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mika don't look at him!

Chart round-up: Massive coat? Check. Massive hit? Check!

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by Mike Diver

He’s gone! Rocked from the top of the singles chart by those merry Leeds men, Kaiser Chiefs. Ladies, gentlemen, breathe again: Mika’s infuriatingly rubbish version of a dozen good songs condensed into four minutes of intolerable shite, ‘Grace Kelly’, has slipped from number one. To number two. Which is so much more appropriate, really. Don’t look into his eyes!

Beneath ‘Ruby’ (ruby ruby ruby) and that song is Kelis, whose Cee-Lo-aided ‘Lil Star’ leaps from 15 to three. Proof positive, there, that loads of TV advertising and a fucking massive coat can score you a hit. (We couldn't find a picture, but HERE is the video.) At four is Akon – a.k.a. that high-pitched man on the current Gwen Stefani single (number seven, ‘The Sweet Escape’) – with ‘I Wanna Love You’ while the final berth in the top five is filled by American bland-out rockers The Fray Now listen here, The Fray: your ‘How To Save A Life’ song would be TEN TIMES better if it actually did that. Like, if it told you how to save a life, like with CPR or something. But no, you just made a shit song shitter by missing a shit-obvious trick. And we hate you. Fuck off out of our country.

On a sorta DiS-centric tip, The Gossip make number 13 with that song that’s been all over the telly, just like the Kelis song. But Beth doesn’t have a big jacket. She is a bad-ass though. Don’t fuck with her, however big your jacket. She’ll mess it up, pull off the buttons and break the zipper and everything. Your jacket: owned. Lily Allen’s ‘Alfie’ falls from 20-something to 20-somethingelse, Klaxons‘Golden Skans’ is in the top 30, and so is ‘The Prayer’ by Bloc Party. The highest new entry comes from The Magic Numbers with ‘This Is A Song’. Yes, it is. And it’s at 36.

I don’t know who or what Hannah Montana is, but she/they is/are at 43 with ‘The Best Of Both Worlds’. I just like the name, really. Hannah Montana. Like Indiana Jones but, like, a girl. Yeah. Grinderman’s ‘No Pussy Blues’ debuts at 64. That’s three places above Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy’. Yay!

In the albums chart, Amy Winehouse overtakes you know who. At three is Snow Patrol’s Eyes Open, a non-mover from last week, while The Fray make four with their How To Save A Life album. It, the week’s highest new entry, has the same title as their single. I wish they’d fuck off. At five is Take That’s Beautiful World.

Very little nearing anything interesting has happened elsewhere in the albums chart: Explosions In The Sky make 58 with their new All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone LP, and… No, that’s it. Sorry.

About your business.


i still havent heard any mika

or the view, who everyone seems to hate on here. i need to listen to the radio once in a while.


Probably best not to

The View aren't as shit as everyone seems to like saying they are, but they're not exactly worth going out of your way to hunt down either


imagine a blander Kooks

try. really hard.


I was thinking about

getting some Korean friends together to start up a Kooks tribute band. Couldn't think of a decent name though


I lol'ed

and then felt bad.


The highest new entry

was in at 36 and it was the flippin' Magic Numbers. This is musical stagnation of the highest order! So how many people bought the crackin' Grinderman tune - at least 10?


"Fuck off out of our country"

Nice use of casual racism - very daily mail


The Fray

even now after all these years of a shite music industry I still find myself surprised that bands like this get signed.


Hee hee...

I'm not really that angry.
But they are awful.


the view

are the worst thing I've seen/heard in a long time. Absolutely NO redeeming features.


I don't know what is worse

That Mika song or the Kaiser Chiefs effort.


Kaiser Chiefs

Hands down - far worse


Tell that to Diver

who seems to be ecstatic that Ruby is at number 1.


I believe Kaiser Chiefs may the lesser of two evils for Mr Diver?

Me? I'd rather have Mika than those overblown, overpromoted knobcheeses from Leeds. At least he can sing, and lyrically its SLIGHTLY better

Mika is the lesser of two evils for me


He meaning Mika....

...of course, not Ricky Kaiser cock


True

Like picking between stalin or hitler?

Blair or Bush?


Fucking Shit.....

.....Pop music, its all fucking shit


i quite like the chorus to 'how to save a life'

...oh God, I feel dirty. Excuse me while I go listen to the new Decemberists for the 35th time this week to cleanse my mind and get my hipster points back. ahem.


I thought that song by The Fray

was RHCP the first few times I heard it, and I thought, 'Hey, at least it's not as bad as Snow '(Hey Oh)''. Hmmmm...


That Mika song

was on the radio in my gym the other day and it made me want to cry. Not in a "oh thats beautiful" sort of way, but in a "oh dear god no!" way.


Mika does KC Cover?

What we really need is for Mika to do a cover version of Ruby Ruby Ruby and then everyone will be unhappy in equal measures, which is nice, don’t you think?

To be honest, I’ve been significantly happier than a 15 year old boy on a porn set lately, because the more I look the less I see of Babyshitshambles. Have any of his fans admitted yet that The Blinding sank without a trace and represents the commencement of a not so long slide from unwashed hipness to shelf stacking humiliation for His Majesty the Vocally Inept?





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