This one's comprised of songs from the past two weeks because last week I didn't use iTunes enough to be able to compile a Top 25 list. No commentary this time, either. I just feel like getting it out.

TOP 25 AIRPLAY THIS WEEK
[NEW] shows a new chart entry
[2 (1 wk.) > REENTRY < 24] shows a chart reentry and lists the number of weeks the song ( Read more... )

Friday, 10 August 2007
Tom Waits - "Road to Peace" from Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Grails - "Silk Rd" from Burning Off Impurities
Stars - "Reunion" from Set Yourself on Fire
Nicolle Meyer - "Nowhere by Mir" from the compilation GRLZ: Women Ahead of Their Time
Ut - "Ampheta Speak" from the compilation New York Noise, Vol 3: Music from the New ( Read more... )

No commentary this week. I'm tired.

TOP 25 AIRPLAY THIS WEEK
[NEW] shows a new chart entry
[2 (1 wk.) > REENTRY < 24] shows a chart reentry and lists the number of weeks the song was in the charts on its initial run(s)
[5 < 1] shows the leap in charts from one week to the next, as symbolized by the "less than" symbol
[4 > 17] shows the drop in ( Read more... )

Wednesday, 8 August 2007 (Better Off Dead)
Mission of Burma - "Heart of Darkness" from The Horrible Truth About Burma
Dwarves - "Speed Demon" from Thank Heaven for Little Girls
The Damned - "Smash It Up (Pts. 1 & 2)" from The Best of the Damned
The Left - "Attitudes" from Jesus Loves the Left: The Complete Studio Recordings

( Setlist here. )

A song that should've made these charts last week and was sadly neglected is a chart-topper this week, a number of last week's entries bounce all around the Top 25, and a healthy slab of new entries also appears. Stay tuned for iTunes -- Ian's Top 25 Airplay for the Week! To show you how you can be all that you can be without joining the Army, ( Read more... )

Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Flaming Fire - "Lemon Isis" from When the High Bell Rings
The Field - "A Paw in My Face" off of From Here We Go Sublime
Longineu Parsons - "Funkin' Around" from Spaced: Collected Works 1980-1999
Pain Teens - "Hangman's Rope" from Stimulation Festival
Kronos Quartet - "Sing Sing: J. Edgar Hoover" from Howl, U.S.A.
Neu! - "Hero" from ( Read more... )

Nothing for Friday -- nothing intrigued me enough that day. However...

Monday, 30 July 2007 (Staring at the Sun)
Burning Star Core - "When the Tripods Came" from Operator Dead ... Post Abandoned

The complete setlist from Staring at the Sun.1. Xela - "Humid at Dusk ( Read more... )

Wow, this was pretty pivotal to the earliest part of my youth. I present Manufacture's "Armed Forces" and "As the End Draws Near" from 1988. The latter song actually features the vocals of a young Sarah McLachlan five years before "Possession" came out. I've never seen the video for that one, but one of my earliest memories involves the video for ( Read more... )

A continuing obsession of one-hit pop wonders from solo female artists continues this week with the Number One peak, The Names still won't fall out of the Top Ten as dream-pop and Sixties music bounces back into the upper echelons of the chart, and a couple of punks hang around the lower end. Find out more on iTunes -- Ian's Top 25 Airplay for the ( Read more... )

Tuesday, 24 July 2007
The Outlaw Gang - "Funky Fast Bump" from Florida Funk: 45s from the Alligator State
Vanessa Kendrick - "90% of Me is You" from Florida Funk: 45s from the Alligator State
The Verve - "She's a Superstar" from Voyager 1
Old Time Relijun - "The Tightest Cage" from PDX Pop Now! 2007
Caribou - "Melody Day" from the Melody Day EP
Piano ( Read more... )