Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To 12-8-13

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1. Farewell – Bob Dylan – From the “Witmark” demos, the Coen’s get most things wrong in “Inside Llewyn Davis” but using this as a goodbye to the folk era? They get that right – A+

2. Greatest Hit – Chanel West Coast – She hits the rhyme here with skill on a sex song – B+

3. Budapest – George Ezra – That’s “I’d leave it all” he is saying – A-

4. Wide Eyed Lovely Live From KCRW – Nick Cave – Lovely piano version – B+

5. Someday Someway (aka Someday Some Other Way) – Marshall Crenshaw – I can’t hear this song often enough – A

6. Good Morning Baltimore – Marisa Jaret Winokur – The opening of “Hairspray” remains as thrilling a look as urban heaven as you can imagine – A

7. Kids – MGMT – Not for nothing, but is this all they have in em? – A-

8. The Phoenix – Fall Out Boy – Shoulda been a contender – B+

9. No Strings – Chloe Howl – In which she hopes it’s twins – A

10. Some Other Time – Barbra Streisand – From the Back To Brooklyn album, she gets the hook and spins you around on it. Heart Stopping – A

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