"Look at all his music post thingies." --My High School Drama Teacher
Q: How many kids with ADD does it take to change a light bulb?
A: You guys wanna go ride bikes?
MP3's
Ok, MP3's on this blog (designated by the links that seem like maybe they're songs) are for sampling purposes. So, if you like something you find on this site go buy some stuff by that artist. Go see a show.
If you're not happy that I put an MP3 up on this blog, just email me to take it down and it'll be down.
All MP3's are up for 10 days. Or when I remember to get take them down.
If you want to email me to say hi, ask me to take something down, ask me to put something up (i.e. bands wanting me to check out their music), or anything else, email me at aodblog@gmail.com. You can remember it because it's the Appetite FOr Distraction blog!"But James, you say, why isn't it afdblog?" The answer is, of course, I didn't pay attention to the letters in the initials of my blog. Le sigh.
Yeah, I named today's post after the Hanson Christmas album. So what? Snow what? No no. Not that :)
I recorded this podcast before, during, and after shoveling my arms off. Listen to my chipper voice at the beginning when I didn't know just how much snow it was going to end up being. So cute!
***Featuring***
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Death Cab For Cutie
Fleet Foxes
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Nothing But Thieves
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Silversun Pickups
twenty one pilots
Vance Joy
X Ambassadors
A double A-side is the only thing that stayed at #1 for only 1 week in 1996. I'm pretty familiar with "You're Making Me High" and I think I'm listening to "Let It Flow" for the first time in my life. So I guess in the world of double A-sides, there's still one A-side that's slightly more A-side than the other A-side.
Toni Braxton - You're Making Me High/Let It Flow (7/27)
Last time The Chainsmokers were this high (or maybe ALMOST this high) on the chart, they had a song called "#SELFIE" which was either very catchy or ear-shreddingly annoying, depending on who you are.
I'm coming into this one with low expectations since the featured act and the name of the song are basically the same. Maybe this song will be about The Chainsmokers teaching ROZES how to spell "Roses"?
Ok that was pretty good, although I was confused about the plot. Does she end up with him? Or with someone that looks like him?
As I prepare to publish this episode, we are gearing up for what is predicted to be a HUGE snowstorm. So listen to the great tunes and look for the next episode soon. Being snowbound looks like it might allow for lots of podcasting time!
And if you're going to be hit by the storm, too, stay safe!
***Featuring***
Bob Dylan
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Death Cab for Cutie
The Eagles
Elle King
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Silversun Pickups
twenty one pilots
Vance Joy
X Ambassadors
A fun song with a fun video to boot. They're doing things right over across the pond. I feel like they're more likely to have just straight dance tracks chart really high. I wonder if they compile the charts differently.
A whopping THREE songs hit #1 for just one week in 1998. And I am VERY familiar with one of them. Enjoy the eclectic mix today!
Divine - Lately (11/28)
I don't know this one from the title, but now that it's playing, I suppose it kind of rings a bell. Maybe? I guess Divine were trying to fill the space between TLC and Destiny's Child? This song is pretty catchy. I like it!
Barenaked Ladies - One Week (10/17)
Winning the award for most appropriate title of a song for this feature, we have the song that really busted BNL into the mainstream. It was their first and only #1 and one of two Top 40 hits for the band (the other was "Pinch Me" a couple of years later.)
Mariah Carey - My All (5/23)
I don't know this Mariah Carey song, I don't think. I pretty much lost track of her until 2005 after "Honey" which was the single directly before this one. And actually, listening to the chorus, this sounds vaguely familiar. You know, I do tend to like MC songs.
Well here we are back again at the outset of a new year! I've made some decisions regarding bonus songs based on how the last couple of episodes of last year felt and so you'll notice more artists listed in the list below. It feels like a good decision.
***Featuring***
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
David Bowie
Death Cab For Cutie
Elle King
Flight of the Conchords
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Pearl Jam
Silversun Pickups
twenty one pilots
Vance Joy
X Ambassadors
Not actually in the top ten, but I always like to spend the first week of no new songs in the Top Ten playing mashups like this that review the previous year's hits. In my mind, this is the top of the heap. But that could be because this is who I first heard was doing this. I have yearly mashups by this guy going back to 2007!
Alright so here's the deal with Throwback Thursdays for the foreseeable future: Over New Year's Weekend, The SiriusXM station Pop2K (which plays songs released from 2000 to 2009) did a countdown of the songs that went to #1 in their target decade. But the way they did it was so fascinating. They did it by increasing tenure at #1. Counting down through the years. So we're going to do something similar here. But with songs from the 90's.
So the first week will be all the songs that spent 1 week at #1 in 1999. Next week will be 1998, etc. I think it will be fun.
The last song to spend 1 week at #1 in the 90's was this song from the Will Smith remake of the classic 60's Western TV show, Wild Wild West. It features an interpolation of Stevie Wonder's "I Wish" and is a lot of fun.
I couldn't find the actual music video on YouTube, but here's a performance of the song from the 1999 MTV Movie Awards (which would have been before the song went to #1 (I think the Movie Awards are at the beginning of the summer and the Music Video awards are right before school starts...I can check this...yes. They were held on June 5, almost 3 months before the song went to #1))
Will Smith featuring Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee - Wild Wild West (7/24)
And the other song that spent 1 week at #1 was this classic from Destiny's Child. This song is seriously so catchy. I think I prefer it to its thematic twin: TLC's "No Scrubs"
I'm always excited to see a song from the Countdown make the Top Ten, but this one feels like an especially satisfying achievment. I'm not really sure what has caused the surge in popularity for this song and album (which jumps up to #3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart) but I'm happy about it.
It's funny. I usually think of this as the last countdown of the year, but really it's the first countdown of the NEW year! So, Happy New Year and I hope you enjoy this countdown as much as I enjoyed making it!
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