Sunday, August 30, 2020

Alternative Top 5 Chart, August 30, 2020

 

Identical, the new Phoenix synth-pop song from the soundtrack of the upcoming Bill Murray movie, On The Rocks, debuted at No 3 last week and is now our new No. 1.  Congratulations Phoenix, but don't get used to it - songs typically don't remain at No. 1 on this list for long

Norway's Marie Ulven, who performs as Girl in Red, takes the No. 2 spot with the synth-pop song Rue, apparently about the character Rue in HBO's Euphoria (she's wearing the same hoodie as Rue in the song's video).

Baby It's You, the synth-pop ballad by England's London Grammar (not the Burt Bacharach song covered by The Beatles in 1963 and by Smith in 1969) slipped from No. 2 last week to No. 3 this week.

It's typical and we should have seen it coming.  Although Sufjan Steven's synth-pop tune Video Game is a perfectly fine song, it's probably the least interesting of his recent outstanding releases (America, My Rajneesh, etc.), yet it's the one that debuted two weeks ago at No. 1 and remains in the Top 5 this week at No. 4. As I said, typical.

Finally, the No. 5 spot is taken by To S, last week's No. 4.  A one-off single by crooner Father John Misty backed with To R. (for Skyler and Robin of his old band, Fleet Foxes?), the song is a folk-rock ballad and not synth pop like the rest of this week's Top 5.

List compiled "from over 70 alt and new release sources" by alt.nwmsc.com   Enjoy!

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