1. Alan Freeman Days – Robin Gibb – Fluff!!! The great BBC DJ, who died back in 2006, remembered from way back when, from his radio Luxembourg days, and Robin, who listened to him before the Bee Gees hit, is touched by the past. really, the entire album is about the past, and here Robin even samples Freeman. Man, there is something so depressing about this – A-
2. I Won’t be Alone Tonight – Melissa Etheridge – M.E. goes off in search of meow mix! – B+
3. Candle – Lydia Ainsworth – This is basic electronic tracks built into powerful mood music – B+
4. Sangria – Blake Shelton – Our patron saint of drinking does it again with this romantic booze up – B+
5. Broken Earth – Bleeps and bloops under muted guitars – B
6. Ba$$in – Yelle – These gys have been around in one way or another since 2000, and this song, off the preposterously addictive new album, is a sweet beats triumph – A-
7. Something About The Way You Look tonight (with Elton John) – Engleburt Humperdick – The definition of middle of the road – B
8. Stop Fucking Bunting – Puig The Destroyer –
no clock, only outs
but still you insist on,
giving them away
…what the fuck?
play for one (that’s all you’ll get)
stop fucking bunting
Grade: B+
9. One Lost Year- The Vaselines – apparently Jesus now wants them for his sunbeam on this alt rocker – B
10. Chatanoogoo Cho Cho – Herb Alpert – Drum machines and the horn – B+