1. Fast Cars – The Buzzcocks – "Sooner or later, you're gonna listen to Ralph Nader…" Pete Shelly's paean to caution is so uncool it is brilliant. The one think the US lacks is the UKs sense of self-deprecation and it is sorely needed in the only world power.
2. Techno Fan – The Wombats – Best song on the album, a tongue in cheek sneer at the world of weekend ravers.
3. Happy When It Rains – The Jesus And Mary Chain – I interviewed the brothers circa this song, off their best album, and offered Astral Weeks as a comparison. They agreed,. The truth is "I don't know why things vaporize and raise to the sky" prosody out of context, poetic metaphor for a troubled, romance… look at me enjoying something that feels like rain. Plus? They had moved past the feedback buzzed out melodic core of the earlier songs into a straight up masterpiece melodic harmony quasi folk-rock.
4. Perform This Way – Weird Al Yankovic – As always, the music isn't a a parody, it is a cover. The lyric is a tongue in cheek, gentle, playful Gaga description. Step back or he'll poke you with his dress.
5. John – Lil Wayne
6. I Am A Wanderer – Steve Earle – This is a lovely, timeless folk song, butchered by a dreary production.
7. No Rockefeller – Poly Styrene – Lovers rock rhythm plus horn on this gentle call for one world.
8. Unorthodox – Rap 2011
9. Circuital – My Morning Jacket – Hey, maybe they will never improve on Evil Urges? Maybe, it will always be crap like this.
10. Till The World Ends (Femme Fatale Remix) – Britney Spears – PS, I just got a tix for her show at the Meadowlands in August.