1. Where The Boys Go – The Rolling Stones – If Jagger’s vocal wasn’t so whiny, this could be a lower echelon classic.
2. Miss The Mississippi – Merle Haggard – Off his last, if not final, undeniable masterpiece, The Peer Sessions, an American folk classic.
3. Telephone – The Morning Pages – Clever indie of Gaga great, remind me of Cake doing “I Will Survive”.
4. Heart And Soul – The Cleftones – First song I ever learnt on piano. Also the last song I ever learnt on piano.
5. Ease On Down The Road – Diana Ross And Michael Jackson – The repeating bass line imitates movement to perfection: it’s like an aural painting of Dorothy’s journey.
6. Pride (In The Name Of Love) – U2 – Every time I stumble on a U2 classic I have to reset a mindset set in place this past ten years.
7. Lenders In The Temple – Conor Oberst – I dunno what gives with Conor. I can’t read it. Maybe this was the height of his talents.
8. Working For The Man – PJ Harvey – Her low snake moan.
9. Sleazy – Ke$ha – Rhymes sleaze her with please her. Congrats to all.
10. Song Of The Century – Green Day – I don’t think this works on any level, a low fi dumb ass whatever.
11. A Wondrous Place – Marshall Crenshaw – The warmest blue imaginable.
12. Fall Silent (feat Nick Littlemore) – Groove Armada – Big dance sound by the blokes who dissed KOL big time.
13. Chapter 2 – Love Via Dance Machine – Whatever happened to these pop masters? I really thought they’d break big.
14. Live Until I Die – Wesley Wolfe – Sure sounds like a Holsapple-Stamey pop move to me.
15. Little Goody Two Shoes (Alternate take) – Elvis Costello – Alternate take? Early version of “Inch By Inch”
16. Whip It Up – E-40 – Nasty ass nursery rhyme
17. My Sweet Lord – Yim Yames – What a yo yo.
18. Shut Up And Drive – Rihanna – A song like this could make you a star.
19. You Know It’s You – Kirsty MacColl – A master craftswoman peaking.
20. Departure Boy – Diana Krall – Krall’s worst moment is her most honorably. A self-portrait where her husband’s shadow kept getting in the way.