With Just A Hint Of Mayhem

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The Mayhem Charts – September 2024 October 1, 2024

Filed under: Mayhem Monthly Chart,Mayhem Top 20 Chart — justwilliam1959 @ 7:44 pm
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Here is the Mayhem chart for September 2024. Regular and constant readers know that the chart is based on my Spotify listening habits over the last month gathered by obscurify.com. Apparently, my tastes have risen slightly to 98% 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 Stevie Wonder, Kate Bush and David Bowie. Obscurify also suggests the most obscure artists I have listened to for September: Liz Davinci, Kindelan, and Birdlands. There is a top ten artists chart and a top 5 songs chart. There is the usual eclectic mix of artists, including two that were in the top ten last month; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (falling from 3 to 10) and Delilah Bon (a huge rise from 9 to number 1)! Delilah has been in the artist charts now for ten consecutive months. Two artists appear in both lists for September Delilah Bon and Cassyette! The number one song is “Ballad 2 (Skin Off My Back)” by, the delightful, HerOrangeCoat. 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 September 2024

1 Delilah Bon
2 Cassyette
3 Birdlands
4 The The
5 Nick Lowe
6 Sabrina Carpenter
7 The White Roses
8 Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip
9 The Courettes
10 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Mayhem Song Chart September 2024

1 Ballad 2 (Skin Off My Back) – HerOrangeCoat
2 Mad Woman – Lloren
3 Villain – Delilah Bon
4 This World Fucking Sucks – Cassyette
5 Aggravate Me – Read The Room

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On This Day Nick Got Stiff, George Got Swept Away, And The Who Couldn’t Take The Piss! August 14, 2024

Filed under: On This Day — justwilliam1959 @ 10:42 pm
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On 14th August in 1976 ‘So It Goes’ by Nick Lowe became the first record released on Stiff Records. The label was set up off the back of a £400 loan. Their marketing and advertising was often very witty describing itself as “The World’s Most Flexible Record Label”. Other slogans were “We came. We saw. We left”, and, my favourite, “If It Ain’t Stiff, It Ain’t Worth a Fuck”.

In 2006, also on 14th August Boy George was sweeping streets in New York as part of a five-day community service sentence. He was moved into a fenced-off area after a short while as the media tried to mob him. The singer had been found guilty of wasting police time earlier that year and was threatened with jail if he failed to complete the court-imposed sentence.

In 1971, on August 14th, the Who released their fifth studio album ‘Who’s Next’. The cover shows a photo of the band apparently having just taken a leak on a large concrete pillar, but according to photographer Ethan Russell, most of the band members were unable to pee, so rainwater was tipped from an empty film canister to achieve the desired effect.

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“I begged you not to go but you said goodbye, now your telling me all your lies” December 15, 2010

Filed under: Christmas,Trivia — justwilliam1959 @ 12:02 am
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It’s now December 15th and just 10 days until the big fat bloke in red breaks into your house and leaves you presents! It’s also day 15 of my UK Christmas Number Ones Advent Calendar and I have a true delight behind the door for you today. It was number one at Christmas 1970 and stayed at the top for 6 weeks. people of the blog universe I give you Dave Edmunds with his version of “I Hear You Knocking” I was such a teenybopper in those days (well actually I was not quite 12 years old) I bought that single with my milkround tips.

It looks like Dave celebrates Christmas the same way that I do!

The song was written by Dave Bartholomew and Pearl King and first published as far back as 1955. The first hit version was by Smiley Lewis and he reached number two in the US R & B charts. In fact Welshman Edmunds name checks Smiley Lewis and also Chuck Berry in his version of the song. Many people have covered this timeless classic including; Bryan Adams, Canned Heat, Bruce Springsteen, Fats Domino and Connie Francis. Edmunds version also hit the top 5 in the US, Canada and Australia.

Tonight Matthew, Nick and myself will be the Everly Brothers!

During the 60s Dave Edmunds was a member of the wonderfully named Human Beans. The nucleus of that group went on to form Love Sculpture who had a massive hit in 1968 with “Sabre Dance” based on a classical composition by Aram Khachaturian. The single was championed by none other than the greatest DJ that ever lived, Mr John Peel.