1. Jump To It – Aretha Franklin – Produced and co-written by the legendary and yet oddly shadowy Luther Vandross, perhaps because of his closeted homosexuality. The 1982 song is a masterpiece of pure disco (not funk) and gave Aretha her first hit since 1982 – A
2. Little Willy – Sweet – Part glam, part bubblegum, all nursery rhyme – A
3. Some Heavy Weather – Emma Ruth Rundle – A warped out weird off the beat umpteen tracked vocal art pop – B+
4. Deep Water – Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys – Yee hah – B+
5. Giving Him Something He Can Feel – Aretha Franklin – This isn’t the best song she ever recorded with Mayfield, it but through to the extended ending like a loving lusting declaration of intent, it is maybe the second best – A
6. Hey Boss Man – Manhattan Rob Walsh – Walsh brings it home on these bluesy hard drum rail against blue collar work – A-
7. Under Control – The Strokes – Five seconds of silence and then pow pow pow and the band launches inro the endgame of a broken romance – A
8. Club Foot – Kasabian – Their patented mix of Oasis and Primal Scream – B
9. Back To Living Again – Curtis Mayfield – Absolute positivism and Aretha to sing you out – A+
10. Sealed With A Kiss – Hank Marvin – There is a timeless, burnished, deeply felt tone to his guitar -still! – A
