When the Charts Fail On You…

1 – Michael Jackson – The Essential (Some people must be buying this every day? Is it some traditional gift for new-borns all of a sudden?)

New entries:
68 – Wild Beasts – Two Dancers (This is a disgrace. Everyone bums a critically acclaimed album but nobody actually goes out and buys it. Instead it’s beaten by…)
13 – Frankmusik – Complete Me (Now the record company might consider this a failure but ‘Complete Me’ is a pathetic turd of a debut album, and did in no way deserve to come 55 places above Wild Beasts)
20 – The Twang – Jewellery Quarter (The worst of all. The most tame, uninspiring music out there today makes the top 20. This, combined with the whole of Europe going far-right, is the biggest problem we face as human beings)
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This is when the debate of illegal music downloading should begin to come in again. The vast majority of file sharers actually have pretty good taste. Think the hypemachine users, the bloggers even, an awful lot of them file-share. There should be a fine line drawn between sampling a record, seeing if it fits your tastes, and refusing to go out and buy it.

Sure, this might sound hypocritical from a music blogger who 1) puts up mp3’s on his posts for sampling purposes and 2) got sent ‘Two Dancers’ for free for review purposes BUT Wild Beasts might now have problems raising the money to make a third record, an album with so much prospect. Wild Beasts are one of the few British bands to be showing any potential of changing, really enlightening music. But to be outdone in sales by The Twang, goes to show that the UK still has a big taste problem.

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