1. Honey Bunny – Girls – Rocker with stampeding drums, ascending guitar lines, melodramatic middle 8, and a deeply emotional vocal.
2. Love At The Pier – Blondie – They never play this live. One of Blondies funniest and funnest tracks. It's not that Debbie loses her cool, it is that she doesn't have it to start with. If they play this tonight I will flip out.
3. Stranded With You – Wesley Wolfe – So anti-social, it dreams of every living thing being gone except for him and her. But it has a whirling layered sound like winds blowing and the slow drums like heartbeats.
3. Rex's Blues – Townes Van Zandt – Van Zandt's life catches up with him: "if it rained an ocean, I'd drink it dry", he warns and as he embraces his fate, sings this: "Tel my baby I said so long, tell my mother I did no wrong, tell my brother to watch his own, tell my friends to mour me none". And in the end he is "alone and low as low can be". That last line? A ringingly true evocation of alcoholism at its last stages.
4. You Do Or You Don't – Lindsey Buckingham – The second best song off his best album
5. The Golden State – John Doe – The one with Eddie Vedder and Corin Tucker.
6. The Way You Make Me Feel – Michael Jackson – His greatest post-Thriller moment, that falsetto at the end is so high it is like a sex fueled queal.
7. Stero Hearts – Gym Class Heroes – Great metaphor passionately laid out.
8. Red Nation – Game – Lil Wayne is better than anything but the best on his album.
9. Force A Smile – Sleeper Agent – I swear they remind me of a garage rock X
10. Celebration – Das Racist – Obstreperous arty pop rap, so off kilter you're gonna topple for it.