AMF Chart Week 52
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AMF Chart Week 52
Welcome to the last chart of annus horibilis 2016. Happy New Year to all and thank you for taking the time to listen to all our nominations.
A great bunch of movement this week - with Nick Cave taking the top spot whilst ATCQ hang on to the two remaining spots of the podium.
Two new entries have performed very well, grabbing 4th and 5th : Old 97's Texan alt-country (infused with some good indie rock) and multi-talented Childish Gambino, who also gets a second entry through Mcch.
Guillaume Perret's Heavy Dance makes it to the Hall of Fame, quite a tremendous result for a relatively unknown artist.
About our top artist this week and his song :
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Allmusic) : Eclectic and powerful post-punk band that's steadily evolved under the leadership of one of rock's most celebrated songwriters.
I Need You (Pitchfork)
“I don’t believe in an interventionist god,” Nick Cave sang in the opening track of 1997’s The Boatman’s Call, “But I know, darling, that you do.” Until now, it was the starkest, saddest album of Cave’s career. On this song, “Into My Arms,” he employed the second person to counterbalance his own nihilistic tendencies, using another person as a conduit to a spirituality and purity he could not achieve himself. “Into My Arms” was a love song by an artist inherently skeptical of the form, praying to a God he didn’t necessarily believe in. But there was a palpable sense of faith in it, one that transcended Cave’s principles and logic and gave him peace. “I believe in love,” he sang firmly, “And I know you do, too.”
“I Need You” is the stirring core of the Bad Seeds’ devastating new album, Skeleton Tree. Here, Cave is at a loss for words. “Nothing really matters,” he repeats, leaning on the hard R of “matters,” as if to further pronounce the distinct lack of poetry in the phrase. The words bend and break the more he uses them; Cave continues saying more with less, the tenderness in his voice filling all the negative space. “Nothing really matters when the one you love is gone,” he sings at one point, honing in on the song’s gravitational pull: the void left when our love is no longer directed at a living thing but rather at a memory. Though just a moment later, Cave subverts that notion as well: “We love the ones we can/Because nothing really matters.”
In a sense, “I Need You” is a song about hopelessness—a meditation on the inescapable meaninglessness of a world defined by chaos and loss. But the song’s other central mantra challenges that with a simple plea for human connection. “I need you,” Cave sings over a sustained major chord, as his band’s wordless backing vocals sweep over him like a wave: “In my heart, I need you.” Cave drifts between half-recalled memories, placing them into a more fragmented mindset than his trademark, character-filled storytelling. He sees a red dress falling, a black car waiting. He’s standing in the doorway; he’s in line at the supermarket. The images never coalesce into a clear narrative, but they amount to something even greater: a lifetime flashing before your eyes, so sad and real that it could be your own.
Week 52 Chart
Hall of Fame
PS - the chart will run until Sunday.
A great bunch of movement this week - with Nick Cave taking the top spot whilst ATCQ hang on to the two remaining spots of the podium.
Two new entries have performed very well, grabbing 4th and 5th : Old 97's Texan alt-country (infused with some good indie rock) and multi-talented Childish Gambino, who also gets a second entry through Mcch.
Guillaume Perret's Heavy Dance makes it to the Hall of Fame, quite a tremendous result for a relatively unknown artist.
About our top artist this week and his song :
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Allmusic) : Eclectic and powerful post-punk band that's steadily evolved under the leadership of one of rock's most celebrated songwriters.
I Need You (Pitchfork)
“I don’t believe in an interventionist god,” Nick Cave sang in the opening track of 1997’s The Boatman’s Call, “But I know, darling, that you do.” Until now, it was the starkest, saddest album of Cave’s career. On this song, “Into My Arms,” he employed the second person to counterbalance his own nihilistic tendencies, using another person as a conduit to a spirituality and purity he could not achieve himself. “Into My Arms” was a love song by an artist inherently skeptical of the form, praying to a God he didn’t necessarily believe in. But there was a palpable sense of faith in it, one that transcended Cave’s principles and logic and gave him peace. “I believe in love,” he sang firmly, “And I know you do, too.”
“I Need You” is the stirring core of the Bad Seeds’ devastating new album, Skeleton Tree. Here, Cave is at a loss for words. “Nothing really matters,” he repeats, leaning on the hard R of “matters,” as if to further pronounce the distinct lack of poetry in the phrase. The words bend and break the more he uses them; Cave continues saying more with less, the tenderness in his voice filling all the negative space. “Nothing really matters when the one you love is gone,” he sings at one point, honing in on the song’s gravitational pull: the void left when our love is no longer directed at a living thing but rather at a memory. Though just a moment later, Cave subverts that notion as well: “We love the ones we can/Because nothing really matters.”
In a sense, “I Need You” is a song about hopelessness—a meditation on the inescapable meaninglessness of a world defined by chaos and loss. But the song’s other central mantra challenges that with a simple plea for human connection. “I need you,” Cave sings over a sustained major chord, as his band’s wordless backing vocals sweep over him like a wave: “In my heart, I need you.” Cave drifts between half-recalled memories, placing them into a more fragmented mindset than his trademark, character-filled storytelling. He sees a red dress falling, a black car waiting. He’s standing in the doorway; he’s in line at the supermarket. The images never coalesce into a clear narrative, but they amount to something even greater: a lifetime flashing before your eyes, so sad and real that it could be your own.
Week 52 Chart
Hall of Fame
PS - the chart will run until Sunday.
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I'm having somewhat of a problem with the ability to vote. Is anyone else? I like to vote as I listen. As of the middle of last week when I cast that first vote I'm locked out and can't vote again. Hope this can be fixed so that I can vote for more songs on this weeks list.
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yes, submitted vote for two songs now am locked out.Rdwdbob wrote:I'm having somewhat of a problem with the ability to vote. Is anyone else? I like to vote as I listen. As of the middle of last week when I cast that first vote I'm locked out and can't vote again. Hope this can be fixed so that I can vote for more songs on this weeks list.
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Sorry my mistake ! I suspect it was because I didn't tick the "allow to vote again" box. Fixed now, try again
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I'll start the nominations then !
TRAAMS - A House on Fire - the band says it better than me : "We wanted a relentless big’un with a handful of chanty melodies - one to hang around the end of our live sets.”
and
Pissed Jeans - The Bar is Low
TRAAMS - A House on Fire - the band says it better than me : "We wanted a relentless big’un with a handful of chanty melodies - one to hang around the end of our live sets.”
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Pissed Jeans - The Bar is Low
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Thanks!spiritualized wrote:Sorry my mistake ! I suspect it was because I didn't tick the "allow to vote again" box. Fixed now, try again
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Sleigh Bells - 'Hyper Drive'
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OK here's 3 from 2017, one from each full day of the year, can't promise I can keep this up:
British Sea Power - Bad Bohemian (Played on 6 music yesterday, now on spotify)
The xx- Say Something Loving (00:00 2/1/17)
London Grammar - Rooting for You (1/1/17)
British Sea Power - Bad Bohemian (Played on 6 music yesterday, now on spotify)
The xx- Say Something Loving (00:00 2/1/17)
London Grammar - Rooting for You (1/1/17)
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Also is it just me or does the Grandaddy track not seem to work on the playlist? Haven't got wifi to check properly at the minute.
Now home and working even without Wi-Fi.
Now home and working even without Wi-Fi.
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No better man to continue the one song a day than
Jens Lekman - What's That Perfume That You Wear?
https://soundcloud.com/secretlycanadian ... you-wear-2
May have tomorrow's lined up:
https://twitter.com/Elbow/status/816668 ... 70688?s=09
Jens Lekman - What's That Perfume That You Wear?
https://soundcloud.com/secretlycanadian ... you-wear-2
May have tomorrow's lined up:
https://twitter.com/Elbow/status/816668 ... 70688?s=09
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The Shins - 'Name For You'
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SecondedRdwdbob wrote:The Shins - 'Name For You'
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Last call for nominations.... if no one nominates, I will add
Govern by Contagions - At the Drive In
Nothing Personal - Dinosaur Pile-up
Govern by Contagions - At the Drive In
Nothing Personal - Dinosaur Pile-up
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David Bowie - No Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... Igdid8dsC8
Sublime ! As beautiful as Where are we now ? This voice...this voice...
Charles X - Soul Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... Igdid8dsC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... Igdid8dsC8
Sublime ! As beautiful as Where are we now ? This voice...this voice...
Charles X - Soul Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... Igdid8dsC8