February 2018

Cool, got some motion on the charts, good songs moving through, some fresh stuff to listen to after a few months of stagnation and boredom.  

Mastadon is due an album this year, I think, but I haven't paid much attention to :"Emporer of Sand".  I will have to give that a listen because the second song from it just charted, while "Show Yourself" hangs on a while longer!  There might be more good stuff on that album!  I just wasn't grabbed by it and let it fall by the wayside.

Dinosoul rules, though.  Kinda makes me sad - will I ever hear from this band again?  It's a local band from in or around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Those two songs are just lush and beautiful.  The soaring chorus on "Dimension" is, to me, awesome sounding.  I have always loved songs with similar guitar effects - its as if a guitar moans, or weeps, or laughs.  Those sustained notes with that particular effect is wicked.  I love that woman's voice - it is almost masculine, and deeper than most female singers'.  It has sort of a commanding quality, as if she has grabbed your attention, but still has a sense of vulnerability.  

Or maybe not.  I just love those two songs and the one (two?) others from that EP that is uploaded to youtube.  Dinosoul - what a cool name, too.

The Twenty One Pilots song, like all others in this chart, has been around for a while. Maybe more than a year by now.  It just takes so long for me to be conscious of some songs.  This one grabbed me when I heard it on the radio, not for the first time.   I did not feel that way the first time I heard it, for some reason.

It was ten years ago when the Silversun Pickups were at their peak.  For two albums in a row, nearly every song was excellent.  I really enjoyed them and they made me feel good during some trying times - it was a time of transition for me.  Anyway, they were HUGE in the eastern US - DC, Philadelphia, et al. 

I'm thirsty.  I will end this discussion now.  


February 2018

1. "Illusion", by Dinosoul 2, 1, 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOXkH_xaEpg

 2. "Dimension", by Dinosoul 1, 1, 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYYaSwWX5VQ

 3. "Sultan's Curse", by Mastodon -, 3, 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og39iIBeOHI

 4. "Heavy Dirty Soul", by Twenty One Pilots -, 4, 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_9Kf0D5BTs

 5.  "Show Yourself", by Mastodon  5, 1, 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUGda7GdZPQ

February 2017
1. "Don't Let Me Down", by Chainsmokers featuring Daya 1, 1, 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io0fBr1XBUA

2. "Mountain at My Gates", by Foals 3, 2, 2 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_EIE5f2t6M

3. "Also Am I", by 36 Crazyfists 2, 1, 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLkm-Bpkgv4

5. "Joyride", by Chevelle 5, 4, 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=710aT-Uj_7c
4. "Shock Me", by Baroness 3, 1, 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS5osAdTnm0


February 2008

1. "Once Beautiful", by Last Dance
2. "I Get It", by Chevelle
3. "Because of You", by Battery Cage
4. "If", by Ken
3. "Well Thought Out Twinkles", by Silversun Pickups



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