1. Right As Rain – Adele – Adele’s jazzy, Corrine, pop work out on the joys of manic depression, are a tongue in cheek reason to embrace your aloneness.
2. Public Image – Pearl Jam – Sure Vedder’s vocal is excellent and raw but it sure ain’t Lydon.
3. Down here (With the rest Of Us) – Social Distortion – This is like an American Billy Bragg, by which I mean it is a folkie relation to punk with a catchy melody and a political bent.
4. Digital Love – Daft Punk
5. Mutant – Wavves – Sometimes I think they are a Buzzcocks for the 21st century. I mean Another Music In A different Kitchen Buzzcocks, if not Spiral Scratch.
6. Lucky Number – Lene Lovitch – One of the great hooks of the new wave era.
7.All Die Young – Smith Westerns – I preferred it when I was streaming it. Now it sounds a little too high pitched.
8. The Things That You May Notice – Marnie Stern – Dunno, a bit to weird but it is the remix so…
9. Do It Again – Holy Ghost! – That’s Michael McDonald?
10. Separate vacations – The Hold Steady – Of all the Hold Steady songs in all the world, this is the Hold Steadiest.