1. Closest Thing To You I’m Gonna Find – Butch Walker – Walker’s best song was also the best song by anyone Saturday night, a lost love song wrapped in the glow of geography with a killer guitar break and a very smart lyric – A
2. Starman –Â David Bowie – This didn’t make Bowie Bowie, but it sure didn’t hurt – A+
3. Bad Girl – Madonna – And this isn’t from Madonna’s last great album, she still had Ray Of Light and Music in the wings, but it came close – A
4. I Wanna Be Loved You – Marilyn Monroe –Â Badum badum bee doodily dum ! Boo ! – A+
5. The New Day – Tomas Doncker band – Yusef Komunyakaa and Tomas’s masterpiece about the black migration from the South to the North and what the black population took with them. Â Doncker compared it to Native American Robbie Robertson singing about the civil war… yes it is that kind of song – A+
6. Bad – David Guetta – Talk about fucking around with expectations, this is a glorious house track with some serious midgame vocals by Aussie vassey – B+
7. Lovers on The Sun – David Guetta – This is his Ennio Morricone soundtrack – B+
8. Thank You For The Music Live – ABBA – Possibly the best moment on the Live From Wembley album – B+
9. Dangerous – David Guetta – Piano and strings with a perfect Sam martin vocal , I’ve got a good feeling about this – B+
10. H.W.C. – Liz Phair – The greatest song Phair ever wrote, sexy, straight, funny and fun – A+
