10 Songs: Friday, February 20th, 2015

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The cribs

1 – Burning For No One – The Cribs – Yorkshire boys playing typical UK rock, and have been for a coupla decades and they do what they do quite well, the lick is sturdy and yet ot clingy and the verbal hook is sticky and quite smart – B+

2 – Untitled (How Does It Feel) – D’Angelo – one of the great tracks, a masterpiece of abstracted desire for funk understood by women somewhere else – A

3 – The Right Time – Brian Wilson – The song is slight, it sounds like minor league Wilson… still pretty good – B+

4 – Crush Me With Your Love – Kate Pierson – First iffy trick off the album, the vocal isn’t there and the song is a duffer – C+

5 – 1:59- Matt Whipkey – Nice little lick – B+

6 – Sweet Home – Pop Staples – deep blues by the late great – A-

7 – Don’t Let It Trouble Your Mind – Rhiannon Giddens – Folkie singer songwriter stuff – A-

8 – Friction – Imagine Dragons – It’s so easy, too easy, to dismiss these guys, this is half a good song with a slimy production – C+

9 – Edge Of A Revolution – Nickelback – Maybe it’s Chad Kroeger’s fault. Maybe if they got a half way decent singer – C-

10 – Next Year People – Colin Hay – A real bore with a terrible vocal – D+

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