* NM Top 75 singles, 14 May 2005 *

[Earl Purple]

1 ( 6 ) Beautiful Son - Without Gravity < 1st #1 hit >
2 ( 3 ) Tied Up Too Tight - Hard-Fi
3 ( 2 ) Way Down [RE] - Elvis Presley (#2 - #1[1] in 1977)
4 ( 1 ) Portions For Foxes - Rilo Kiley (#1[5])
5 ( 4 ) Smoke Rings - Ian Broudie (#4)
6 ( 21 ) 22: The Death Of All Romance - Dears
7 ( 26 ) Beverly Hills - Weezer
8 ( 9 ) Make U Happy ;-) - Levellers
9 ( 8 ) Play The Hits - Hal (#8)
10 ( 13 ) Sally Be - Feable Weiner

11 ( 16 ) Eyes Of A Stranger - Edwina Hayes
12 ( 18 ) April Mourning / With Each Word - Silverland
13 ( 12 ) Jerk It Out [RE] - Caesars (#12 - #3 in 2003)
14 ( 5 ) Chicken Payback - Bees (#2[2])
15 ( 10 ) Between The Lines - Sambassadeur (#10)
16 ( 7 ) The Wonder Of You - Elvis Presley (#4)
17 ( 30 ) Graffiti - Maximo Park
18 ( 31 ) My Darling - Ambershades
19 ( 40 ) 100 mph - El Presidente
20 ( 23 ) Refugees - Tears

21 ( 17 ) Sukkafish - Grates (#17)
22 ( 43 ) So Long - Willy Mason
23 ( 19 ) Hold Me - Damien Dempsey (#19)
24 ( 20 ) Lucy / Jimmy White - Dustins Bar Mitzvah (#20)
25 ( 27 ) A Little Less Conversation [RE] - Elvis vs JXL (#10 in 2002)
26 ( 15 ) Shorter Shorter - Field Music (#13)
27 ( 47 ) Gotta Be That Way - House Of Love
28 ( -- ) In The Morning - Coral
29 ( 11 ) Redondo Beach / There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - Morrissey (#3)
30 ( 32 ) Sleep All Day - Charlie Dore

31 ( -- ) Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz
32 ( 14 ) Never Lose Your Sense Of Wonder - Yeti (#7)
33 ( 29 ) C'mere - Interpol (#29)
34 ( -- ) What Car - Cliff Richard
35 ( 22 ) Blow It Out - Features (#19)
36 ( 33 ) Munich - Editors (#33)
37 ( 25 ) I Don't Know What To Do With My Hands - Fans Of Kate (#22)
38 ( -- ) Other Side Of The World - KT Tunstall
39 ( 60 ) I Understand It - Idlewild
40 ( 54 ) Wonders Never Cease - Morcheeba

41 ( 63 ) Majority Of One - Johnny Panic
42 ( 24 ) Fill Me With Your Light - Clem Snide (#18)
43 ( 41 ) Psycho - Thee Unstrung (#41)
44 ( -- ) Your Easy Part - Art Of Fighting < DEBUT >
45 ( 66 ) Love + Pain - Clor
46 ( 45 ) Half Light - Athlete (#45)
47 ( -- ) Hey Man / Evil / Two Brains - Misty's Big Adventure < DEBUT >
48 ( 48 ) Love Will Tear Us Apart - Honeyroot
49 ( 70 ) Smile Like You Mean It - Killers
50 ( -- ) Ladyfingers - Fever

51 ( 34 ) Road Leads Where It's Led - Secret Machines (#29)
52 ( 71 ) Can You Touch Me - Film
53 ( 44 ) Heavy On My Heart - Anastacia (#44)
54 ( 73 ) Two AM - Thee More Shallows < DEBUT >
55 ( -- ) Snowden - Doves
56 ( 36 ) Teenage Superstar - Kim-Lian (#30)
57 ( 74 ) Panic Attack - Paddingtons < DEBUT >
58 ( 53 ) Hey Scenesters! - Cribs (#53)
59 ( -- ) Emily Kane - Art Brut
60 ( 49 ) Must Get Out - Maroon 5 (#49)

61 ( 55 ) Isabelle / Feel The Same - Battle (#55)
62 ( 37 ) Somewhere Else - Razorlight (#28)
63 ( -- ) Lonely - Akon > D
64 ( 42 ) Housework - Helen Boulding (#35)
65 ( 52 ) One By One - Steve Edwards (#52)
66 ( 58 ) Shine It All Around - Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation (#58)
67 ( -- ) Love Is An Unfamiliar Name - Duke Spirit < DEBUT >
68 ( 56 ) Dizziness - Neon (#56)
69 ( 62 ) Retreat - Rakes (#62)
70 ( -- ) The Game Is Won - Lucie Silvas
71 ( 65 ) Shop Window - Kathryn Williams (#65)
72 ( -- ) The Negatives - Hood < DEBUT >
73 ( 68 ) Crunchy - Blues Explosion (#68)
74 ( 28 ) (You're The) Devil In Disguise - Elvis Presley (#6)
75 ( -- ) Into Your Head - Honeymoon Machine < DEBUT >
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-- ( 35 ) Feeling A Moment - Feeder (#9)
-- ( 38 ) Just Be Your Tear / Live Like You Were Dying - Tim McGraw (#11)
-- ( 39 ) (Is This The Way To) Amarillo

 - Tony Christie (#2[1])
-- ( 46 ) William - Others (#21)
-- ( 50 ) Why Do You Love Me - Garbage (#26)
-- ( 51 ) Crying In The Chapel / I Believe In The Man In The Sky - Elvis Presley #18)
-- ( 57 ) All About You - McFly (#4)
-- ( 59 ) Next Best Superstar - Melanie C (#37)
-- ( 61 ) Talking Heads - People In Planes (#49)
-- ( 64 ) Negotiate With Love - Rachel Stevens (#42)
-- ( 67 ) Dimension - Wolfmother (#25)
-- ( 69 ) Lump In My Throat - Departure (#45)
-- ( 72 ) Time To Grow - Lemar (#48)
-- ( 75 ) Coffee Coloured Strings - Kirsty McGee (#50)
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-- ( -- ) Again - Faith Evans 
-- ( -- ) Do It Like You Like - Stands 
-- ( -- ) Tuned To A Different Station - Dogs 
-- ( -- ) Spiders & Saints - Exist 
-- ( -- ) Good Enough For You - Freefaller 
-- ( -- ) You're Speaking My Language - Juliette & The Licks 
-- ( -- ) Cast Anchor - Hanne Hukkleberg 

This week I am going to try to make sure I catch up and compile a chart on Wednesday, which will still leave me one week behind but I can post that chart for the combi-chart. If I can then compile yet another one next weekend I'll be pretty much "level". 

Due to the fact that I'm planning to switch my mode of transport to work from public transport to private, the latter of which allows me to listen to CDs on the journey, I will be compiling CDs of the new songs and so should hopefully get enough exposure to be able to compile charts quicker

As it happens chart compilation time has sped up as I've now developed a "formula" to give a "default" position to each song in the previous weeks chart - the position is actually a negative score, so the ones with the lowest score feature higher up the chart. These defaults are generated and then I can go through and change them before running the macro that compiles the chart. Having looked at that I can make any other amendments I wish to make. (The formula and macro are there to help me, not to dictate to me what the chart has to be). Actually, by the pure formula, Rilo Kiley would have fallen from #1 in each of the last 2 weeks, and would have fallen only to #2 this week.

Hopefully we can have some replies before Wednesday and I can talk a bit about the music in the chart.

[frag]

I should invest in/download the following:

1 ( 6 ) Beautiful Son - Without Gravity < 1st #1 hit > (general principle... NM, based on what you know of my tastes, do you think I'd like it?)
7 ( 26 ) Beverly Hills - Weezer
28 ( -- ) In The Morning - Coral
36 ( 33 ) Munich - Editors (#33)
58 ( 53 ) Hey Scenesters! - Cribs (#53)
59 ( -- ) Emily Kane - Art Brut

I already own:
17 ( 30 ) Graffiti - Maximo Park
33 ( 29 ) C'mere - Interpol (#29)
39 ( 60 ) I Understand It - Idlewild
49 ( 70 ) Smile Like You Mean It - Killers
51 ( 34 ) Road Leads Where It's Led - Secret Machines (#29)

Surely not a Joy Division cover?!
48 ( 48 ) Love Will Tear Us Apart - Honeyroot

Are you going to do an all-time chart at any point in the future?

[Earl Purple]

I hope you would like Without Gravity. It's a slow, acoustic guitar-based ballad. I think musically it's a bit like some of what Radiohead did on "The Bends" album.