1. El Blue del Ping Pong – Rita Indiana And Los Mistorios- Gagging to be remixed for a US dance audience, this Merengue rave up just about was at Central Park, on Saturday. Her US debut?
2. Real Estate – Elliott Smith – The gutitar solo sounds like it comes from another song, and the song proves, more than anything else, that a great songwriter let's nothing go to waste.
3. In The Meantime – Dolly Parton – "Let us not fear what is not clear", Dolly advices on the new albums lead off track. Her optimism is contagious and hard to deny.
4. In The Belly Of A Shark – Gallows – From 2007, back when these guys were gonna rewrite the face of punk.
5. Be The One – Llyod – IThis is gonna break pop, I just know it.
6. Love Song – Marianne Faithfull – Without Elton's piano or his distraught vocal, Bernie's lyric is clearer and what is clear is I don't like lines like "Have your eyes really seen" but "the opening doorr/what we came here for" keeps it respectable.
7. America – Rocky Business – The start is weird and jazz yand the sax sounds like Miles circa Sketches Of Spain filtered through Coltrane and the rap is a syncopated beauty. These guys are unreal.
8. Come Stay With Me – Marianne Faithfull – An ode to pre-marital sex.
9. The Lotus Symphony – Netsky
10,. Manhattan (I'm Done) – Old 97's – I bought three songs off the new one, two sucked and this is the third.