Charts

CJSW’s weekly music charts are created based on the number of spins new titles are receiving at the station. Previous week’s charts can be accessed from the menu on the right.

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The items on each chart are listed as follows: #. Artist – Title (Label)
* indicates Canadian artist.
** indicates local artist.

Charts for week ending September 22, 2008

Top 50

Chad VanGaalen** - Soft Airplane (Flemish Eye)
The Stolen Minks* - High Kicks (New Romance For Kids)
Giant Sand - Provisions (Yep Roc)
The Walkmen - You & Me (Gigantic)
Stereolab - Chemical Chors (4AD)
The Ostrich** - Mt. Fuji In Red (Pizza)
Azeda Booth** - In Flesh Tones (Absolutely Kosher)
Brittle Siren** - Lost: City (Slolo)
Laura Barrett* - Victory Garden (Paper Bag)
Talkdemonic - Eyes At Half Mast (Arrco)
Prima Donna - After Hours (Acetate)
The New Year - The New Year (Touch and Go)
Javelins - Heavy Meadows (Suburban Sprawl)
Damien Jurado - Caught In The Trees (Secretly Canadian)
The Broken West - Now Or Heaven (Merge)
Civet - Hell Hath No Fury (Hellcat)
The Pack A.D.* - Funeral Mixtape (Mint)
Archive - Lights (Warner Music France)
Oxford Collapse - Bits (Sub Pop)
Marching Band - Spark Large (U&L)
Alaska In Winter - Dance Party In The Balkans (Milan)
Winter Gloves* - About A Girl (Paper Bag)
The Rumble Strips - Girls and Weather (Gigantic)
A Night In The Box - Write A Letter (Afteroon)
Various* - Saved By Saskatoon (Saved By Radio)
Defektors* - Secret Trials (Nominal)
Various* - Emergency Room Vol. 1 (Nominal)
David Vandervelde - Waiting For The Sunrise (Secretly Canadian)
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line (Barsuk)
Faded Paper Figures - Dynamo (Shorthand)
Putrescence / I Die Screaming - Putrescence / I Die Screaming (Independent)
Gales of Avalon** - Gales of Avalon (Independent)
Gunther** - Nuclear Stallions (Lakesong)
Fembots* - Calling Out (Weewerk)
Library Voices* - Hunting Ghosts (& Other Collected Shorts) (Young Soul)
The Clips* - Matterhorn (Unfamiliar)
The Moondoggies - Don't Be A Stranger (Hardly Art)
The Dead Science* - Villainaire (Constellation)
Goldcure - Portugese Prince (Sorin)
The Music Tapes - For Clouds And Tornadoes (Merge)
DeereJohn** - ÉBy the Time You Hear This (Lo-Cal)
The Consumer Goods* - The Anti-Imperial Cabaret (Independent)
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound (Side One Dummy)
Crosstown Rivals* - Crosstown Rivals EP (Independent)
Mirah - The Old Days Feeling (Modern Radio)
Tricot Machine* - Tricot Machine (Grosse Boite)
Windmill - Paddle City Racing Lights (Friendly Fire)
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - Have Another Ball! (Fat Wreck)
Dr. Dog - Fate (Park The Van)
Fleischhaker-Munro** - German Witchcraft (Bug Incision)

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Electronic

CSS - Donkey (Sub Pop)
Alias - Resurgam (Anticon)
Tricky - Knowle West Boy (Domino)
You Say Party! We Say Die!* - Remik's Cube (Advance)
SubSwara - Coup d'Yah (Low Motion)
Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect (Hydra Head)
The Bug - London Zoo (Ninja Tune)
The Black Ghosts - The Black Ghosts (IAmSound)
Fujiya & Miyagi - Lightbulbs (Deaf, Dumb & Blind)
Dive Index - Colllisions: The Mid/Air Remixes (Neutral Music)

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Hip Hop, Funk & Soul

DJ Brace* - The Electric Nosehair Orchestra In Nostomania (Balanced)
Invincible - Shapeshifters (Emergence Media)
C-Rayz Walz & Kosha Dillz - Freestyle vs. Written (Modular Moods)
Moka Only* - Claptrap (Urbnet)
Buff1 - There's Only One (A Side)
Various - Calypsoul 70: Caribbean Soul & Calypso (Strut)
The High Decibels - HD (Rolling Jack)
Aram Danesh And The Super Human Crew - The Grind (Mammoth)
Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust (Fader)
The Herbaliser - Same As It Never Was (K7)

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World

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Repentance (Narnack)
Burning Spear - Jah Is Real (Burning Spear)
Issa Bagayogo - Mali Koura (Six Degrees)
Various - Putumayo Presents: Acoustic France (Putumayo)
Emmanuel Jal - Warchild (Sonic 360)
Various* - Quebec (Putumayo)
Michael Franti & Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers (Anti)
Namori* - Gui Blo (PRR)
Grupo Fantasma - Sonidos Gold (Aire Sol)
Big Blue Ball - Big Blue Ball (Real World Records)

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Jazz

Jane Bunnett* - Embracing Voices (EMI)
L'Orkestre Des Pas Perdus* - Projet 9 (Cross Current)
Cory Weeds Quartet* - Big Weeds (Cellar Live)
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble - Forked (Cuneiform)
Bob Mintzer Big Band - Swing Out (Manchester Craftsmen's Guild)
Lisa Hilton - Sunny Day Theory (Ruby Slippers)
Blink - The Epidemic Of Ideas (Thirsty Ear)
Mark Dejong* - The Unknown (Chronograph Records)
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet* - Tabligh (Cuneiform)
Damian Nisenson Trio + 3 - En Concert (Malesartes)

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Folk

Angela Desveaux & The Mighty Ship* - Angela Desveaux & The Mighty Ship (Sonic Unyon)
Chris James and Patrick Rynn - Stop and Think About It (Earwig)
Steve Dawson* - Telescope (Black Hen)
Chuck Brodsky - Two Sets (Waterbug)
Walter Jr. - The River Club (Gatortone)
Death Vessel - Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us (Sub Pop)
Jeff Hanson - Madam Owl (Kill Rock Stars)
Neil Halstead - Oh! Mighty Engine (Brushfire)
Liz Mandeville - Red Top (Earwig)
Randy Newman - Harps and Angels (Nonesuch)

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Metal

Dragonforce - Ultra Beatdown (Roadrunner)
Cryptopsy* - The Unspoken King (Century Media)
Me Classic Struggle - Bring Back The Glory (Metal Blade)
Toxic Holocaust - An Overdose Of Death (Relapse)
Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man: Something Wicked, Part 2 (Steamhammer)
Overcast - Reborn To Kill Again (Metal Blade)
Under Heaven - What Lies Between (Maestro I)
Chrome Division - Booze, Broads and Beelzebub (Nuclear Blast)
One Way Mirror - One Way Mirror (Metal Blade)
With Faith or Flames - A Conquest Triumphant (Stand and Deliver)

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Experimental

? - Pure Bliss No Earth EP (Eschaton Industries)
Bulbs/Wobbly - Divorce Series 7" (Ache)
Near the Parenthesis - L'eixample (n5MD)
Nico Muhly - Mother Tongue (Brassland)
Twine - Violets (Ghostly International)
Klaus Schulze / Lisa Gerard - Farscape (Synthetic Symphony)
The Banjo Consorsium - A Turning One (912)
Galerie [Stratique] - Faux World (Statik)
Elite Barbarian - It's Only When You Get To The End That It All Makes Sense (Front & Follow)
Atlas Sound - Dub/Narcotic/Disco/Plate (K)

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