1 – If I Could Talk To Love – Carl Wilson – Some voice and though the material was iffy and some of these arrangements weren’t there, I am glad to have an album of Carl solo. This song is lovely – B+
2 – John Wayne Gacy Jr – Sufjan Stevens – When Sufjan mentions the 26 murders, his voice starts to sound like cries of pain – A
3 – DNA – Earl Sweatshirt – Hard drugs as an escape to the end – A
4 – Smuckers – Tyler, The Creator – Kweezy and Weezy join Tyler, who till sounds like he always did only richer – B+
5 – Truckin’ – The Grateful Dead – Wow, bad boys! – B
6 – It’s Hard – The Who – It ain’t easy – C
7 – It Ain’t Easy – The Rolling Stone – Really the blues, a masterpiece of thwarted desire – A
8 – Short Movie – Laura Marling – Inspired use of the f word – A
9 – I Just Can’t Wait To Be King – Brian Wilson – The Beach Boys meets Bo Diddley via Elton John – B+
10 – Ain’t No Money – Rosanne Cash – Witten by her husband at the time, this is is the lead off track from her best album: it looks minor, a coupla covers, a coupla newbies, and a husband and wife team who proved it all the album before. But, as shown here, this is the ease of the classicist. of the rule maker, in time, seconds before MCA country, where the song was the message – A
