Martes 13 Feb 2007, 15:29

Hurrah! I sat through the whole of the NME Chart show once again. The Killers song that I quite liked seems to have vanished off the online chart. Read My Mind is a pretty good single, not as pompous as When You Were Young or as saxaphonic as Bones. The Killers have carved themselves a little niche and if they keep writing songs in that style, they'll generally enjoy some success.

10 The Long Blondes - Giddy Stratospheres
Dull, dull, dull, but hey, it sounds a bit like My Bloody Valentine. Keep pushing kids! One day you'll offend someone.

9 Maccabees - About Your Dress
Great video, made on a budget of 50p with lots of finger pippets. It also feature finger-puppet sex, which was a pleasent novelty. Unlike the song which was classic indie bilge. The lyrics made some kind of sense though, so that's got to be a bonus.

8 Willy Mason - Save Myself
It's the Willy Mason revival! This one wasn't on the chart show, so I haven't heard it.

7 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Desecration Smile
In a chart dominated by 'Hotly Tipped New Bands!!!' it's a real pleasure to see the 'chilies hawking a re-written hoary old ballad. If only they wrote 4 really good songs per album than about 30 wishy-washy, uninspired ones.

6 The Horrors - Gloves
It's the Goth revival! Here's a bunch of people pulling in different directions. The guitarist is playing any old w***, the singer wants to be in Joy Division or The Cure, the keyboardist has found a chord he can play over and over and the drummer is being adequate. A complete mess. If they could play their instruments, they'd be prog.

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The Twang - Wide Awake
Hurrah! It's the Baggy revival! Again, there's a tune here. It makes me feel all fuzzy and nostalgic for bands like The Farm and The Mock Turtles.

5 Maxïmo Park - Our Velocity
It's the Hot Chip revival! I really liked the 'trick' video for this, where the band seems to consist of hundreds of members, but it's all just the four of them superimposed over each other! Almost as good as having an Umlaut in your name so nobody tags your tracks properly. I liked the keyboard in this song. The guitar player and singer were s***. The keyboardist should ditch them and run off laughing into the stratosphere of half-decent music, while they languish in the hell of dribbling rubbish.

4 CSS - Off The Hook
CSS won lots of points for having a 'tune' that you could possibly 'hum'. Features four amateur musicians riding along on the wave of a girl who is quite good at singing.

3 Cold War Kids - Hang Me Out To Dry
My word, this song is fantatic! I love it so much! It's a simple track, but so atmospheric and meaningful!
That's what I'd be saying if the riff the song is built around wasn't completely dreary and the lyrics weren't boll***s. And the name of the band wasn't so awful.

2 Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
HA HA HA AHA HA AHHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!

1 The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
What the hell is this doing at number one? It was released about 6 months ago! They've had another single since then, what the f*** happened to that? Have the Gossip taken on the policy of re-releasing singles until they chart? That's for bands like Silver Sun and Space. That said, Standing In The Way of Control is acceptable. My opinion of it? The same thing I said for CSS.

Good grief, there's nothing in that chart that's worth hearing twice. I'm only glad that The Rumble Strips didn't feature with their unbelieveably bad song, Alarm Clock. I mention them because they are exceptionally awful and therefore destined for greatness and sleeping with supermodels.

Great. Keep listening!