1. I Know You – Bright Eyes – A devastating put down worthy of Dylan at his most cynical.
2. Who Killed Bambi – Sex Pistols – Kill your idols.
3. You Make Me Wanna – Usher – Crossover appeal
4. Brat Pak – The Rocket Summer – Bryce rails against a future never to be reached.
5. Telephone – The Morning Pages – I am pretty sure the wooohs and aaahs are improvised.
6. Orgasm Addict – The Buzzcocks – I wish I was sixteen again, that would be so much fun.
7. Colorado – For Science – One of my favorite songs of all time. If you don’t know it, you must know it. Buy, stream, or file swap but get it.
8. Nothing But The Whole Wide World – Jakob Dylan – The entire album is excellent
9. It’s Alright (On The Suez Canal) – Leisure – Gotta love that string intro.
10. I Learned The Hard Way – Sharon Jones and the Dapkings – An update of sweet soul music.
11. Umm Hmm – Erykah Badu – Sweet soul to start before settling into an afro-jazz mood.
13. Left And Right In The Dark – Justin Casablancas – His band mates can stroke this.
14. A More Perfect Union – Titus Andronicus – “We will live forever or die by suicide”
15. Window Seat – Erykah Badu – Before we get overwhelmed by the video, it’s worth noting this is Badu’s best song in a decade.
16. Unbreakable – Lana Mir – Tracey Ullman could cover it.
17. Titus Andronicus Forever – Titus Andronicus – The Million Dollar Quartet could cover it.
18. The Gaudy Side Of Town – Gayngs – Atmospheric.
19. Meet Me In The Sky – Bone, Thungs-n-Harmony – Whose the chick?
20. The Charming Life – Joan Armatrading – “It sounds excessive but I think it’s fine, when you’re gone all I do is think of you”. ahh, sweet.
21. I Am Not A Robot – Marina And The Diamonds – I think she’s singing about me. I mean, I’m vulnerable and lovable, right? … right?
22. Three Million Hours – The Kissaway Trail – See Sciortino, toldja we wrote about em.
24. Suicide Machine – Elliott Smith – A pro life triumph at odds with his finishing end.
25. Who’s Gonna Love You – Wesley Wolfe – Because it wouldn’t be Rock NYC without a shout out to Chapel Hills finest.