With Just A Hint Of Mayhem

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The Mayhem Charts – December 2023 January 6, 2024

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Here is the Mayhem chart for December 2023. Regular readers will know the chart is based on my Spotify listening habits over the last month. The chart remains contemporary-ish, rather than just an oldies chart However, the top three “Legacy” artists are Elvis Costello, Kate Bush, and Bobby Darin, and surprisingly David Bowie is not in the top 3. There is a top ten artists chart and a top 5 songs chart. There is the usual eclectic mix of artists, including three who were in the top ten last month (ALT BLK ERA, Delilah Bon, and tiLLie). In fact, this is now the fifth month in a row that ALT BLK ERA has featured in the artist’s top ten. Only two of the top five songs are by artists which feature in the top ten artist chart. Those two are Rebecca Ferguson and Jazmin Bean. girli and UGLY CLUB remain in the song top five from last month with UGLY CLUB moving up from 5 to 2 and girli moving from 3 to the summit! In case you are interested the top three Christmas tunes for December were “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” by Darlene Love, “Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End)” by the Darkness, and “Proper Christmas” by the Krackpots. So without further ado here are those charts! Click on the header of the song chart for the playlist on Spotify.

MAYHEM ARTIST CHART DECEMBER 2023

1 Jazmin Bean
2 Rebecca Ferguson
3 Poppy
4 100 gecs
5 Yussef Dayes
6 tiLLie
7 HANDSHAKE IN SPACE
8 Scott Bradlee’s Post-Modern Jukebox
9 Delilah Bon
10 ALT BLK ERA

MAYHEM SONG CHART DECEMBER 2023

1 Nothing Hurts Like A Girl – girli
2 What’s Wrong – UGLY CLUB
3 Digging For Gold – Rebecca Ferguson
4 Terrified – Jazmin Bean
5 SAOKO – Rosalía

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Mayhem’s 12 Days Of Christmas – Day 7 – 100 gecs December 20, 2023

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Day 7 of Mayhem’s 12 Days of Christmas series for 2023 brings you 100 gecs, a band I discovered thanks to the Spotify playlist Misfits 2.0. Dylan Brady and Laura Les formed 100 gecs in St. Louis, USA in 2015 and they have now released two albums (‘1000 gecs’ and ‘10,000 gecs’ in 2019 and 2023 there was also a remix album, ‘1000 gecs and the Tree of Clues’ in 2020) Based on the album titles so far will there next one be called ‘100,000 gecs’? Their music is most prominently dance-based, and they have worked with some giants in that field including Skrillex and Basement Jaxx. Their reimagination of Linkin Park’s “One Step Closer” is beyond special. They also issued a Christmas(ish) tune, back in 2020, called “sympathy 4 the grinch” which has so much pop punk and ska in it. Some of their earlier remixes might have originated in a parallel universe in which 100 gecs are musical gods.

I am not sure I can really find the words to describe the wacky, wonderful weirdness of their self-titled EP from 2017. “Fuck Teeth” is delightfully different. While “25 bands and a geccco” might have been made via a sentient AI being trapped inside an arcade game, bloody brilliant! The 2022 EP ‘Snake Eyes’ features the previously mentioned collaboration with Skrillex and two other very classy tunes. The hard disco blues of “Hey Big Man” and the ethereal pop dance, with added heavy guitar riffage, of “Runaway”. I loved this year’s album ‘10,000 gecs’ so much that I placed it at number 20 in the Mayhem Albums Of The Year! Check 100 gecs out, you need them in your world!

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Mayhem Albums Of The Year 2023 December 10, 2023

Filed under: Mayhem Top 20 Chart — justwilliam1959 @ 9:29 pm
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I know a lot of people don’t like the end-of-the-year list craze, but I do, so the Mayhem Albums Of The Year feature is back for 2023! I tried to keep it to a top ten, but I failed miserably, so it is a top twenty. Is your favourite included, or conversely, is your least favourite one of my favourites? There are a lot of big artists on the list, because whilst I focus on newer and smaller artists, I still listen to the big ones, what can I say, I just bloody love good music! I am not going to write a piece on every album and artist included, but I would love to hear your choices for 2023. So here it comes, the Mayhem top 20 albums of 2023!

  1. Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd – Lana Del Rey
  2. Black Rainbows – Corinne Bailey Rae
  3. Heavy Heavy – Young Fathers
  4. Chaos For The Fly – Grian Chatten
  5. Drop Cherries – Billie Marten
  6. The Ballad of Darren – Blur
  7. Seven Psalms – Paul Simon
  8. UK GRIM – Sleaford Mods
  9. Smile – Skindred
  10. Fata Morgan – Liz Davinci
  11. The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons – The Hives
  12. Vertiginous Drops – Carol Hodge
  13. Venom – WARGASM
  14. Chronicles of a Diamond – Black Pumas
  15. Black Classical Music – Yussef Dayes
  16.  1989 (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
  17. Things Lost – Suncharms
  18. Stories From a Rock n Roll Heart – Lucinda Williams
  19. CACTI – Billy Nomates
  20. 10,000 gecs – 100 gecs

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