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 – 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 – 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. 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+
