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Showing posts with label We Are Scientists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label We Are Scientists. Show all posts
Dec 29, 2010
Year-End Top Songs 50 - 26
In case you've missed it... Here's songs 100 through 76 and 75 through 51.
Aug 1, 2009
TMJ's Weekly Chart: Mariah gets a 5th
It's 5th week at #1 for Mariah Carey as "Obsessed" doesn't seem to go anywhere any time soon. Runner-up Mary J. Blige is making her way up with "The One (Feat. Drake)" and Sharam gets the greatest point gain for second week in a row as "She Came Along (Feat. Kid Cudi)" jumps to #3 this week. Kings Of Leon round up the top 5 as "Frontier City" moves up a spot to a new peak and "Closer" falls 3 after 43 weeks on the chart.Big jumps for "Kings Of Medicine" by Placebo and "Crazi" by Sharam. Yeah Yeah Yeahs ("Heads Will Rolls") and The-Dream ("Can't Wait To Hate You") also make big jumps to land in the top 50 this week. Drake came short of being the biggest jump but it's good enough as "Best I Ever Had" leaps to #13. On the other hand, the biggest jump of the week is Cobra Starship's "Good Girls Go Bad (Feat. Leighton Meester)" but the song is still lingering in the lower half of the chart.
Two hot shot debuts within the top 50 as David Guetta leads with "Sexy Bitch (Feat. Akon)", probably his first song to really catch my attention since "The World Is Mine" came out a few years ago. Mariah Carey follows with the Jump Smokers Remix to "Obsessed". Jump Smokers' other appearance on the chart is their "Jump" remix by Flo Rida featuring Nelly Furtado. Some more new tracks from Placebo's new album Battle For The Sun and Bloc Party returns with "One More Chance" remixed by Alex Metric.
We Are Scientists rule the recurrent chart for a third consecutive week with "What's The Word". I'm thinking this should have been #1 when it made its rounds on the main chart.
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Now playing: The Black Eyed Peas - Alive
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May 24, 2008
Mar 30, 2008
We Are Scientists: "Brain Thrust Mastery" Review
7 out of 10
If a good sense of humor is indeed mankind’s last line of defense against a crumbling universe, there can be few bands as adept at dodging the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune as We Are Scientists. When our sun implodes and all we know on Earth dies, you can bet that Keith Murray and Chris Cain will be breathing nitrous oxide in an underground bunker, laughing their tits off as they dictate another pithy press release about spending the last year in a fat camp, a drying-out clinic and a race-car school. Yet, for all their willful irreverence – and how else can you describe staging self-help seminars before your gigs? – there’s nothing especially funny about WAS’ music. No, what WAS specialize in is fun.
‘Brain Thrust Mastery’, their second major-label effort, positions them somewhere between a floppy-fringed, indie-pop Foo Fighters and a dive bar Duran Duran – which, by the sounds of things, is exactly where they want to be. ‘Ghouls’ might open proceedings with a malaise of throbbing claustrophobia, but even amid its ho-humness you can still practically see the tunes approaching over the Crayola-hued horizon. Going by the sum of its parts, ‘After Hours’ – a playful, chirpy love song to a lock-in – shouldn’t amount to much, and yet its four minutes coast by on a wave of pure charm. That’s nothing, however, compared to ‘Lethal Enforcer’, a Pimms-drinking, shoulderpad-sporting beast that lurks underneath lampposts surrounded by dry ice and cigarette smoke, staring at attractive women longingly and trying to be Spandau Ballet. That’s just fucking awesome.
Continuing in this vein is ‘Chick Lit’, a ruffle-collared slice of pure electro-pop filth that you’ll be sweating beer out of your bloodstream to on a weekly basis should they get around to releasing it as a single. Even if the skronk of distant saxophones on ‘That’s What Counts’ is questionable, it wasn’t enough to put us off its breezy, cheesy, circa-1983 aceness. However, if rolled-up dinner jacket sleeves and capsized yachts aren’t your thing, fret not. There’s more than enough twitchy good-time rock n’roll here to tide you over. The picks of which are ‘Impatience’, with its lung-bursting chorus and building-block drums and the jerky, infectious ‘Let’s See It’.
WAS seem to understand the inherent ridiculousness of being in a rock n’roll band, and even appear to revel in it. Just because ‘Brain Thrust Mastery’ doesn’t attempt to shoehorn some hamfisted social commentary or poverty-ending rhetoric into its 11 tracks doesn’t make it lightweight indie fluff; far from it – We Are Scientists are serious about having fun.
Source: NME.com
If a good sense of humor is indeed mankind’s last line of defense against a crumbling universe, there can be few bands as adept at dodging the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune as We Are Scientists. When our sun implodes and all we know on Earth dies, you can bet that Keith Murray and Chris Cain will be breathing nitrous oxide in an underground bunker, laughing their tits off as they dictate another pithy press release about spending the last year in a fat camp, a drying-out clinic and a race-car school. Yet, for all their willful irreverence – and how else can you describe staging self-help seminars before your gigs? – there’s nothing especially funny about WAS’ music. No, what WAS specialize in is fun.
‘Brain Thrust Mastery’, their second major-label effort, positions them somewhere between a floppy-fringed, indie-pop Foo Fighters and a dive bar Duran Duran – which, by the sounds of things, is exactly where they want to be. ‘Ghouls’ might open proceedings with a malaise of throbbing claustrophobia, but even amid its ho-humness you can still practically see the tunes approaching over the Crayola-hued horizon. Going by the sum of its parts, ‘After Hours’ – a playful, chirpy love song to a lock-in – shouldn’t amount to much, and yet its four minutes coast by on a wave of pure charm. That’s nothing, however, compared to ‘Lethal Enforcer’, a Pimms-drinking, shoulderpad-sporting beast that lurks underneath lampposts surrounded by dry ice and cigarette smoke, staring at attractive women longingly and trying to be Spandau Ballet. That’s just fucking awesome.
Continuing in this vein is ‘Chick Lit’, a ruffle-collared slice of pure electro-pop filth that you’ll be sweating beer out of your bloodstream to on a weekly basis should they get around to releasing it as a single. Even if the skronk of distant saxophones on ‘That’s What Counts’ is questionable, it wasn’t enough to put us off its breezy, cheesy, circa-1983 aceness. However, if rolled-up dinner jacket sleeves and capsized yachts aren’t your thing, fret not. There’s more than enough twitchy good-time rock n’roll here to tide you over. The picks of which are ‘Impatience’, with its lung-bursting chorus and building-block drums and the jerky, infectious ‘Let’s See It’.
WAS seem to understand the inherent ridiculousness of being in a rock n’roll band, and even appear to revel in it. Just because ‘Brain Thrust Mastery’ doesn’t attempt to shoehorn some hamfisted social commentary or poverty-ending rhetoric into its 11 tracks doesn’t make it lightweight indie fluff; far from it – We Are Scientists are serious about having fun.
Source: NME.com
Mar 26, 2008
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