1. Heart Is A Drum – Beck – Elegant folk ambient mood music includes the sweetest melody he has written in many years and a mix of string instruments that has some of the airiness of Laurel Canyon in its DNA and the rhythm of life flowing through it – A
2. The One Thing – Shakira – Echoes all the way back to “Underneath Your Clothes” with its acoustic tunefulness – A
3. Miserable – Tokyo Police Club – Third melodic wonder in a row, TPC have made a simple but it says it pop rocker – B+
4. We Know How To Rock – Jerrod Niemann – Third song off the new one is not the charm – C
5. Age Of Reason – Black Sabbath – Say what you will, they sound pretty much the same as ever – B
6. The Man Machine – – Kraftwerk – I thought they “cheeseburger” at first – B-
7. These Days – Live – Jackson Browne – Amazingly enough, he was 16 when he wrote it- A
8. The Ambassadors – The Hold Steady – Sounds like it could be in exile from the Beck album – B+
9. Advance The Real – Perfect Pussy – Steamrolled and very very gast – B
10. Eye Of The Tiger – Survivor – Man, does this song have a lot to answer for. That two guitar riff where one holds the bottom and the other explodes on top? They invented it here – C+
