25 Song review: The past is another country, even only 5 months ago by Iman Lababedi

1. If You’re On The Mend , I’m On The Move – The Kingsbury Manx – Pastoral, but not like Chapel Hill like the lake district

2. Now You Has Jazz – Louis Armstrong – And I am hearing Bing more all the time.

3.I saw The Light – Spoon – One naff live show and I’ve lost interest.

4. Black Ladder – Patti Scialfi – Costello killed this on Spectacle.

5. Can We Go Wrong – Hesta Prynn – She lead with her best.

6. Ballad Of Nrangelina – Americans In France – Before i realized the band was hot as well.

7. Dandelion – Charlotte Gainsbourg – Old fashioned boogie -already knew she was hot.

8. Closer – Corinne Rae Bailey –  Twas the winter of our discontent.

9. There Are Listed Buildings – Los Campesinos – Disappointment of the year -the album, not song.

10. I’m Ahead Of I Can Quit While I’m Behind – Jim Ford – Another drunk lost.

11. Shameless (feat Bryan Ferry) – Groove Armada – I was just listing in the background and thought wow, this is the best Roxy rip in ages!! The album was a bummer.

12. I Swear This Time I Mean It – Mayday Parade – great emo-rock plus Mary and helen interviewed em and i loved em live.

13. Straight In At 101 – Los Campesinos – “We need more post-coital and less post-rock” deserves a vastly superior song than this Los Rote-esinos.

15. Show Some Love When Your Man Gets Home – Princeton – Pretty but pretty boring after awhile.

16. In the Flesh – Blondie – darling, darling, darling…

17. Cousins – Vampire Weekend – Remember where you were the first time you heard it?

18. Theme From “Cheers” – Titus Andronicus – The second song I heard off the yet to be released at the time Monitor, I streamed in from a month straight.

19. Fistful Of Tears – Maxwell – God this sucks.

20. Today Was A Fairytale – Taylor Swift – I don’t care what anybody says, I love it.

21. Take Good Care Of My Baby – Bobby Vinton – And if you should discover you don’t really love her…

22. Spanish Harlem Incident – James Mercer – not just pointless and useless but also quite pleasant.

23. Johnny Cash is Dead (And His House Burnt Down) – Larry Gaitlin – Best cash tribute so far.

24. Love T.K.O. – Teddy Pendergrass – A knockout.

25. Fanatic – Heidi Montag – Remember when she said the album was gonna be the next Thriller?? Remeber when it was freezing cold and dark by 4pm and the Giants were still heading to the Superbowl? So long, long, long time away ago.

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