1. The Turn – MIA – What I wanna know is how can anybody listen to weird chanteralongasynthbop of Kala and not get that MIA is not a mainstream performance. She just isn’t. If you don’t like it, fine, she isn’t for everybody but she is an obtuse dance hyphen performer and this song is great.
2. Vanities – Charlotte Gainsbourg – Atmospheric whisperer off the all but forgotten and still damn good Beck produced IRM.
3. Soldier Of The Heart – Judee Sill – Whatever happened to the Sill revival Nessing and I were plotting. Come to think of it, whatever happened to Nessing?
4.Crap Rap 2/Like To Blow – The Fall – Neither ahead not behind its time: the Fall are on a whole other time frame… This is really really great from the flat out brilliant Live At The Witch Trails.
5. Let the Mystery Be – Iris DeMent – Good advise from Joe steinhardt and my fave.
6. My Brain – Rivers Cuomo – This is the usual chugalugaWeez, and it is much closer to the Weezer of 2010 than the Weezer of the first two albums. This is all home produced stuff by the way but if it ain’t the finished work of rock Weezer now are? That guitar solo coulda fooled me.
7. Put It There Pal – Bob Hope – Skin me, Dad, skin me!
8. Bad Kids – Black Lips – Did I miss the Black Lips as next big thing hype? They deserevd one if they never got it.
9. Holy Rollers For Love – Jakob Dylan – Sounds an awful lot like his Daddy circa New Morning.
10. Dischord – Fire Engines – Talk about hype? These guys weren’t. In 1981 they were simply the greatest band on Earth playing obstreperous art punk rock -all angles and agility.
11. Trouble – Bob Dylan – Born again Bobby and pretty damn good from a terrific and seriously underestimated album.
12. Until The Day I Die – Steve Earle – First rate bluegrass, that sounds like Del McCoury Band, and the song is just about perfect. I have no idea why I’ve missed this one for years.
13. Devon Song – The Only Ones – An obscurity and absolutely brilliant of course. Kinda weird by Only Ones pop/hard rock standards.
14. Born for This – Paramore – Yes folks, she was actually good back in the day.
15. Milwaukee, Here I Come – This sounds circa “White Lightening”, maybe a little later. A country honky tonkin’ drinkin’ my lover goodbyer.
16. Candidate – Joy Division – All I can each on this song today is the guitar notes runing thru it.
17. Can You See Me – The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Sounds just like the Spencer davis Group with a better guitarist.
18. Riding To Vanity Fair – Paul McCartney – From his last decent album a meh song.
19. Quiet Dog – Mos Def – Def can definitely rap, he reminds me of Q tip and here he is rapping to hand claps. Acapella rap -the way you like it?
20. Atom Tan – The Clash – An ordinary song off an ordinary album.
21. Yall Don’t Know – Public Enemy – I don’t think anybody has used scratching quite like this and this a fairly recent song.
22. Softly As I Leave You – Frank Sinatra – a) the song is crap, b) the orchestra schmaltzy and c) the back up singers and abomination.
23. Born In Time – Bob Dylan – Sometimes I wonder, when I think of the girl I’m with at the moment, I wonder about momentum about looking at these days from a further future: “If there is a mystery in the foggy world of destiny then you can take what’s left of me…”
24. in My Room (Demo) – The Beach Boys – Greil Marcus once dubbed this an ode to onanism… and he hadn’t heard this locked door demo.
25. Older Gods – Wu-Tang Clan – remind me, why didn’t we love Forever?
26. Problems – The Everly Brothers – Listen to the guitar for once: and here where Harrison got his melodic chord charges.
27. Take A Bow – Madonna – Co-written by Babyface, it is curdled cream love come to life.
28. Who says – John Mayer – What an ass
29. When The Sun Don’t Shine – Best Coast – She has only one song but it is a goodie.
30. In The Next Room – Neon Trees – As an album band they make good singles.