Album Sweep: August 24, 2013 - Part Two...

Hey gang, I'm down with part two of this week's "album sweep" sampling the records reaching the Top-200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy anything if I can.

Driving in at #77 is the soundtrack to an independent film starring A-lister Paul Rudd. Prince Avalanche is about two guys spending the summer painting road lines in Texas, which of course is a sure-fire mark of a successful pitch, eh? The soundtrack was done by the post-rock band Explosions in the Sky, who also scored the 2004 TV show Friday Night Lights. They have made the chart three times now, with their last studio album Take Care, Take Care, Take Care reaching #16...

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Louisiana "mathcore" band Iwrestledabearonce come in at #93 with their third full-length album, Late For Nothing. Their last effort, Ruining It For Everybody, topped out at #80 two years ago...

Singer Christina Grimmie, who built a fanbase on her covers channel on YouTube, will be opening for Selena Gomez on her tour, and her debut full-length album With Love is in at #101. Her debut EP Find Me did better, coming in at #35 in 2011...

Maryland's the Dangerous Summer is in at #147 with their third studio set Golden Record. It's the indie rock band's second to make the chart...

Canadian rapper Madchild, from Vancouver, enters at #150 with his Lawn Mower Man...

Death metal outfit Revocation are from Boston, and they're debuting at #159 with their self-titled fourth full-length...

Proving how artists are using alternative avenues to sell music, the latest compilation from country singer Clint Black, When I Said I Do, is an exclusive to the Cracker Barrel restaurant/rest stop store chain, and rolls in at #168. Clint was one of the biggest stars of the last millenium, placing seven albums in the top-40 on the albums chart, with 1992's The Hard Way going as high as #8...

The 2008 compilation The Very Best of the Animals collects 15 of the greatest hits of the seminal blues-rock band, and it finally shows on the big albums chart at #188. Their self-titled American debut album reached #7 way back in 1964...

The Christian pop set We Believe (Live) by ONE: A Worship Collective, featuring singers Ryan Williams, Clayton Parks, Kurtis Parks, and more, arrives at #189...

Another successful non-traditional music outlet has been the coffeehouse giant Starbucks, and their exclusive compilation of early 60s hits titled Twist And Shout dances in at #190. It has tracks from Bobby Fuller Four, Roy Orbison, and Link Wray, among others...

James LaBrie, the lead singer for the second-biggest progressive rock band in Canada (after Rush), Dream Theater, comes in at #198 with his third solo album Impermanent Resonance...

And rounding things out at #200 is Motown giants Diana Ross & The Supremes with their Best of Diana Ross & The Supremes 20th Century Masters: The Millenium Collection. The vocal group had taken three albums to the #1 spot on the albums chart - their 1966 set The Supremes A-Go-Go, their Greatest Hits from 1967, and their collaborative set with the Temptations TCB in 1968....

That'll do for the second dozen of this week's newbies (and some "oldies"). The three I would recommend first are the iwrestledabearonce, Explosions In the Sky, and the James LaBrie sets (besides the seminal Animals and Supremes collections)...