10 Songs, Wednesday, March 5th, 2014

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1. Sanctified – Rick Ross – A truly superb sample walks the same line to less effect than Kanye, who performs an excellent rap, did on “Blood On The Leaves”. Big Sean is pretty excellent as well and while Ross is a big fat bore, here he bores to excellent effect. Easily the best song on the newbie – A-

2. Martha – BBC Live Version – Rufus Wainwright – One of the best songs of the decade is an ode to his sister and a mori memento for his Mom, who wasn’t  dead at the time, at the same time. This stark version is very sad – A+

3. Magic – Coldplay – The more I listen to it, the worse it sounds – B-

4. Past Lives – Real Estate – Tepid – C+

5. Raging Fires – Phillip Phillips – Middle Of the Road American Idol winner with a little spunkiness to him – B

6. Brand New – Pharrell Williams – featuring Justin Timberlake, dance pop gets nobody than this, it sounds like a modified cha cha on steroids – A

7. Primer Coat – Drive-By Truckers – The guitars sound just like the Gin Blossoms – B+

8. Louder – Lea Michele – Why would you wanna be the child of Katy Perry when you could belong to the Barbra Streisand ancestry? – B-

9. Run Boy Run – Woodkid – Atmospheric sound freak from former big time video director – B+

10. Children – Linda Perhacs – haunting soul folk – B