1 – I Remember You – Frank Ifield – Love the harmonica which works a hook, underlining the words, and Ifield, who could yodel like nobody’s business on this apotheosis of easy listening, and a hit in both the US and the UK in 1962. It remains a clearly beneficent idea perfectly executed – A
2 – One Bad Apple – The Osmonds – George Jackson had originally written it for the Jackson 5, who turned it down, and thereby gave the white J5 the only time they ever trounced the legendary boy band – A
3 – Medicine Man – Dr Dre – Unspeakably terrible track and the penultimate song on the album, I am pretty sick of Eminem by now, the rape line is dumb and the hook, “doctor’s orders, go fuck yourself” is so mean spirited, I’d prefer some badass violence – D
4 – Do My Dance – Lil B And Chance The Rapper – Lil B calls Chance a legend and he is right, he also raps “I love my homies but I fuck their bitches.” And it is still good because,,w ell, Chance is a legend – B+
5 – Senorita – Vince Staples – His big time breakthrough, and you can hear why: this is hard focussed flow – A
6 – Blood And Concrete – Tomas Doncker – A new one for the solo album and it is excellent, a sort of reggae inflected blues funk with horns on the state of the streets for black America. Yet another masterpiece for what should be a huge album for him – A
7 – Confused – Kid Cudi – Off his upcoming album, the Kid goes grunge and not bad at all – B
8 – Men Today – Health – One of two albums people think I underestimated last week(yes, I did mean yesterday) and the drums are truly excellent, and this one ain’t half bad – B+
9 – Yes All Cops – Worriers – This is a tremendous piece of political dissent, their best song – A
10 – Susan When She Tried – Elvis Presley – Elvis goes Americana with the Statler Brothers cover – A
