1 – All Your Fault – Big Sean, Kanye West – Nice soul sample, Kanye and Big Sean trade verses, and of course they can both rap, and the track is a soulful big nothing. West has a good line, “if you leave Mickey you’re gonna end up with Goofy” and the other guy? “My crib done got bigger, my women got badder”. Plus, Sean’s beats are a little stale, plus plus if he is the closest thing to Michael since Janet, I am Malcolm X- C-
2 – One More Hour – Sleater Kinney – “I don’t wanna hear another word about that other girl’ is good, “oh you’ve got the darkest eyes” is better – A
3 – Lady – D’Angelo – Neo-soul’s definition – A
4 – Tap24+ Hiha24 – Yorke And Greenwood – Finally, I am gonna drink the koolaid… SKITTISH BEATS SKITTISH BEATS IT IS ALL SKITTISH BEATS – B
5 – Dead Editors – Del Naja And Dickenson – Another track off the documentary “UK Gold” and this one ain’t skittish at all beats wise, the Massive Attacker puts it all deep and reverberating dub beats – B+
6 – Wishing well – Screaming Females – This is such a great song, not that the others aren’t, it is that this is like kanye when he released “Robocop” or something, a left field pop move – A
7 – Ice Princess – Azealia Banks – Apt for this cold winter but the sort of song other rappers don’t bother to pull. It is simple: compare Broke With Expensive Tastes to Dark Sky Paradise and get back to me, Banks is wasting her breath on Iggy, she is better than most rappers – A
8 – Rock & Roll (Live) – Lou Reed – In his eagerly, eagerly awaited Guide To The 70s, Steve Crawford recommends this ten minute take. he is quite right, of course – A+
9 – Heaven/Where True Love Goes (Live) – Yusuf/Cat Stevens – The highlight of the Tower Theatre gig, the surprise (though not shock) is that both songs are well past his cat stevens popstar career, and both songs are saved from the scrapheap of his post conversion life – A
10 – Tuesday – ILOVEMAKONNEN – Made him a star and he didn’t need Drake to push it – B+
