City With No Children – Arcade Fire – The handcaps make the song and the daymare has a dreamy quality -like the world is closing in on it and Wim is singing with his head just above water and being tugged down with doubt.
Not Like The Movies – Katy Perry – Song # 3 is a full blown ballad, and it isn’t bad if you like pop ballads who think they are more than they are. Written so she can claim Andrew Lloyd Webber as an influence.
Lovegame – Lady Gaga feat Marilyn Manson – It’s fun when Manson comes into the picture three minutes in and adds his Gothy hoarseness but otherwise fun but not FUN.
One Shot – JLS – This huge UK hit is a dreary pop disaster. I can’t hit next fast enough.
Jizzle (feat Lil Jon) – Young Jeezy – CAN’T YOU READ??? It says “this week’s model, not 2005 year’s model.
St8 killa No filla – Freddie Gibbs – WTF??? “F.R.E.D.D.I.E ” it sure aint -flow is fine but nothing special.
Let’s Get Out Of Here – Les Savvy Fav – A healthy dose of rock ordinaire, sorta the Dandy Warhols with a nicely tinny guitar sound.
Yo Canto – Los Lobos – A plesant enough cantata going nowhere.
The Boys Of Fall – Kenny Chesney – If Kenny aint gay he sure should be and this is such a homoerotic look at football, you just know he wants to climb into the shower with the team of MASCULINE MEN.
Telephone (Passion Pit remix) – Lady Gaga Alrighty then. This is the one. It starts as a Mickey Mouse (whoops, I meant Mighty Mouse, those Disney lawyers are everywhere) speed mix and then cruises a coupla of synth lines which it spins and spins and spins. SONG OF THE WEEK.
Letting Go (feat Nicki Minaj) – Sean Kingston – Minaj’s reinvention of herself is the greatest since Bowies in the 70s but it works because she can rap pop, gangsta, r&b. She is the real thing. She would save this Kingston track only it doesn’t need saving.
Norfolk Nights – Shit robot – Not nights in a club, nights on the road: it’s the rumbling hinge of wheels on asphalt.