Album Sweep: August 9, 2014 - Part Two...

The second half of this week's "album sweep" is up, sampling the records making their way on to the official Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine this week. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've includes highlighted links to buy any of the newbies, along with some of the artists' other major work.

Veteran Texan rock trio ZZ Top come in at #95 with yet another retrospective, The Baddest. What sets this one apart is that it includes the single mixes of their hits which previously weren't available on CD. Their 1992 Greatest Hits disc made it all the way to #9...

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English folk singer/songwriter Richard Thompson returns at #103 with Acoustic Classics. His last regular studio release, Electric in 2013, so far is his highest solo rank at #75...

Rap/metal fusion band (Hed) Planet Earth are back at #105 with their ninth studio album Evolution. Back in 2003 their third effort Blackout went to #33...

Joyce Manor, a punk rock band from the L.A. suburb of Torrance, enter at #106 with their third full-length album Never Hungover Again...

Metalcore act War Of Ages, from Erie Pennsylvania, score their highest rank so far as Supreme Chaos marches in at #107...

Fallujah, a death metal band, storm in at #115 with their second album The Flesh Prevails...

"Christian" rapper Bizzle ascends to #116 with his Well Wishes album. Earlier this year he created a stir with a homophobic "answer" record to Macklemore's "Same Love", claiming the usual "Christians aren't being tolerated for their intolerance" canard. Seriously, fuck this former pimp and his issues.

OneRepublic's second exclusive iTunes Sessions collection enters at #117. Their last studio album, Native, peaked at #12...

The Black Angels, a psychedelic rock band from Austin, Texas, shuffles in at #136 with their Clear Lake Forest EP. Back in 2010 they took their full-length Phosphene Dream to #52...

New Jersey Latin nu-metal group Ill Nino blow in at #143 with their seventh studio album Till Death, La Familia. Their sophomore release, Confession, has been their sole top-40 album at #37 in 2003...

Colony House, an indie-rock outfit from Tennessee, debut at #154 with their first charting set When I Was Younger...

The record entering at #155 is a self-titled set billed to Freeman, which is the surname of the man who went by the moniker Gene Ween as part of the modern rock group Ween, who put four albums in the Top 200 (their last, La Cucaracha went to #69 in 2007...

The collection Amazing Grace: 14 Treasured Hymns from the singer/actor "Tennessee" Ernie Ford enters at #159. It's his first time on the albums chart since 1970. Back in the 50s he was huge, sending four albums to the top-5 on the chart, with 1957's Hymns staying at #2 for three weeks.

Danish indie-rock duo the Raveonettes are back at #161 with their seventh album Pe'ahi. All seven have reach the albums chart in the US, with 2007's Lust Lust Lust reaching #108...

Texan country singer Roger Creager scores his first charting album with his seventh release Road Show at #172...

The final debut of the week belongs to reggae artist Chronixx, who comes in at #179 with his second EP Dread & Terrible.

That's it for the second half of the new bunch...out of these sixteen the four I would get first are the ZZ Top, Colony House, Raveonettes, and Ill Nino albums...