Chart round-up: nobody loves you, Chris Cornell
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Hands up everyone who actually cares about the charts this week! Yup, you saw me alright, keeping my hands under my ample ass. It’s because I don’t care, really, and that’s why it’s taken until nearly seven in the pm to get our weekly Chart Round-Up rounded up and ready. What? We’re busy here, okay. You wanna do my job? The truth? You can’t handle the truth. Et cetera.
One and two stay the same on the singles front: Rhianna sings about keeping the rain off her silver paint with ‘Umbrella’, while Mutya Buena (surely someone commented last week that she sounds increasingly like a continental chocolate snack?) rapes the corpse of Lenny Kravitz with her ‘Real Girl’ debut solo effort. What, he’s not dead? What’s he doing allowing this shit, then?!
Highest new entry: Enrique Iglesias with ‘Do You Know’. It has a ping-pong ball in it! Genius. Twat. The White Stripes are at 13 with ‘Ikcy Thump’; their album of the very same name is reviewed here. Elsewhere on the rawk front, Queens Of The Stone Age score a hit at 19 with ‘3’s & 7’s’. ‘Sick, Sick, Sick’ is better. Yup. Klaxons’ rubbish cover of ‘Not Over Yet’ (if only it were, for good) debuts at 28.
They’re also at 75 with ‘Golden Skans’. I like that song better.
Albums: the top three is all new, which is pretty fresh from this perspective. Rhianna is at one with Good Girl Gone Bad (she’s got a whiff of that Lynx Vice, presumably); Biffy Clyro impress at two with Puzzle (read DiS’s opinion here); and The Twang swagger their way to three with their debut long-play platter, Love It When I Feel Like This. We’d love to tell you how we feel about the record, but no cunt sent it to us. Their people clearly know us too well, already.
Elsewhere in the top ten, Dizzee Rascal’s Maths & English makes seven (it’s a bit meh), Marilyn Manson’s Eat Me, Drink Me proves a hit with the faux-disenfranchised at eight (it’s a lot meh), and ol’ Mutya’s in at ten with her debut album. It has the same title as her single. Jeepers!
Hank Marvin is at 13, Genesis at 14 and Bruce Springsteen at 21… what the fuck is going on? Wiley fails to match the success of is former Roll Deep colleague Dizzee: Playtime is Over only makes 71 on the albums chart.
That’s still a place above Chris Cornell, though, whose Carry On tumbles a mighty 47 places, from 25 to 72. Carry on, Chris, all you like. It doesn’t seem like anyone’s bothered.
Awww man, don’t cry… Here, here’s a picture of Kim rocking out to make you feel better. If that fails, you could always sniff my palms...
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Couldn't you just download the Twang album off of soulseek?
Then you could rip it all you want. Hey presto, bob's your uncle. Swayze.
Isn't that illegal?
I won't stand for it!
Must be really crap
as even NME didn't think much of it and said that they are rubbish and they have been their most vocal (only?) supporters.
Bruce Springsteen at 21… what the fuck is going on?
FUCK YOU, DIVER
It's only illegal...
...if you share. Sharing your files is illegal. Sharing is bad, m'kay.
yeah Diver
your apparent negativity towards this fact is pretty offputting. Is he too old for you? Doesn't appeal to the news-reading demographic?
Even so, why is this placing shocking? Any fucking week of the year you'd expect Springsteen to be charting high. Plus the fact that its father's day soon, something pretty clear from even the most cursory glance at the sort of "non-indie" new releases this week. Do the math girlfriend
also
i love bruce
KIM THAYIL!!!!!
Great picture! That man could RIFF!!!!
I'm probably going to buy that Bruce album
for my dad for father's day.
I saw the Sessions band tour thingammy earlier in the year, and fucking brilliant it was too.
well
that twang review in the nme was done by a certain mr james jam - the one nme staffee that i would listen to and trust his taste in music.
he has an absolute grasp on what music should be and how he ever got a job with the nme when i regard him so resputably i'll never know.
but if you ever read anything by him - trust it. he doesn't just follow the the folly of what nme say is 'cool' - he just has taste, writes well and... yeah.
boy does that sound > fanboy! ack no, good writer though.
and the fact he posts here occasionally
had no bearing on your gushing praise of Monsieur Jam? Trying to get in his good books maybe?
Awwww, man.....
Awww, man...does your wife murmur Chris Cornell's name in her sleep or something? Because bitching about someone's misfortune like that just makes you look like a sad fuck.
Shellac were at number 98 this week!
That's about 12 copies!
Fuck
Boss. He's been peddling the same patriotic pish since my mum wore shellsuits - it's time we all moved on, sister.
he's not *that* patriotic
if you read the 'born in the USA' lyrics
he is very american, though, which isn't a bad thing
i like the new dizzee rascal.
so there.
I know loads of people who got it!
(Though admittedly we may all resemble to cast of high fidelity.)
I know!
That's why it's two places below Dark Side Of The Moon this week.
some people only listen to the choruses
i suppose
Jeez
It's meant in good humour.
Fathers Day, though, does explain Genesis up there.
Would Biffy have gotten so high
if Virgin had charged more than £8 for it?
Just joking around, mike
I don't hate you with your bruce remark
I love Chris Cornell
The man still has the best voice in R&R!!!
Have you listened to Carry On? or do you just mindlessly follow the charts and assume because a Cd doesn't chart well it's crap??
Kim Thayil is god but Chris Cornell is the voice of god!!! gargirl
Chris Cornell
Geez, not a very postive outlook on any of your reviews and barely a mention of Chris Cornell's new CD. I think you should give Carry On another try and at least point out the positives of the CD even if it is not your style. Chris uses various musical styles in the new CD and IMO does a great cover of Billie Jean. I think he has a strong fan base who will love anything he does.
Chris Cornell!!!!!!
Having an appreciation for all music, with Chris Cornell being at the top of that list... I don't think people are giving Carry on the praise it deserves. People want to hear what he was 10 or 20 years ago. Now if you choose to go to a Chris Cornell concert, I wouldn't be surprise if you came back with your mouth on the floor and completely blown away! He's covering everything from his last 20 years in music to his current release "Carry On" and he's never sounded better. His voice is in top notch condition and probably out of all the times I've seen him in concert over the years, this was the best one I've ever experienced!
Another example... Euphoria Morning.. Didn't do great as far as charts or sales, but will go down in musical history being the profound musical masterpiece it was, crossing all boundaries with pure raw emotional feelings. It was then that CC first jumped some major hurtles in rock 'n roll and only those disciples who chose to follow became enriched with his gift of music!
I admire Chris Cornell for not being afraid to re-invent himself again and again.. Let him go ahead and rattle some feathers!! Maybe it'll wake some of you up out there who are too shallow to admire the work this man has done, or maybe I'm wrong to assume that it's shallowness your demonstrating.. Maybe your just deaf!!
Sweetu4ria
Chris Cornell
I've been a Chris Cornell fan for a long time now, and I don't think I could handle listening to his music if he just brought the "Soundgarden sound" to the table with each album. I'd rather take a non chart topping album that brings my ears great music, than to just say I like an album because it's #1 in sales. "Carry On" has a song for each mood...I think it's definitely worth the purchase and years of listening.
Rubbish Mike, We love Chris, and Kim...
Euphoria Morning was a beautiful and very underrated effort, though 'Can't Change Me' was nominated for a Grammy. I've always enjoyed Cornell's vast talents, vocal, lyrical and instrumental. Definitely one of my favorite lyricist/vocalists of all time. I think the jury's still out on Carry On. Seems rather uninspired for CC but still better than most over-hyped releases these days.
That said, it was cool to see Kim Thayil's picture. Now there is one hell of a guitarist. I really miss Kim and the unique creation only he could have created--with Chris, Matt Cameron, Ben Shepherd and earlier Hiro Yamamoto. SG and Thayil's music has grown more and more interesting to me over the years, while other artists of the time seem stale and dated. There was something about the way Kim could grab me with those unusual riffs and time signatures and then punch me in the gut with that sitar-like wail that just seemed to fit perfectly with Chris' vocal textures and dark lyrical themes. Parts of Superunknown even have that intangible feel of Lennon & McCartney's best compositions; yet very heavy and unmistakably... drowned in Soundgarden.
top notch condition?
He has been a dedicated and hard-working performer. But Sweetu4ria, his voice is not in "top notch condition." Maybe you caught him on a better than average night. I don't think his voice sounds as smooth and strong as it did just a few years ago. According to Chris' post on chriscornell.com he's had to postpone a European tour because of his vocal chords. I hope he gives his strained vocal chords a much needed rest and rehabilitation and follows doctors' advice.
I'm with you, I admire his willingness to be inventive and try new approaches. But AFAIK you can't just invent new pipes yet! If I were him, (and certainly I'm not,) I would cut back on touring and focus on family, writing and recording for a few years. You've only got one throat and one body for life. Please take care of it, Chris!
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