Week 9: S Bar X

Total plays as of December 14:
Total plays for the week of December 7-14: 385.

This week was pretty much just a Sebadoh lovefest, especially after I re-heard their cover of Nick Drake's "Pink Moon". Heck, I'm even thinking that my band should cover the same track (but in the vein of Sebadoh). So much Sebadoh listening that they managed to break into the leader board, while beforehand they didn't even break into the Top Artists list. While Sebadoh pushed out Bear McCreary to grab the 18th place position, Dinosaur Jr. were able to capitalize further on their previous gains, grabbing themselves a solid 13th place finish:


Looking further down the Top Artists list, we notice that this week marks the debut of J Dilla, who came in at 32nd place, while ...Trail of Dead and Oxbow both lost out. I wouldn't yet count-out Oxbow though, they're a consistent band who wont willingly be forced into the background, as opposed to ...Trail of Dead, whose best material is behind them, and for whom every listen is a reminder of how far they've managed to fall in the past decade.

Other than that, we have our top-songs list, which still remains unchanged, and continues to be dominated by Jefferson Airplane, and Silkworm.

Week 8: ...and as winter descends upon the town...

Total plays as of December 1:
Total plays this week: 448


Last week, continuing on from the week before, was dominated by Dinosaur Jr., and Farm particularly. But the renewed interest in Dinosaur Jr. ended up leading to a renewed interest in Sebadoh, who I'd only ever really appreciated before, and not listened to that much. (even though, thinking back, I've always had a copy of the Gimme Indie Rock! 7") I mean, I knew the choice cuts, like Cry Sis, or Gimme Indie Rock!, or The Freed Pig, but hadn't really begun to acquaint myself with much of the rest of their ouevre.
Doing so has given them the #1 spot this week, followed extremely closely by Dinosaur Jr.

So how does this resurgent interest in J and Lou affect the leader board? Well, as you can see, Dinosaur Jr. makes their first appearance after years of wandering the wilderness (read: that is, mostly haveing been listened to while I was in high-school before the advent of scrobbling). They are, unfortunately, not likely to hold on to this position for too long, as they're mired in the muck of the low-end of the top-artists, that most competitive of positions, since the leaders are fairly indisputable, save from themselves.

Which throws Dinosaur Jr up to the 14th place on the leader board. Other than that, the other new name to make an appearance this week is Bear McCreary, who has the benefit of an ouevre that lends itself to being listened to from beginning to end, and is just the bitchin'est soundtrack for anything you happen to be doing, whether it be playing videogames, or air-travel (as the case is with me).


Other assorted observations: Melvins overtook Madlib this week, but not so substantially that it couldn't easily be reversed. Bob Marley & the Wailers, Patton Oswalt, Shellac and Bear McCreary all fell one place this week in order to accommodate Dinosaur Jr.

Week 7: On The Farm

Well, I'm back from my trip. Do I have any interesting listening habits to show for it? meh. But regardless, I picked up the new Dinosaur Jr. last week, and I'm thinking that we're gonna see a pretty substantial bump from them sometime soon. Not to mention that I managed to catch Sonic Youth @ Terminal 5, and the new songs sounded pretty rockin'. I'm probably gonna end up picking that up before too long as well.

So over the last two weeks, I'm managed to accrue aboutand minus all previous plays, that's a total of 1033 over the past two weeks.

So what was I listening to over those two weeks? Well, let's take a look:
Now, I know this is only the last 7 days, and I missed last weeks entry, but this is the best I can do, dammit! We cans ee David Cross got a lot of plays, as I realized that it's especially comforting to listen to comedy while undergoing air-travel. It's like traveling with a hilarious friend, and getting to laugh at little jokes all to yrself. "Pissing in God's face for five hours..." indeed. But otherwise, it's Dinosaur Jr.'s week. I managed to catch 'em live at Terminal 5 in NYC, and gotta say, they were far from a disappointment. Since I hadn't bought their new album (I believe in brand-loyalty, and simply haven't had the time to hit-up my favorite record shop, so I never bought it, 'cause I could never bring myself to buy it anywhere else--except: ) so I bought it at the show, and got the sweet deal of the double-LP, w/ free trucker hat & digital download, for a cool $20. Point is: I'm giving the new album the ol' college try, since it's been awhile since I bought something new, I'm not gonna let my monies go to waste. But either way, it's easy enough on the ears that I'm not really fightin' it, and will probably go back and listen to their late-80's, early-90's material afterwards, to put it all in context.

But despite all those plays, they've managed to have little to no effect upon the leader board, or even the top 35 artists.