MUSIC THREAD

I had to bring these posts back from the dead. "Crazy" is spending its eighth straight week atop the British Top 75 Singles chart, the longest run at No. 1 since "Love Is All Around" by Wet Wet Wet was the top song for 14 weeks in 1994.

http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/c/uk/single_charts.html (the chart)

http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/charts/comment.html (chart commentary)

Only 19 other singles have ever spent this amount of time at the top of the charts and it is only the 4th single in the last 20 years to top seven weeks. 'Crazy' is musical royalty indeed.

 

Has anyone heard the Raconteurs' (Jack White and friends) new album? The two songs I've heard I really dig, especially Steady as She Goes.

 

Yeah, I picked this up last week. I think it's a lot better than Get Behind Me Satan.

 

At this point, it seems like any music Jack Black makes sounds good to my ears.

 

Hoops mccan can't spell LeBron(labron?)

 

Del B, big pull and good call on Eric Lindell. He's tremendous. And the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars are really good as well. For those who don't know, klezmer is traditional yiddish music. Don't laugh. It's good.

 

A review I read gave in The Week gave it three stars out of four, and said that about 18 of the songs are really good, the other 10 are so-so. I've not heard it yet, but a friend who bought it said it was tremendous. If I get a hold of a copy, I'll send it your way.

 

I'd rate it higher than that. I look forward to hearing it every time I get in my car.

 

Plans is certainly good, but you should really listen to "Transatlanticism"

I would say that's probably one of the top 5 albums I own and is always making an appearance in my CD player. Every time I listen to it, I think a song is my favorite, then I change my mind and say the next one is my favorite, and so on pretty much throughout the entire album.

I think I've fallen asleep to that album about three times in the past week.

 

FuerteJ --
Are you sure he said "1810" for the Irish ballad? It sounds an awful lot like "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda," the great folk song about the Aussies at Gallipoli that's about events in WWI and was written in the 1970's or '80's. If not, try and get the title because it's interesting to me.

 

Huh? What do i have to do with this question? I'm not quite sure what you're talking about.

 

Sorry, I misread the quote function due to pre-caffeine murk.
I meant to aim that at Del B