California, Gavin Newsome promised in March 2023 to build 1,200 'tiny homes' at a cost of $625K A PIECE for the homeless.  He has not had ONE built.  In the meantime, Pennsylvania Amish went to Western North Carolina, having raised $300,000 from their own people, and built 12 tiny homes in 48 HOURS - $25K per, for the hurricane victims that FEMA is screwing over.

It ain't impossible to do the job.  You need to CARE.  And not about your own power. FEMA no longer cares.  They're too busy forcing inspectors to condemn the tiny houses and keep the homeless homeless, and checking yards for Trump for President signs.  The FBI doesn't care.  They're too busy finding unqualified women of color to run out in front of the microphones.  The Army doesn't care, they're too busy making sure the barracks are DEI.  And apparently the voters in many places are not; they're too busy 'voting the way my daddy and his daddy voted.'

So that's what I have to say.  Come get me, FBI, I don't care.  You'll only prove me right.