With Just A Hint Of Mayhem

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The Mayhem Charts – January 2025 February 12, 2025

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Here is the Mayhem chart for January 2025. Regular readers know the chart is based on my Spotify listening habits. These are gathered over the last month by obscurify.com. After a slight blip last month my taste in music is now apparently 99% more obscure than the rest of the UK! The chart remains contemporary-ish (but if a classic artist releases something new they might feature in the chart). However, last month’s top three “Legacy” artists were David Bowie, Linda Ronstadt and Bill Withers. Obscurify also suggests the most obscure artists I have listened to for January and they are Liz Davinci, Jackie’s Boy and Herorangecoat. Last month Herorangecoat also made it to number eight in the artist chart. For the first time in months Delilah Bon has not made it into the chart since we restarted it more than a year ago. But another Mayhem chart regular, ALT BLK ERA sit at number two in the artist chart. Party Nails is the number one artist for January following the release of her wonderful album ‘Pillow Talk’ in that month. Top of the song chart for January is a firm favourite here at Mayhem Towers and someone we have championed for a long while. It is the supremely talented Kindelan with her latest offering “Drowning The Killer”. So without further ado here are those charts in full! Click on the Spotify link below to listen to the famous (or infamous) five!

Mayhem Artist Chart January 2025

1 Party Nails
2 ALT BLK ERA
3 Lambrini Girls
4 The Apocalypse Disco
5 Robo
6 Lola Young
7 abs
8 Herorangecoat
9 Brògeal
10 Used To Be Apes

Mayhem Song Chart January 2025

1 Drowning The Killer – Kindelan
2 Manhattan – Pennine Suite
3 Safe & Sound – Pip Lewis
4 A New Dream – Gregory Darling and Julian Lennon
5 Vice – Rizzle Kicks

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Wow That’s What I Call Mayhem – Volume 1 March 11, 2024

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With apologies to the creators of the iconic NOW series of compilations that began in 1983, I felt it was time to do something similar with Mayhem! This includes the first 20 singles we reviewed in 2024 in a delightfully eclectic playlist for your listening pleasure! More than 70 minutes of music, click here and lose yourself in the music!

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The Mayhem Charts – January 2024 February 1, 2024

Filed under: Mayhem Top 20 Chart — justwilliam1959 @ 11:04 pm
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Here is the Mayhem chart for January 2024. Regular readers know that the chart is based on my Spotify listening habits over the last month. The chart is contemporary-ish, rather than just an oldies chart However, the top three “Legacy” artists are Led Zeppelin, Manic Street Preachers, and Jesus Loves You. Surprisingly for the second month in a row 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 two who were in the top ten last month (Rebecca Ferguson and Delilah Bon). Only one of the top five songs is by an artist which features in the top ten artist chart. That honour goes to Lola Young at number 5 in the song chart and number 8 in the artist chart. The Bridge City Sinners are number 1 in the artist chart and Polevaulter are number 1 in the song chart. So without further ado here are those charts in full! Click on the header of the song chart for the playlist on Spotify.

MAYHEM ARTIST CHART JANUARY 2024

1 The Bridge City Sinners
2 Rebecca Ferguson
3 Ian M Bailey
4 Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes
5 Brittany Howard
6 Say She She
7 The Smile
8 Lola Young
9 Delilah Bon
10 NewDad

MAYHEM SONG CHART JANUARY 2024

1 Violently Ill – Polevaulter
2 Serendripity – Skram
3 Back In Time – Georgia Reed
4 Centrefold – Vaquelin
5 Wish You Were Dead – Lola Young

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“Wish You Were Dead” – Lola Young January 16, 2024

Filed under: Review — justwilliam1959 @ 10:03 pm
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Lola Young is new to me and I am so glad I found her music. I am also sorry that I am so late to the party! She is from South East London and is in her early 20s. On her Spotify bio, she says this of herself, “Music is everything to me, helps me try and make sense of myself and the world around me. I’m pretty hopeless with love, I hate flowers (unless they’re dead), I can’t sit still for more than 10 minutes, but I figure out my heart and mind through poetry, and melody”

Her current single was released a few days ago and it is close to perfect. It has a dark pop-rock vibe and would be a surefire radio hit. But sadly, the smart and appropriate use of some profanities will prevent that. But if you love great music you need to give it a spin. The musicianship on the track is first class and Lola’s voice is magnificent. It carries a message of soul-bearing emotion and deep, deep feeling, particularly of that bad kind of love. She has described the song, and perhaps its source, as “a song to help me process an abusive and at times toxic relationship I experienced, even though at times I felt trapped, it’s about loving a person regardless of the fact they are hurting you“. Check out some of her other stuff too.

I rarely watch TV adverts, but if I did I might have discovered Lola earlier with her sparse and beautiful cover of “Together In Electric Dreams” for the John Lewis Christmas advert in 2021. It spent 8 weeks on the chart and peaked at number 7. She was at the acclaimed Brit School which has produced a talented array of alumni including Adele and Amy Winehouse to name just a couple. I feel there are some similarities between the vocal styles of Lola and Amy. But Lola Young is an incredible vocalist in her own right. Get Lola Young into your life, you will not be disappointed. She has a UK? EU tour coming up and also a number of US dates. I am not sure I can make any of them, but she is definitely on my must see list now.

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