We're about ready for a new semester to start! (We call it the "Spring" one, just for laughs at this point.) All-American Rejects claim the top spot with their take on the old Harvey Danger tune of the same name. Gigi Perez plus the Justice/Tame Impala team-up go Top Ten, and we've got new entries from New Zealand's Balu Brigada and Ekoh. Fun flashbacks include tracks from the Jesus & Mary Chain as well as The Clash. See you back on campus this Monday :-)
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2 1 All-American Rejects/Flagpole Sitta (Flagpole Sitta; Doghouse Records)
4 2 Beabadoobee/Beaches (This Is How Tomorrow Moves; Dirty Hit)
6 3 The Offspring/OK, But This Is the Last Time (Supercharged; Columbia)
5 4 Glass Animals/A Tear in Space (I Love You So Much; Polydor)
7 5 Head and The Heart/Arrow (Arrow; Sub-Pop Records)
8 6 The Cure/A Fragile Thing (Songs of a Lost World; Capitol)
1 7 Green Day/Bobby Sox (Saviors; Reprise)
11 8 Justice & Tame Impala/Neverender (Hyperdrama; Atlantic Records)
3 9 Almost Monday/Can’t Slow Down (Hollywood Records)
12 10 Gigi Perez/Sailor Song (Sailor Song; Interscope)
14 11 Foster the People/See You in the Afterlife (Paradise State of Mind; Atlantic)
10 12 Mod Sun/Hotel Lights (Hotel Lights; Big Noise Music Group)
13 13 David Kushner/Darkerside (The Dichotomy)
15 14 Judah and the Lion/Floating in the Night (The Process; Cletus and the Van)
18 15 Twenty-One Pilots/The Line (Atlantic)
17 16 Wilderado/Higher Than Most (Talker; Bright Antenna Records)
19 17 The Kooks & Lovely the Band/Jeanie (Jeanie; Virgin Records)
20 18 Bishop Briggs/My Serotonin (Tell My Therapist I’m Fine; Island Records)
9 19 Dexter and the Moonrocks/Sad in Carolina (Severance Records)
-- 20 Balu Brigada/So Cold (Atlantic)
22 21 Coldplay/All My Love (Moon Music; Warner Music Group)
23 22 Smashing Pumpkins/Who Goes There
24 23 Snow Patrol/Your Heart Home (The Forest Is the Path; Jeepster Records)
21 24 Weathers/Wasn’t Gonna Go Out (Wasn’t Gonna Go Out; RCA)
16 25 311/Full Bloom (Full Bloom; Volcano Entertainment)
-- 26 Ekoh/Good Things (Just Us League)
27 27 Twenty-One Pilots/Routines in the Night (Clancy; Fueled by Ramen)
25 28 The Struts/Can’t Stop Talking (Can’t Stop Talking; Big Machine Records)
26 29 Palaye Royale/Showbiz (Death or Glory; Sumerian)
29 30 Pearl Jam/Waiting for Stevie (Dark Matter; Republic Records)
#1 ON THE WERG CHARTS
Last Year (2024): Shinedown/A Symptom of Being Human (Planet Zero; Atlantic)
5 Years Ago (2020): Of Monsters and Men/Wars (Fever Dream; Republic)
10 Years Ago (2015): Walk the Moon/Shut Up and Dance (Talking Is Hard; RCA)
15 Years Ago (2010): 30 Seconds to Mars/Kings and Queens (This Is War; Virgin)
20 Years Ago (2005): U2/Vertigo (How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb; Epic)
25 Years Ago (2000): Red Hot Chili Peppers/Otherside (Californication; Warner Brothers)
30 Years Ago (1995): Weezer/Buddy Holly (The Blue Album; DGC)
35 Years Ago (1990): Jesus & Mary Chain/Blues from a Gun (Automatic; Blanco y Negro)
40 Years Ago (1985): Julian Lennon/Too Late for Goodbyes (Valotte; Atlantic)
45 Years Ago (1980): The Clash/London Calling (London Calling; CBS Records)
50 Years Ago (1975): Jethro Tull/Bungle in the Jungle Cradle (War Child; Chrysalis)
UPCOMING ALBUM RELEASES:
Jan 10: Franz Ferdinand/The Human Fear (Domino)
Feb 21: The Wombats/Oh! The Ocean (AWAL)
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