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Chart round-up: Mika in double-penetration shocker!
Posted: 12 Feb '07, 15:48
It’s pop, kids, but not as we like it. And it’s all over the charts like a bowl of cold custard tipped from a tenth-floor window onto the frail frame of a passing OAP. Sticky and yellow and just not proper.
Mika is top of both the singles and albums chart this week: his Life In Cartoon Motion album (review) beats off the competition from both Bloc Party’s A Weekend In The City (at two; review) and Fall Out Boy’s Infinity on High (at three; review) to romp to the top spot; all three are new entries, with the next new entry in the top 75 coming at 11. Congratulations, Lesley Garrett.
Of slightly more interest to DiS is Cold War Kids’ decent first-week placing of 35 for their Robbers & Cowards LP (review); they play London a fair few times this week, taking in Shepherd’s Bush Empire tomorrow and Koko Friday. Get along, if you can. Below them, at 47, is The Hours’ heavily-advertised Narcissus Road (review), while Lady Sovereign’s Public Warning (review) can only shuffle nonchalantly, hoodie up, to a worryingly low 58. Worse still, though, is the fortune of Noisettes: their actually good (honestly) LP What’s The Time Mr Wolf (review) only scrapes into the top 75, at 75. Guess supporting Muse at mega-sized venues counts for nothing these days.
In the singles chart, right below Mika’s ‘Grace Kelly’, is the new offering from Kaiser Chiefs. In an ideal world ‘Ruby’ would be number one – it is, after all, by far the lesser of two evils – but its placing at two is the band’s highest ever, so congratulations boys. You have to tumble all the way down to 34 for the next new entry: FHM’s High Street Honeys are there with their cover of ‘I Touch Myself’. Oh. And also. Dear. Long Blondes are three places lower with the ace ‘Giddy Stratospheres’, and Lily Allen’s ‘Alfie’ (is it just me that hears the Mr Blobby song underneath it?) is new at 44.
The rest of the chart – both charts – is shit. So don’t bother going to HMV to have a look. Just creep in, buy Badmotorfinger, and get the hell out. It’s the only right course of action left.
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hi brian!
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FHM High Street Honeys what now?
What?
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'Mika beats off the competition'
couldn't resist could you Diver!
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i have a theory about mika
and brian may,
mika from india? freddy mercury from india, brian may and freddy mercury went to vist freddys family once and brian may sowed his seed and mika is the son, thats why brian may loves mika!
my friend also says this is possible with times and such, hes a massive queen fan
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Mika
Was spawned in Lebanon - so a flawled but interesting theory.
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freddie
was from zanzibar actually...africa...i don't know why i know that
and i thought mika was middle eastern
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That theory could hold, except...
neither of them are from India.
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boooo
shows how much mika has passed through on the radar, i am almost certain i heard someone say he was from bombay.
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Maybe...
you heard somebody say that he bums gays?
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i really like The Noisettes album
yep.
Shame it is so low down. You'd think with them and The Gossip there'd be some sort of New Wave of Neo Blues 'scene' being hammered home.
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badmotorfinger
is a wicked album, but superunknown majestically pees all over it. Which incidently, may be the very action I'd choose to refrain from if I saw a Mika album on fire in the gutter
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i think you'll find
you're wrong. badmotorfinger is the better of the two, the first side of the album is as good a slice of sabbath inspired rock as any ever written, and the slightly more psychedlic second side has enough colour and imagination on it to match anything on superunknown.
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WRONG
Badmotorfinger pours a boiling hot cauldron of murky yellow shame all over Superunknown. There are some good songs on Superunknown, but it doesn't hang together particularly well as an album, whereas Badmotorfinger's possible THE perfect dirty greasy metal album.
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possiblY
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True. Although anyone with any taste should already own BOTH albums!
...surely?
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I wonder if Brian May will read this
If so, Brian, let me be the first (on this thread) to call you a cunt.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
And I'll be the second
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hold on hold on
in an ideal world kaiser chiefs would be number 1 and mika would be number 2 in the charts??
what sort of fucked up ideal world is that?
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meh
the charts mean nothing now. people are even trying to get 'roll with it' to number one.
it's morally wrong!
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what are all you gadabouts playing at?!
get down the shops and buy the Lady Sov LP, pronto!
p.s. hello there, apartheid-supporting Brian May.
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BRIAN MAY
YOU ARE A CUNT. A CUNT. A CUNTINGLY CUNTY CUNTY CUNT.
Do you know, I feel much, much better for that.
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haha
stick that in your blog and smoke it
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