Islands Aren't Budging From #1

It's Wednesday on one of the few weeks during the year that's interrupted by those pesky holiday Mondays. As usual, the weather was lousy. I think we should move this long weekend to early in June so we can have a fighting chance for some decent weather. I didn't see any fireworks because of the combination of clouds and freezing cold temperatures. Can I convince anyone out there, like an MP, to introduce a private member's bill to shift Victoria Day to the first Monday in June?

Enough politics, let's have a peek at the top 50 chart for the week ending May 19. For the umpteenth week in a row, Islands' Return To The Sea remains at #1. Its directly followed again by Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Show Your Bones. Moving up four spots to #3 is Tokyo Police Club's A Lesson In Crime. Former #3 album, The Flaming Lips' At War With The Mystics, drops to #4, which in turn pushes The Lovely Feathers' Hind Hind Legs to #5. Feist's Open Season explodes up the chart 34 places to land at #6, while the Black Angels' upwardly mobile Passover jumps six places to #7. Sunset Rubdown's Shut Up I Am Dreaming regains a foothold in the top 10 at #8. Run Chico Run's Slow Action is at #9, while Final Fantasy's He Poos Clouds is already on the way down. It drops five places to #10 in its third week on the chart.
There's some major competition for the Chart Sizzler Award, as Grandaddy's Just Like The Fambly Cat at #18 just ekes out a win over old-enough-to-be-a grand-dad Neil Young, whose Living With War lands at #19. Wolfmother's self-titled album debuts at #32, while Rae Spoon's White Hearse Comes Rolling enters at #36. Other debuts include Anti-Flag's For Blood And Empire at #40, Beirut's Gulag Orkestar at #43 and Juana Molina's Son at #50.

After a couple of weeks of tumultuous action on the specialty charts, things have settled down a bit. The Coup's Pick A Bigger Weapon remains atop the Hip-Hop chart and William Parker's Long Hidden: The Olmec Series holds on to the #1 spot on the Jazz/Blues chart. Tiga's Sexor retains command of the Electronic chart and Cannibal Corpse's Kill continues to be invincible on the Metal/Punk top 10. The only new #1 is Black Ox Orkestar's Nisht Azoy, which jumps five places to take over the top of the World/Jazz chart.